Onegin and Pechorin.

Probably, it is very rare in the history of literature, when two literary geniuses are born almost simultaneously and almost in the same place. Pushkin and Lermontov. This was the time of the birth of Great Russian Literature and at the same time the beginning of the great crisis of Russian society.
The crisis of society is best manifested in its ideals. Both Pushkin and Lermontov understood this perfectly, therefore in their main works - the novels "Eugene Onegin" and "A Hero of Our Time", they strove to manifest these ideals in their main characters - Onegin and Pechorin.
Lermontov reflected his understanding of the image of Pechorin both in the title of the novel and in the preface. For Lermontov, "A Hero of Our Time" is "a portrait made up of the vices of our time, in their full development." However, the author chose the term “hero” for the name, and not some other term - “antihero”, “villain”, etc. What is it? Ridicule, irony or author's whim? It seems to me - neither one nor the other, nor the third ... In fact, Lermontov depicts the hero of the society that gave birth to him, shows those qualities that are most respected in this society, most valued.
This is precisely where the deep continuity of the image of Pechorin with his literary predecessor, Eugene Onegin, lies.
On the one hand, they have a lot in common. Fate led them along similar paths: both of them were the "cream" of secular society, both were mortally tired of it, both despised this society.
Their life coincided for some time not by accident: obviously, this was the lot of any rich and handsome young rake:

“What's more: the light decided
That he is smart and very nice "

But this life, which in Eugene Onegin was the content of the novel, remained for Pechorin only in his memories. We can say that Pechorin was once Onegin, but in the novel he is already different, and this difference is the most interesting moment in the comparative analysis of these images, since it allows one to assess the tendencies of the movement of society, the gradual shift of its ideals.
In Onegin, we still find, if not compassion and repentance, then at least a cold, mental awareness that they should be. Onegin is still capable, if not of love, then at least of passion, albeit extremely selfish, but ardent.
Pechorin is not even capable of such manifestations of human feelings. He tries to awaken them in himself and cannot:
“As I didn’t look in my chest for even a spark of love for dear Mary, but my efforts were in vain”
In his soul, even love for life (and therefore for himself) is absent. If Onegin still lived, "languishing in the inaction of leisure", then Pechorin lives simply "out of curiosity: expecting something new ..."
However, Pechorin, unlike Onegin, is able to think in spiritual categories, his indifference is close to despair (it is no coincidence that he is looking for death). He suffers from his indifference, he sees him!
Onegin, in this sense, is completely blind, and at the same time he does not notice his blindness. There is no despair in his indifference. His passion for Tatiana is saturated with selfishness, but he does not notice this and takes her for love.
According to Belinsky, "Lermontov's Pechorin is Onegin of our time." But not in the sense that they are similar, but in the sense that one is a logical continuation of the second.
Secular society is rapidly losing its last ideals: neither love, nor compassion, nor honor are valued any more. There is only one curiosity left: what if there is something "sharp", "tickling" the nerves that can amuse and distract at least for a while ...

Comparing the images of Onegin and Pechorin, we see what a terrible end to such innocent hobbies as idleness, selfishness, pursuit of fashion, and how they can be reborn into such a terrible state of mind, which is commonly called spiritual death.

Unfortunately, all this is not alien to our society. And it's scary if we, like Onegin, are not able to discern our inferiority, and we look down on Onegin: we are not like that - we go to theaters, discos, surf the Internet, in general, we live a full-fledged cultural life. And we do not notice how this complacency inevitably leads to the same devastated indifference to everything except himself, to which Onegin came, and to the same unrepentant hardness of heart, to which Pechorin came.

Truly, the images of Pechorin and Onegin are the images of heroes and our time.

To fully understand the character of the "superfluous person" type, a comparative characteristic of Onegin and Pechorin is necessary. These characters have common features that belonged to the representatives of "extra people", but there are differences in these images.

Similarities

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

Both characters are about the same age, both were born in St. Petersburg and raised in luxury. Onegin and Pechorin own money that allows them to have fun. However, they quickly bore them. Pushkin and Lermontov's heroes feel boredom in society, which makes them different from other nobles.

