What a short time separates Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pechorin! First quarter and forties of the 19th century. And yet these are two different eras, separated by an unforgettable event in Russian history - the uprising of the Decembrists.

Pushkin and Lermontov managed to create works that reflect the spirit of these eras, works that touched upon the problems of the fate of the young noble intelligentsia, who were unable to find application for their forces.

Herzen called Pechorin "Onegin's younger brother", so what do these people have in common and how do they differ?

Before becoming a “young rake”, he received a traditional upbringing and an extensive, but rather superficial education. Because he ended up being able to “perfectly” speak French, dance the mazurka easily, and “bow casually,” “the world thought he was smart and very nice.” However, quickly fed up with the fruitless fuss of secular life, Onegin begins to be weary of it, but finds nothing in return.

Realizing the worthlessness of the existence of secular people, Onegin begins to despise them, withdraws into himself, indulges in the “Russian melancholy”. Living only for himself, not taking into account the feelings and experiences of other people, Onegin commits a number of unworthy acts. By the time of his acquaintance with him, Pushkin noted in Onegin “an inimitable strangeness”, “a sharp chilled mind”, “an involuntary devotion to dreams”, an internal gap and misunderstanding between him and the people around him. Despite deep contempt for the "light", Onegin remains dependent on public opinion, and as a result, kills his friend Lensky.

Egoism leads the “rake of the ardent” to a heavy spiritual drama and discord with oneself.

We do not know much about Pechorin's past, mainly from the pages of his own diary, from his conversations with other people. We learn that Pechorin’s “soul is corrupted by light”: “From childhood, everyone read signs of bad properties on my face that were not there; but they were supposed - and they were born. Now, people around often do not understand either Pechorin's thoughts or his actions, and he considers himself head and shoulders above those around him. Unlike Onegin, Pechorin does not shy away from people, does not avoid contact with them, but, on the contrary, becomes an extremely subtle psychologist, able to understand not only other people's actions and thoughts, but also feelings.

Unfortunately, communication with him most often brings people and even himself only suffering and dissatisfaction. Unlike Onegin, Pechorin is not yet tired of life, he interferes in everything, is interested in many things, but he is not able to truly love and be friends. And if only Tatyana suffers from Pushkin's love for Onegin, then Pechorin brings misfortune to all the women he encounters: Bela, Vera, Princess Mary, even the smugglers' friend.

Onegin's problem is in the inability to make his life interesting, bright, to fill it with significant events. Pechorin is concerned with the question of the purpose of his own life, its meaning. The consciousness of lost opportunities constantly haunts him, because his belief in his “high purpose” does not find real, confirmation.

Both one and the other value their freedom, liberty, but it turns out that they too often sacrifice to her what is really dear to them.

Differences in the fates and characters of the heroes are explained by the differences in eras: the life of Russia on the eve of the December uprising and the severe political reaction after the defeat of the Decembrists. Both Onegin and Pechorin belong to the type of “superfluous people”, that is, people for whom there was neither place nor business in the society around them. And yet, even despising the environment, Onegin and Pechorin were the children of this society, that is, the heroes of their time.

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Comparative characteristics of Onegin and Pechorin

A. Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" and Lermontov's prose work "A Hero of Our Time" share a short time interval. The first work was created in 1823-1830, the second - in 1938-40. And the novel "Princess Ligovskaya", in which Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin also appears, was created even earlier. We can consider the main literary characters of these works - Onegin and Pechorin - contemporaries.

In this article, we will try to make a comparison between these literary heroes, in a comparative description of Onegin and Pechorin, to determine their similar and different features.

What is common between Pechorin and Onegin

Both literary heroes belong to the nobility. At the moment they are described, they are almost the same age. Literary criticism ranked them among the "superfluous" people. Which in relation to Pechorin is not entirely fair. Both of them have a solid experience of secular life, they feel disappointed, consider themselves to have known people and the world. Pushkin writes about Onegin:

Pechorin was not hypocritical. On the contrary, he was too straightforward, and thus made enemies for himself.

Differences in living conditions

Pushkin describes in detail the character, occupation, education of Eugene Onegin, but did not say a word about his appearance. Most likely, he was very attractive appearance. Not so different among themselves - this is Pushkin talking about Lensky. So we can conclude that Onegin was similar in height and appearance to Lensky, about whom we know that he had black wavy hair. Onegin was "cut in the latest fashion" and also, most likely, was a dark-haired and brown-eyed man.