The similarity between Pechorin and Onegin also lies in the fact that both of them could seduce women. But the women of the heroes quickly got bored, although both paid them great attention. Freedom was important for Gregory and Eugene, so they did not want to connect their lives with women. The character of Pechorin and Onegin showed a similarity even in some of their actions: the scene of Pechorin's refusal to feel Princess Mary resembles Onegin's explanation with Tatyana Larina. And the meeting of Pechorin with Vera in the Caucasus, which revived the feelings of the hero, 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 communicated as a friend. Pechorin was indifferent to the meeting with his old friend Maxim Maksimych.

By their 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 alike, which is why VG 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 to their own life. Eugene Onegin is bored, 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, unlike Eugene Onegin, he is trying to find new hobbies that could turn a simple existence into real life.

M. Yu. Lermontov uses the method of psychologism in his novel "A 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, which Tatyana finds, but the reader cannot see the hero's true thoughts from these pencil sketches.

Table

To most clearly show the general and different features of Pechorin and Onegin, we present a table.

Similarities
	Representatives of the secular society
	Bored by society
	Bored women
	Rejection of marriage
	Love for freedom
	Similarity of actions
	Lack of real friends
	Loneliness in the crowd
	"Extra people"
	Understands his own self	Doesn't think about his own life
	Seeks new emotions from life
	Trying to find herself 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 the poems "Eugene Onegin" by A. Pushkin and the novel "A Hero of Our Time" by M. Yu. Lermontov and formulate the conclusion in the form comparison table.

Product test

What a short period 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 for Russian history - the Decembrist uprising.

Pushkin and Lermontov were able to create works reflecting the spirit of these eras, works in which the problems of the fate of the young noble intelligentsia, unable to find an application for their forces, were touched upon.

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. Due to the fact that in the end he could “perfectly” express himself in French, easily dance a mazurka and “bow at ease”, “the light decided that he was smart and very nice”. However, quickly fed up with the fruitless vanity of social life, Onegin begins to feel weary about it, but finds nothing in return.

Realizing all the worthlessness of the existence of secular people, Onegin begins to despise them, withdraws into himself, indulges in the “Russian blues”. Living only by himself, not taking into account the feelings and experiences of other people, Onegin commits a number of unworthy acts. By the time he met him, Pushkin noted in Onegin “inimitable strangeness,” “a sharp, chilled mind,” “involuntary devotion to dreams,” an inner break 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 he kills his friend Lensky.

Selfishness leads the "rake of the ardent" to a heavy emotional 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 tainted by light”: “From my very childhood, everyone read on my face signs of bad qualities that were not there; but they were supposed - and they were born ”. Now, those around him often do not understand either Pechorin's thoughts or his actions, and he considers himself a cut 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 Tatiana suffers from Pushkin's love for Onegin, then Pechorin brings misfortune to all the women he encounters: Bele, Vera, Princess Mary, even the friend of the smugglers.

Onegin's problem is the inability to make his life interesting, bright, fill it with significant events. Pechorin is concerned about the purpose of his own life, its meaning. The consciousness of the 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 epochs: the life of Russia on the eve of the December uprising and a difficult 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 no place or work 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.

(No Ratings Yet)

Related posts:

1. What a short period 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 for Russian history - the Decembrist uprising. Pushkin and Lermontov managed to create works reflecting the spirit of these eras, works in which the problems of the fate of the young noble intelligentsia, unable to find [...] ...
2. In the literature of every nation, there are works whose heroes, positive or negative, a person remembers all his life, and there are characters that are erased from human memory over time. If we talk about Russian literature, the works of M. Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time" and A. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" are outstanding novels, the main characters of which are Grigory Pechorin and Eugene [...] ...
3. Sadly I look at the naked generation! Its coming - il empty, il dark, Meanwhile, under the burden of knowledge and doubt, In inaction it will grow old. M. Yu. Lermontov “Eugene Onegin” PushkinA was for this, in his words, the fruit of “the mind of cold observations and the heart of sorrowful remarks”. Belinsky in his article “Eugene Onegin” called [...] ...
4. Sadly I look at our generation! His future is either empty, or dark, Meanwhile, under the burden of knowledge and doubt, In inaction it will grow old. M. Yu. Lermontov The novels by A. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” and M. Yu. Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time” show the dramatic fate of typical representatives of the noble intelligentsia of the first half of the 19th century. The main characters of these [...] ...
5. In the poetic introduction to the novel “Eugene Onegin”, Pushkin writes that his work is the fruit of “the mind of cold observations and the heart of sorrowful notes”. Belinsky in his article “Eugene Onegin” called this work “the encyclopedia of Russian life”. And in fact, in this novel, as in a magic crystal, the whole Russian life is reflected: both the upper world, and the small nobility, and [...] ...
6. Let's try to compare the images of two literary characters: Onegin and Pechorin. It is much easier to compare the characters of the same work or, in extreme cases, the writer. But talking about the characters created by Pushkin and Lermontov is as difficult as it is interesting. These brilliant artists created images of heroes characteristic of their time. Onegin is a young man of the first quarter, and Pechorin is from the forties of the XIX [...] ...
7. V.G.Belinsky sees similarities between Onegin and Pechorin in very many qualities. He directly declares about Pechorin: “This is Onegin of our time, a hero of our time. Their dissimilarity is much less than the distance between Onego and Pechora ”(Onega and Pechora are large northern rivers). The differences, however, he discovers are also quite significant, at least in [...] ...
8. The source of development of society at all times has been people's displeasure with their own lives and social foundations. On the threshold of the nineteenth century in Russia, among the progressive noble youth, unconsciously, gradually began to feel dissatisfaction with the surrounding reality. Typical representatives of this circle are Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky - the heroes of Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin". The main common feature of Onegin and Lensky [...] ...
9. Tatiana is Pushkin's favorite heroine in his novel "Eugene Onegin". She is the ideal of a real Russian girl, the poet's ideas about the Russian national character are associated with her. Pushkin truly embodied in Tatiana the Russian woman of that time. She grew up in a village, and at the same time absorbed Russian customs, traditions and historical rites, the more she [...] ...
10. Russian classical literature is recognized all over the world. She is rich in many artistic discoveries. One of these discoveries is the image of the “superfluous person”, “invented” by Russian writers of the 19th century. The most famous "superfluous people" in Russian literature were Eugene Onegin from the novel by Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" and Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin from the novel "Hero of Our Time" by M. Yu. Lermontov. Evgeny […]...
11. They got along. Wave and stone, Poems and prose, ice and fire Not so different among themselves. AS Pushkin, ”E. ABOUT." Pushkin is a great poet and writer of the 19th century. He enriched Russian literature with many wonderful works. Pushkin's most important work was his novel “E. O. "A novel in verse" E. ABOUT." rightly considered an “encyclopedia of Russian life.” The author reflected in [...] ...
12. The images of Pechorin and Onegin are similar not only in semantic similarity. VG Belinsky noted the spiritual kinship of Onegin and Pechorin: "Their dissimilarity is much less than the distance between Onego and Pechora ... Pechorin is Onegin of our time." The novels "Eugene Onegin" and "A Hero of Our Time" were written at different times, and the time of action of these works is different. Eugene lived in [...] ...
13. I am writing to you-A. S. Pushkin Belinsky called the novel by AS Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” “the most sincere creation of the poet” - sounds almost like an axiom, so the critic has correctly identified the wonderful aspects of the novel in verse. There is no person in Russia who has not remembered at least a line from “Eugene Onegin”, letters from Tatiana and Onya are memorized by heart, they are an example [...] ...
14. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the greatest poet of all times and peoples. His brilliant works have excited readers for many generations. But his poems are still young, interesting and relevant. The largest and most interesting work of Alexander Sergeevich is the novel "Eugene Onegin". Belinsky called it “the encyclopedia of Russian life”. Indeed, the novel is versatile, it gives an idea of \u200b\u200bthe life of Russia in the first quarter of the 19th century. But me [...] ...
15. EDUCATION Onegin: “A poor Frenchman, so that the child would not be exhausted, taught him everything in jest, did not bother with strict morality” - he was simply educated, without much stress, but enough to enter society. "He could express himself in French and wrote." “What more to you? The world decided that he was smart and very nice. ” "We all learned a little something and somehow." [...] ...
16. Since the second half of the 19th century, primarily due to fiction, the concept of “an extra person” has come into use (for the first time this term was used by AS Pushkin in one of his rough sketches for “Onegin”). A whole series of works of art appears, the heroes of which are united by a special status given to them in society - “superfluous people” who were critical of [...] ...
17. Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin is a complex collective image of society of his time - the thirties of the nineteenth century. Pechorin is lonely and does not find something to do, occupation. He is bored because no social entertainment interests him. He does not succumb to the destructive influence of the light, but at the same time he thinks himself chosen for some great cause, not exchanging for a normal one [...] ...
18. In the work of Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time", or rather, in one of its parts, there are two heroes, one of which is the most important, and exists throughout the entire novel. This person is Pechorin. Grigory Pechorin is a person who is not subject to anyone. Nobody was able to see through this person, and also, to understand him to the end. After all, Pechorin - [...] ...
19. In the story “Princess Mary” Pechorin says about himself: “My whole life was only a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to my heart or reason”, “there are two people in me: one lives in the full sense of the word, the other thinks and judges him”, “alone they respect me worse, others better than I really ... Some will say: he was a good fellow, others [...] ...
20. I. The first socio-psychological novel with a detective plot in Russian literature. II. A novel about the lost life of an outstanding personality. Diagnosis and history of the "disease" of the time and society. 1. The role of composition in revealing the “history of the human soul”. Everything is subordinated to one task - to explain Pechorin's riddle: plot, plot, psychological portrait, confession as a means of self-characterization, hero's diaries, characters of different narrators, author's prefaces. [...] ...
21. The poem “Eugene Onegin” tells how important it is to make the right choice in a timely manner. Pushkin was able to describe with all realism a cruel joke of fate, when the roles of the heroes change exactly the opposite. At first, Tatiana was inflamed with passionate feelings for Eugene. The young girl saw in him the personification of the image of the long-awaited romantic hero. But Larina's recognition was rejected by Onegin. [...] ...
22. The novel by M. Yu. Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time” (1837-1840) is the peak of the writer's creativity. This is a socio-psychological novel in which the main task of the author was to create an image of a contemporary person, to study the human soul. The author managed to trace how the environment affects the formation of personality, to give a portrait of the entire generation of young people of that time. In the preface to the novel, the main character is Pechorin [...] ...
23. Belinsky very accurately described the personality of Pechorin, calling him a hero of our time, a kind of Onegin. And they are so similar that the distance between the rivers Pechora and Onegoya is much greater than the difference in their characters. Herzen agrees with Belinsky, who considers Pechorin to be Onegin's younger brother. And if you think about it, it's not hard to guess that they are really very close. Both heroes [...] ...
24. Pechorin Grushnitsky Origin Aristocrat by origin, Pechorin remains an aristocrat throughout the novel. Grushnitsky from a simple family. An ordinary cadet, he is very ambitious, and by hook or by crook seeks to break out into the people. Appearance More than once Lermontov focuses on the external manifestations of Pechorin's aristocracy, such as pallor, a small brush, “dazzlingly clean linen”. At the same time, Pechorin is not obsessed [...] ...
25. The novel "A Hero of Our Time" became a continuation of the theme of "extra people". This theme became central to the novel in the poems of Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". Herzen called Pechorin Onegin's younger brother. In the preface to the novel, the author shows his attitude towards his hero. Just like Pushkin in Eugene Onegin (“I am always glad to notice the difference [...] ...
26. Comparative characteristics are today one of the most popular types of school essay. Having studied enough Russian literature and approaching the graduation essay, we know that many heroes seem to be "guys": Chatsky and Sophia, Onegin and Tatiana, Onegin and Lensky, Pechorin and Grushnitsky, Oblomov and Stolz, Bazarov and Arkady Kirsanov, Prince Andrey and Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Myshkin [...] ...
27. In the Taman chapter, we are shown a meeting of Pechorin with honest smugglers. Thanks to this case, we can get to know Pechorin better. First, we learned that Pechorin has his own prejudices for everything: "I have a strong prejudice against all the blind." This may indicate that Pechorin is a rather educated person. He can reason deeply on various topics. Pechorin [...] ...