About the appearance of Pechorin, Lermontov gave a detailed description:

Eugene Onegin was born in St. Petersburg and was educated at home. In his family, he is the only son and heir. Grigory Pechorin was born and lived until the age of 19 in Moscow. He has a sister, Varenka, and a mother, Tatyana Petrovna. He studied in boarding schools and at Moscow University. But he was a student, though capable, but negligent. He did not appear for the final exams, because at that moment he fell in love with Vera R, who at that time was still a girl.

When both families - the Pechorins and R. - received an invitation from a common relative to come to the estate near Moscow, Pechorin deceived his mother and missed the exams. The relatives decided that he should be sent to a cadet school, but Georges persuaded his mother to let him go to the N-sky regiment. Thus, the difference between the characters is observed in upbringing and education.

Onegin is pedantic, changes outfits several times, monitors his appearance

Pechorin is not so scrupulous about outfits, but he is neat and clean. It serves, despite the presence of a good condition. His parents have a total of 2 thousand souls in three provinces: Saratov, Voronezh and Kaluga. For this reason, it is premature to rank him among the superfluous people. He conscientiously performs his duties. He is brave, smart. At 23, he is an officer.

Onegin's father during his lifetime lived in grand style, and died, leaving his son only debts. But Uncle Yevgeny left him a legacy of the village to which he arrived after receiving a letter from the manager. At some point, life in the village seemed to him new, unusual, but very soon he got bored here too.

By his turn of mind, Pechorin was an adventurer, an adventurer. He has no time to be bored. His life is filled with danger. Although he also feels satiated to some extent. Pechorin had a penchant for satire. In "Princess Ligovskaya" there is such a description:

Onegin never served anywhere. His whole life before coming to the village was to take care of himself, attend social events and turn women's heads. He swam with the flow of life, not trying to radically change something in it. He was invited to balls, he was driving, the manager wrote to him, he came to the village and settled there. He received a duel challenge from a more determined friend. He felt that the duel was complete nonsense, but he did not have the courage to stop it. Onegin fired almost without aiming. The death of Lensky was a fatal accident.

Pechorin behaves quite differently in a duel. True, in his situation the circumstances were quite different. He waited until the very end for Grushnitsky to apologize. Not wait. He shot as accurately as possible, to kill.

The similarity of both literary heroes - both Onegin and Pechorin - lies in the fact that both of them are manipulators. They enjoy manipulating people without thinking about the consequences. Onegin loved women, but he was afraid of marriage like hell. He understood that it was impossible to play with Tatyana, just as he flirted with married women. He did not try to make Tatyana fall in love with him. It happened independently of him. But he hastened to reject her love and did not go to the Larins' estate anymore.

Pechorin was more cruel. He made young ladies fall in love with him. Like how he fell in love with Mary and then cruelly rejected her. He fell in love with Bella on a dare. True, he liked Bella, but he treated her like a beautiful toy. At first he encouraged her brother to kidnap her from the house, seduced her, but soon began to get bored around her. And if Bella had not died, most likely, he would have left her, having left "on official business."

In the life of Pechorin there was love from his youth. This is Vera. And it seems that love for her glimmered in his soul all the time of her two marriages. Onegin's love turned out to be late.

How are Onegin and Pechorin similar? Only because the nobles, young, flirt with women. But this is how most of the Russian nobility lived. Belinsky considers Pechorin the Onegin of our time. Similar conditions, similar circumstances of life give rise to a similarity of characters. People in similar situations behave in the same way for the most part.

Lermontov puts his hero in a more difficult position. The action of Eugene Onegin develops in a calm village, where you can not even communicate with your neighbors. Onegin goes with the flow. Pechorin constantly finds himself in difficult, critical circumstances, in danger that threatens his life. In the end, Pechorin dies in Persia. Pechorin is trying to fight life, to swim against the current. This also distinguishes him from the Pushkin hero.

In order to fully understand the character of the “extra person” type, a comparative description of Onegin and Pechorin is necessary. These heroes have common features that belonged to the representatives of the "superfluous people", but there are differences in these images.

Similarities

The hero of Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" and the hero of M. Yu. Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time" when compared have many similar traits of character and lifestyle.