28. The hero of Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin appears before us at different periods of his Life. The entire first chapter is devoted to the description of his youth. Onegin's youth "Young rake" - these words can briefly describe Eugene at this time. He does not serve anywhere, leads a secular life, goes to balls and dinners, pays a lot of attention to his appearance. He can […]...
29. “Sadly, I look at our generation ...” M. Yu. Lermontov Investigating Lermontov's novel “A Hero of Our Time”, Belinsky drew attention to the fact that Pechorin is in many ways reminiscent of Pushkin's Onegin. This gave the criticism grounds to call Pechorin Onegin's “younger brother”. Emphasizing the undoubted similarity of the heroes of the two great poets, he said in his article “A Hero of Our Time”: “Their difference is much less than the distance [...] ...
30. Onegin. The hero of the novel appears before the reader as an ordinary person (like many others), and extraordinary, simple and complex. This complexity and even contradiction was a reflection of that complex, contradictory era that gave rise to such characters. At the beginning of the novel, we see a young man living according to the laws and customs of a secular society. He leaves Petersburg not in a fit [...] ...
31. The originality of the beginning of the novel The origin, upbringing, education, pastime of Onegin. Characteristics of Onegin in the period of passion for light (thoughtless attitude to life, feigned disappointment, "the science of tender passion. Onegin's indifference to art. Onegin's day is a typical day of a young man. Reasons for Onegin's disillusionment in the life and interests of secular society. Onegin's features in the period of disappointment in the light : contempt for secular society. removal [...] ...
32. Why Pechorin belongs to the type of "extra people"? Pechorin is a hero of the epoch of the 1830-1840s, when the facts of the defeat of the noble uprising of 1825 were fresh in the memory of the Russian people and when the “fathers”, the generation of the 1920s, in a sense betrayed the ideals of the fighters for the triumph of freedom , equality and fraternity. And life is wearying us, like an even path without a goal, Like [...] ...
33. … What is Onegin ?. .. He is in the novel a man who was killed by his upbringing and social life, who took a close look, everything became boring ... ... Pechorin is not like that. This man is not indifferent, not apathetically bearing his suffering: he is frantically chasing life, looking for it everywhere; bitterly he accuses himself of his delusions ... But how is Onegin Pechorin higher in artistic [...] ...
34. The main character is Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, a young man of about twenty-five. In several places in the novel, the author gives a description of the hero's appearance, indicating some of its features with character. For the first time Pechorin appears in the novel before Maksim Maksimych in the fortress behind the Terek (“Bela”): “He came to me in full uniform ... He was so thin, white, he was wearing such a uniform [...] ...
35. "A Hero of Our Time" by M. Yu. Lermontov was published in a separate edition in St. Petersburg in the spring of 1940. The novel became one of the extraordinary phenomena in Russian literature. This book has been the object of numerous disputes and studies for a century and a half, and has not lost its vitality in our days. Belinsky wrote about her: “Here is a book, which [...] ...
36. For me, M. Yu. Lermontov's novel "Hero of Our Time" is primarily a work about an insanely lonely person. Pechorin's life story consists of losses and disappointments: friends, acquaintances, loved ones leave him. First of all, this happens because no one understands the hero. There is only one person who realizes what is going on in Pechorin's soul. [...] ...
37. At the center of Alexander Pushkin's poetic novel "Eugene Onegin" is the fate of a young nobleman, a typical representative of his time and his generation. Throughout eight chapters, we watch his fate, the dramatic ups and downs of the hero's life, his evolution. The first chapter of the novel describes Onegin “at the moment” of his appearance in the novel, reveals the origins of the character of the hero - his conditions [...] ...
38. The reader gets acquainted with Pechorin in the story “Bela”. Maksim Maksimych, a staff captain who served with him in the Caucasus and sincerely attached to Pechorin, tells about him. Maxim Maksimych is a kind person; the tragedy of love, Pechorin's disappointment touch the captain's heart. He admires the hero, but cannot understand Pechorin: for him he is a "nice fellow", "but with great oddities." Maxim Maksimych and [...] ...
39. The whole life of the protagonist of M. Yu. Lermontov's novel “A Hero of Our Time” can indeed be called a tragedy. Why and who is to blame for this are the topics to which this essay is devoted. So, Grigory Pechorin was exiled from St. Petersburg for a kind of “history” to the Caucasus, along the way several more stories happen to him, he is demoted, he goes to the Caucasus again, then for a while [...] ...
40. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the greatest Russian poet-realist. His best work, in which “all life, all soul, all his love; his feelings, concepts, ideals ”, is“ Eugene Onegin ”. A. Pushkin in his novel “Eugene Onegin” asks and tries to answer the question: what is the meaning of life? He sets the task of giving a real image of a young man of a secular society. IN […]...