Both characters are about the same age, both were born in St. Petersburg and brought up in luxury. Onegin and Pechorin own money that allows them to have fun. However, they quickly get bored with them. Pushkin's and Lermontov's heroes feel boredom in society, which is what distinguishes them from other nobles.

The similarity of Pechorin and Onegin also lies in the fact that both of them could seduce women. But the women heroes quickly got bored, although both paid them a lot of attention. For Gregory and Eugene, freedom was important, so they did not want to connect their lives with women. The character of Pechorin and Onegin showed similarities even in some actions: the scene of Pechorin's refusal of Princess Mary's feelings resembles Onegin's explanation with Tatyana Larina. And Pechorin's meeting with Vera in the Caucasus, which revived the hero's feelings, is similar to Onegin's meeting with Tatyana in St. Petersburg.

Neither Pechorin nor Onegin had real friends, because they did not know how to appreciate other people. Eugene Onegin has a friend, Vladimir Lensky, whom he kills in a duel. Pechorin kills Grushnitsky, whom he did not love from the very beginning, but with whom he spoke as a friend. Pechorin was indifferent to the meeting with his old friend Maxim Maksimych.

By nature, the characters in the novels of A. S. Pushkin and M. Yu. Lermontov were selfish, which leads them to an unhappy life. They cannot find themselves in life. Pechorin and Onegin are not understood by their environment, they are “superfluous” people. These two characters were alone in the crowd.

Pechorin and Onegin are really similar to each other, which is why V. G. Belinsky calls the central character of the novel “A Hero of Our Time” “Onegin of Our Time”.

Differences

Despite the fact that there are many similarities between Pechorin and Onegin, they have the main difference: their attitude towards their own lives. Eugene Onegin misses, but does not look for himself in life, he does not see the true reasons for his behavior. Grigory Pechorin, on the other hand, constantly emphasizes that he is a selfish nature who lives only for himself. He understands why he cannot find happiness with women, why he cannot find his place in life. However, he, unlike Eugene Onegin, is trying to find new hobbies that could turn a simple existence into a real life.

M. Yu. Lermontov uses the technique of psychologism in his novel "The Hero of Our Time", the reader sees the thoughts and experiences of the protagonist. The basis of Pechorin's outpourings is his diary. There are no diary entries in Eugene Onegin, but there are books with Onegin's remarks that Tatiana finds, but the reader cannot see the true thoughts of the hero from these pencil sketches.

table

In order to most clearly show the common and different features of Pechorin and Onegin, we present a table.

Similarities
	members of the secular society
	Bored society
	Bored women
	rejection of marriage
	Love for freedom
	Similarity of actions
	Lack of real friends
	Loneliness in the crowd
	"extra people"
	Understands own "I"	Doesn't think about his own life
	Looking for new emotions from life
	Trying to find himself in life	Doesn't try to find his place in life
	Psychologism	Lack of psychologism

This article, which will help write the essay “Comparative Characteristics of Onegin and Pechorin”, will consider the main similarities and differences between the heroes of the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin and the novel “A Hero of Our Time” by M. Yu. Lermontov and formulate a conclusion in the form comparison table.

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The undoubted similarity of the images of Eugene Onegin and Grigory Pechorin was noted by one of the first V.G. Belinsky. “Their dissimilarity among themselves is much less than the distance between Onega and Pechora ... Pechorin is the Onegin of our time,” the critic wrote.

The lifetime of the characters is different. Onegin lived in the era of Decembrism, free-thinking, rebellions. Pechorin is the hero of the era of timelessness. Common to the great works of Pushkin and Lermontov is the depiction of the spiritual crisis of the noble intelligentsia. The best representatives of this class turned out to be dissatisfied with life, removed from social activities. They had no choice but to waste their strength aimlessly, turning into "superfluous people."

The formation of characters, the conditions for the education of Onegin and Pechorin, no doubt, are similar. These are people of the same circle. The similarity of the heroes lies in the fact that both of them have gone from agreement with society and themselves to the denial of light and deep dissatisfaction with life.

“But sooner the feelings in him cooled down,” Pushkin writes about Onegin, who “fell ill” with the “Russian melancholy.” Pechorin is also very early "... despair was born, covered with courtesy and a good-natured smile."

They were well-read and educated people, which put them above the rest of the young people of their circle. Education and natural curiosity of Onegin is found in his disputes with Lensky. One list of topics worth it:

... Tribes of past treaties,

The fruits of science, good and evil,

And age-old prejudices

And fatal secrets of the coffin,

Fate and life...

Evidence of Onegin's high education is his extensive personal library. Pechorin, on the other hand, said this about himself: “I began to read, to study - science was also tired.” Possessing remarkable abilities, spiritual needs, both failed to realize themselves in life and squandered it for nothing.

In their youth, both heroes were fond of carefree secular life, both succeeded in the "science of tender passion", in the knowledge of "Russian young ladies". Pechorin says about himself: “... when I got to know a woman, I always accurately guessed whether she would love me ... I never became a slave to my beloved woman, on the contrary, I always acquired invincible power over their will and heart ... Is that why I never really do not I value ... "Neither the love of the beautiful Bela, nor the serious enthusiasm of the young Princess Mary could melt the coldness and rationality of Pechorin. It only brings misfortune to women.

The love of the inexperienced, naive Tatyana Larina also leaves Onegin indifferent at first. But later, our hero, at a new meeting with Tatyana, now a secular lady and a general, realizes that he has lost in the face of this extraordinary woman. Pechorin is not at all capable of a great feeling. In his opinion, "love is satiated pride."

Both Onegin and Pechorin value their freedom. Eugene writes in his letter to Tatyana:

Your hateful freedom

I didn't want to lose.

Pechorin bluntly declares: "... twenty times my life, I will even put my honor at stake, but I will not sell my freedom."

The indifference to people inherent in both, disappointment and boredom affect their attitude towards friendship. Onegin is friends with Lensky "there is nothing to do." And Pechorin says: “... I am not capable of friendship: of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although often neither of them admits this to himself; I can’t be a slave, and in this case commanding is tedious work, because at the same time it is necessary to deceive ... ”And he demonstrates this in his cold attitude towards Maxim Maksimych. The words of the old staff captain sound helplessly: “I have always said that there is no use in someone who forgets old friends!”

Both Onegin and Pechorin, disappointed in the life around them, are critical of the empty and idle "secular mob". But Onegin is afraid of public opinion, accepting Lensky's challenge to a duel. Pechorin, shooting with Grushnitsky, takes revenge on society for unfulfilled hopes. In essence, the same evil trick led the heroes to the duel. Onegin "swore Lensky to infuriate and take revenge in order" for a boring evening at the Larins'. Pechorin says the following: “I lied, but I wanted to defeat him. I have an innate passion to contradict; my whole life has been only a tribute to sad and unfortunate contradictions of heart or mind.

The tragedy of feeling one's own uselessness is deepened in both by an understanding of the uselessness of one's life. Pushkin bitterly exclaims about this:

But it's sad to think that in vain

We were given youth

What cheated on her all the time,

That she deceived us;

That our best wishes

That our fresh dreams

Decayed in rapid succession,

Like leaves in autumn rotten.

The hero of Lermontov seems to echo him: “My colorless youth passed in the struggle with myself and the world; Fearing ridicule, I buried my best qualities in the depths of my heart: they died there ... Having learned well the light and springs of life, I became a moral cripple.

Pushkin's words about Onegin, when

Killing a friend in a duel

Having lived without a goal, without labor

Until the age of twenty-six

Languishing in the idleness of leisure.,

he "began wandering without a goal", can also be attributed to Pechorin, who also killed the former "friend", and his life continued "without a goal, without labor." Pechorin during the trip reflects: “Why did I live? For what purpose was I born?

Feeling "immense forces in his soul", but completely wasting them in vain, Pechorin is looking for death and finds it "from a random bullet on the roads of Persia." Onegin, at the age of twenty-six, was also "hopelessly tired of life." He exclaims:

Why am I not pierced by a bullet,

Why am I not a sickly old man?

Comparing the description of the life of the heroes, one can be convinced that Pechorin is a more active person with demonic features. “To be the cause of suffering and joy for someone, without having any positive right to do so - is this not the sweetest food of our pride?” - says the hero of Lermontov. As a person, Onegin remains a mystery to us. No wonder Pushkin characterizes him like this:

A sad and dangerous eccentric,

Creation of hell or heaven

This angel, this arrogant demon,

What is he? Is it an imitation

An insignificant ghost?