Comparative characteristics of Onegin and Pechorin

Between the hero of Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time" and the hero of the novel in Pushkin's poems "Eugene Onegin" there are a number of similarities, but also significant differences.

Pechorin and Eugene Onegin are quite interesting personalities. Their originality is expressed in the fact that, in comparison with other people of the same social generation as them, the main characters of the novels of Pushkin and Lermontov seem to the reader smart, subtle, but at the same time quite cruel and reasonable.

They have studied people well, which helps them to skillfully handle the feelings of others. Pechorin became disillusioned with people, lost all interest in life, but throughout the entire novel he tries to find him, while painfully hurting the feelings of others. Society made him cold and cruel:

“I was ready to love the whole world - nobody understood me: and I learned to hate”.

Eugene Onegin is tired of life. He quickly got enough of all the delights of life, and they soon tired him. Onegin tries to find himself in different fields of activity, but nothing touches his soul. He lost interest in life, became cynical and lazy; his mind and soul demand interest in something, but they do not get it.

“How early could he be a hypocrite,

Conceal hope, be jealous

Reassure, make you believe

To seem gloomy, to languish. "

But there are also differences between Onegin and Pechorin.

Onegin, tired of life's worries, does not try to find the meaning of his existence, to dispel boredom. He is lazy, his heart has not touched anything for a long time, and it seems that he leads a meaningless existence. Onegin is not amused by balls, theaters, he has cooled down to life and is doing everything more likely because such an order has developed for him over several years.

“No: early feelings in him cooled down;

He was bored with the noise of the light;

Beauties were not for long the subject of his usual thoughts;

They managed to satisfy the treason;

Friends and friendship are tired ... ".

Pechorin appears before readers as the image of a romantic, but at the same time, selfish young man. Although he still burns a desire to find the meaning of life and his purpose in it, all his attempts to do this do not bring him success.

“I became a moral cripple: one half of my soul did not exist, it dried up, evaporated, died, I cut it off and abandoned it, - while the other moved and lived at the service of everyone, and no one noticed this, because no one knew about existence of her dead half. "

The similarities and differences of the main characters show the different psychologism of the novels. "Eugene Onegin" is a work that contains hidden optimism; A Hero of Our Time is a tragic novel that introduces the reader into a long discussion about the eternal questions of life.

In Russian literature of the 19th century, the images of Eugene Onegin and Pechorin became symbols of the era. They combined the typical features of the nobility with outstanding personal qualities, deep intellect and strength of character, which, alas, were not used in the conditions of a deep moral crisis, which became the main sign of the time in the 30s - 40s. Misunderstood in their circle, superfluous, they wasted their strength in vain, and failed to overcome the moral deafness of their contemporaries and the pettiness of public opinion, which was considered the main measure of human values \u200b\u200bin high society. For all the similarities, Onegin and Pechorin are endowed with bright individual traits, thanks to which modern readers also show interest in these literary heroes.

Pechorin - the protagonist of the novel by M. Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time", a Russian nobleman, an officer who, on duty, found himself in a war zone in the Caucasus. The uncommon personality of this literary hero caused sharp controversy in the circle of critics and the hot interest of contemporary readers.

Onegin- the main character of the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin", written by A. Pushkin. Onegin belongs to the noble aristocracy. His biography, according to V.G.Belinsky, became an encyclopedia of Russian life in the first half of the 19th century.

What is the difference between Pechorin and Onegin?

Comparison of Pechorin and Onegin

The first chapters of Eugene Onegin were published by A. Pushkin in 1825. The readers met Pechorin in 1840. The slight difference in the time of creation of these literary images was still of fundamental importance for the disclosure of their personal qualities, which contemporaries perceived as a reflection of deep social processes.

At the beginning of the novel, Onegin is a secular dandy. He is rich, educated and constantly under the scrutiny of high society. Tired of idleness, Yevgeny makes an attempt to get down to serious business: reforming the economy he inherited. The novelty of village life turned into boredom for him: the lack of the habit of working gave rise to a blues, and all the undertakings of the learned economist came to naught.