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Both Onegin and Pechorin are selfish, but thinking and suffering heroes. Despising the idle secular existence, they do not find ways and opportunities to freely, creatively resist it. In the tragic outcomes of the individual fates of Onegin and Pechorin, the tragedy of "superfluous people" shines through. The tragedy of the “superfluous person”, in whatever era he appears, is at the same time the tragedy of the society that gave birth to him.

In life, things don't always work out the way you want them to. This is what we see in the real world, this is what the great books teach us. I liked the proposed topic, because I really love A.S. Pushkin, and by reading the novel "Eugene Onegin", you can study not only the poem, but also the history of the noble society of the XIX century.

The main characters of both works are young people. What was the dream of the younger generation of that time? Eugene Onegin, being a charming, handsome nobleman, received a “French” upbringing, however, the author emphasizes not strong abilities for mathematical sciences, foreign languages, but more for the “science of tender passion”, lived an ordinary wild life of the younger generation: he followed fashion, shone on balls, spent time in theaters in the company of rake. But, in the end, all this “tinsel” of life bothers him, he is disappointed both in lives and in people. In his soul - emptiness, coldness, indifference. He is sick. And the name of this disease is "spleen".
Onegin begins to shun society, despises everyone, is arrogant with everyone. This would have continued if not for the death of his uncle and his subsequent acquaintance with Lensky and the Larin family.

Larins are wonderful, open, kind and simple people. Lensky is an educated man who studied in Germany, a romantic poet with lofty ideals and a romantic soul, and capable of great love. The Larin family met Eugene Onegin with parental care, as a native person. Little by little, his soul began to thaw, but on the whole he remained the same. But after all, the tragedy of the work is when Tatyana Larina fell in love with Onegin, but was rejected and ridiculed by him.

Tatyana dreamed of finding a spouse in Onegin, she expects sublime love from him, being well-read French novels, she immediately sees in him her dream "of a romantic hero, but she was mistaken and, in the end, was forced to marry an" old man ", a rich man with a high rank. Lensky dreamed of a wedding with his beloved Olga, but dies in a stupid and senseless duel from a friend's bullet.

Larina's old people dream of a calm old age, peace, happiness for their daughters, but reality contradicts dreams. Eugene Onegin is forced to wander around different countries after a duel with Lensky, but life again presents a surprise: at the ball he meets a luxurious, secular lady, a trendsetter who, among other things, is in the center of attention of all high society and shines with her beauty, manners, with his mind and recognizes Tatyana in her: “Is it really the same Tatyana?” He was amazed, his heart was pierced by love, he was sick with love!

Onegin dreamed of Tatyana, suffered, realized what a big mistake he had made, not appreciating her true virtues in her: kindness, purity of soul, inner beauty. But Tatyana Larina is noble and honest, she cannot betray her husband, although she still loves Eugene Onegin. This work has been analyzed by thousands of critics from different countries, so it remains relevant today. Not only as a study of the high society of that time and the customs of Moscow, St. Petersburg, provincial Russia of those times, but also as the relationship between a man and a woman.

Thus, Onegin's side appears here, as an "extra person" that no one needs.

The same motif of the “extra person” is also described in Lermontov’s work “The Hero of Our Time”, where the inner world of the hero Pechorin, who lives in a different generation, is similar to the world of Onegin in that he is also disappointed in life, gloomy, cynical, strange.

Pechorin, just like Onegin, personifies a whole generation of his time, but includes such aspects of character as anger, envy, at the same time as generosity and kindness. The whole tragedy of Pechorin is that he cannot love, find application for his strengths and talents, he would like to serve the Motherland, but Russia was in a state of reaction, any free thoughts were punished, and he rushed about in search of application of himself. This unites him with Onegin, since he, too, could participate in the development of Russia, and not rush about in the bustle of life.

This is a potential hero who could bring a lot of benefit to society, but there was no need for this, and he wasted his energy on stupid, thoughtless, and discrediting actions: a duel with Grushnitsky, attitude towards Princess Mary and Bela. The tragedy of Pechorin, like the tragedy of Onegin, is the tragedy of many of their contemporaries, similar to them in their way of thinking, in their position in society. This is the tragedy of all progressive-minded nobles who entered into life after the defeat of the Decembrists.