Both characters are representatives of the capital's aristocracy. The heroes received an excellent education and upbringing. Their intelligence level is higher than the average level of the people around them. The characters are separated by ten years, but each of them is a representative of his era. Onegin's life takes place in the twenties, the action of Lermontov's novel unfolds in the 30s of the 19th century. The first is under the influence of freedom-loving ideas in the flourishing of the progressive social movement. Pechorin lives in a period of violent political reactions to the activities of the Decembrists. And if the first could still join the rebels and find a goal, thus giving meaning to his own existence, then the second hero no longer had such an opportunity. This already speaks of the greater tragedy of Lermontov's character.

Onegin's drama is in the futility of his own strength and the emptyness of the way of life, which was imposed by public opinion and accepted by the hero as a standard, beyond which he never dared to step. The duel with Lensky, the difficult relationship with Tatyana Larina is a consequence of the deep moral dependence on the opinions of the world, which played a primary role in Onegin's fate.

Pechorin, unlike Onegin, is not so rich and noble. He serves in the Caucasus, in a place of dangerous hostilities, showing miracles of courage, demonstrating endurance and strength of character. But its main feature, repeatedly emphasized in the novel, is the ambiguous contradiction of spiritual nobility and selfishness, bordering on cruelty.

The reader learns about Onegin's personality from the narrator's remarks and Tatiana Larina's observations. The narrator and Maxim Maksimych express their opinions about Pechorin. But his inner world is fully revealed in the diary - a bitter confession of a person who could not find his place in life.

Pechorin's diary entries are the philosophy of the Byronic hero. His duel with Grushnitsky is a kind of revenge on secular society for heartlessness and a passion for intrigue.

In opposition to the light, Pechorin, like Onegin, is defeated. Forces without use, life without a goal, inability to love and friendship, secular tinsel instead of serving a high goal - these motives in Eugene Onegin and A Hero of Our Time have a common sound.

Pechorin became a hero of his time: the second half of the 30s of the XIX century, marked by a deep social crisis after the events associated with the Decembrist movement in Russia.

Both characters are highly critical of people and life. Realizing the emptiness and monotony of their existence, they show dissatisfaction with themselves. They are oppressed by the surrounding situation and people mired in slander and anger, envy. Disappointed in society, the heroes fall into melancholy, begin to get bored. Onegin tries to start writing to satisfy his spiritual needs. But he quickly gets tired of "hard work". Reading also captivates him briefly. Pechorin, too, quickly gets tired of any business he has begun. However, having got to the Caucasus, Grigory still hopes that there will be no place for boredom under the bullets. But he gets used to military operations very quickly. Lermontov's character was also bored with love adventures. This can be seen in the attitude of Pechorin to Mary and Bela. Having achieved love, Grigory quickly loses interest in the ladies.

A comparative description of Onegin and Pechorin would be incomplete without mentioning the self-criticism of the heroes. The first is tormented by remorse after the duel with Lensky. Onegin is unable to stay in the places where the tragedy happened, throws everything and begins to wander around the world. The hero of Lermontov's novel admits that he caused a lot of grief to people in his entire life. But, despite this understanding, Pechorin is not going to change himself and his behavior. And Gregory's self-criticism does not bring relief to anyone - neither to himself, nor to those around him. This attitude towards life, himself, people portrays him as a "moral cripple." Despite the differences between Pechorin and Onegin, they both have many features in common. Each of them has a particular ability to understand people perfectly. Both heroes are good psychologists. So, Onegin singled out Tatiana immediately, at the first meeting. Of all the representatives of the local nobility, Eugene became friends only with Lensky. The hero of Lermontov also correctly judges the people who meet him on the way. Pechorin gives quite accurate and accurate characteristics to those around him. In addition, Gregory perfectly knows female psychology, can easily predict the actions of women and, using this, wins their love. Comparative characteristics of Onegin and Pechorin allow one to see the true state of the characters' inner worlds. In particular, despite all the misfortunes that each of them caused to people, both of them are capable of bright feelings.

Love in the lives of heroes

Realizing his love for Tatiana, Onegin is ready to do anything in order to just see her. Lermontov's hero immediately rushes after Vera who has left. Pechorin, not catching up with his beloved, falls in the middle of the path and cries like a child. Pushkin's hero is noble. Onegin is honest with Tatiana and does not think to take advantage of her inexperience. In this, Lermontov's hero is the exact opposite. Pechorin appears as an immoral person, a man for whom the people around him are just toys.

Pechorin and Onegin belong to that social type of the twenties of the nineteenth century, who were called "superfluous" people. "Suffering egoists", "clever uselessness" - so figuratively and precisely defined the essence of this type Belinsky.
So, how are the characters in Pushkin's and Lermontov's works similar and in what ways?
First of all, the heroes of both novels appear before us as historically and socially conditioned human characters. The social and political life of Russia in the twenties of the nineteenth century - the intensification of political reaction, the decline of the spiritual forces of the young generation - gave rise to a special type of incomprehensible young man of that time.
Onegin and Pechorin are united by their origins, upbringing and education: both of them come from wealthy noble families. At the same time, both heroes do not accept much of the secular conventions, they have a negative attitude to the external secular splendor, lies, hypocrisy. This is evidenced, for example, by Pechorin's detailed monologue about his "colorless" youth, which "passed in the struggle with himself and the light." As a result of this struggle, he "became a moral cripple", quickly fed up with "all the pleasures that money can get." The same definition is quite applicable to Pushkin's hero: "fun and luxury child", he quickly got tired of the bustle of the world, and "the Russian melancholy took possession of him little by little."
It unites heroes and spiritual loneliness among the secular "motley crowd". "... My soul is spoiled by the light, my imagination is restless, my heart is insatiable," Pechorin bitterly notes in a conversation with Maxim Maksimych. The same is said about Onegin: “… early feelings in him cooled down; he got bored with the noise of the light. "
Hence, in both works, the idea of \u200b\u200bescapism arises - the desire of both heroes for solitude, their attempt to remove themselves from society, worldly vanity. This is expressed both in a literal escape from civilization, and in flight from society into the world of inner experiences, "the conditions of light overthrowing the burden." Onegin and Pechorin are also united by the common motive of "wandering without a goal", "the hunt for a change of place" (Pechorin's wanderings in the Caucasus, Onegin's fruitless travels after a duel with Lensky).
Spiritual freedom, which is understood by the heroes as independence from people and circumstances, is the main value in the worldview system of both characters. For example, Pechorin explains his lack of friends by the fact that friendship always leads to the loss of personal freedom: "Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other." The similarity between Onegin and Pechorin is manifested in their similar attitude to love, inability to deep affection:
“We managed to tire of treason;
Friends and friendship are tired. "
Such a perception of the world determines the special significance of the actions of the heroes in the lives of other people: both of them, according to Pechorin's different expressions, play the role of “axes in the hands of fate,” causing suffering to people with whom their fate confronts. Lensky dies in a duel, Tatyana suffers; similarly, Grushnitsky dies, Bela dies, good Maxim Maksimych is offended, the smugglers' way of life is destroyed, Mary and Vera are unhappy.
The heroes of Pushkin and Lermontov are almost equally inherent in "taking the form", "putting on a mask."
Another similarity of these heroes is that they embody a type of intellectual character, which is characterized by an eccentricity of judgments, dissatisfaction with oneself, a tendency to irony - all that is brilliantly defined by Pushkin as a "sharp, chilled mind." In this respect, there is a direct overlap between Pushkin's and Lermontov's novels.
However, there are also clear differences between the characters of these characters and the means of their artistic depiction in both novels.
So what's the difference? If Pechorin is characterized by an unlimited need for freedom and a constant desire to "subjugate what surrounds him to his will," "to arouse feelings of love, devotion and fear", then Onegin does not strive for constant self-affirmation at the expense of other people, takes a more passive position.
Pechorin's worldview is also distinguished by great cynicism, some disdain for people

The difference between Pechorin and Onegin

1. Onegin is a literary hero who could devote his life to democratic transformations in society, but due to his personal qualities he became a hostage of the high society.
2. Pechorin understands the worthlessness of his own existence and tries to change it: at the end of the novel, he leaves Russia.
3. Onegin does not seek to change anything in his fate: all his actions are a consequence of the prevailing circumstances.
4. Pechorin is able to objectively assess himself and honestly admit his passions and vices.
5. Onegin understands his own imperfection, but is unable to analyze his own actions and their consequences.