Studying the works of A.S. Pushkin, we are more and more imbued with respect for his literary activity. The constant interest in his works makes us dive deeper and deeper into the world of his creations. Everything that belongs to Pushkin's pen is capacious, beautiful, impressive. His immortal works will be studied by more than one generation of readers.

"Eugene Onegin" is a novel to which Pushkin devoted eight long years. The value of this novel for our cultural and spiritual life is undeniable. The novel is written according to the new canons - it is a novel in verse. The novel "Eugene Onegin" is a philosophical, historical novel.

Onegin and Lensky - two central figures novel. In order to understand what these characters are, to understand the concept of the personality of these people, to penetrate deeper into the author's intention, we will give their comparative characteristics.

The comparative characteristics of the heroes are given according to the following criteria:
upbringing,
education,
character,
ideals,
relation to poetry
relationship to love
attitude to life.

Upbringing

Eugene Onegin. Onegin, by right of birth, belongs to a noble family. Under the guidance of a French tutor, Onegin, “having fun and luxury a child”, was brought up in the spirit of aristocracy, far from truly Russian, national foundations.

“At first Madame followed him,
Then Monsieur replaced her ...
Slightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for a walk in the Summer Garden"

Vladimir Lensky. Humanly attractive character. A handsome man, “black curls to the shoulders”, a rich man, youthfully enthusiastic and ardent. On what ideals Lensky was brought up, the author is silent.

Education

Eugene Onegin
“We all learned little by little, something and somehow,” A.S. Pushkin wisely remarks. Onegin was taught in such a way "so that the child would not be exhausted."

Prince P.A. Vyazemsky, a friend of A.S. Pushkin, wrote at one time that according to the canons of that time, insufficiently deep knowledge of the Russian language was allowed, but ignorance of French was not allowed.

"He's completely French.
Could speak and write

What other knowledge did Eugene shine with? He was somewhat familiar with classical literature, Roman, Greek. He was interested in history (“from Romulus to the present day”). He had an idea about the social sciences (“he knew how to judge how the state gets richer and how it lives”), political economy (“but read Adam Smith”).

“A small scientist, but a pedant:
He had a lucky talent
No compulsion to speak
Touch everything lightly
With a learned look of a connoisseur.

In general, Onegin can be described as an intelligent person, critical of reality, able to weigh all the pros and cons.

Vladimir Lensky
"Half-Russian" student at the University of Göttingen. Pretty smart, passionate about philosophy (“an admirer of Kant”) and poetry.

"He's from foggy Germany
Bring the fruits of learning ... "

Perhaps he had a bright future, but, most likely,

"... the poet
An ordinary one was waiting for a fate.

ideals

Eugene Onegin. In order to understand Onegin's ideals, one must understand the very concept of "ideal". The ideal is what we strive for. What was Onegin aiming for? To harmony. Which way did he go? Onegin's path is a struggle between the eternal (national) and the temporal (that which has settled in the character of the hero thanks to society and the ideals of a foreign, introduced philosophy).

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky's ideal is eternal love and holy friendship to the grave.

Character

Eugene Onegin. The character of Onegin is contradictory, complex, as his time is complex and contradictory.

What is he, Onegin?
Onegin is lazy (“which occupied his melancholy laziness all day long”), proud, indifferent. He is a hypocrite and a flatterer, a hunter to slander and criticize. He likes to draw attention to himself, to philosophize. At the feast of life, Onegin is superfluous. He clearly stands out from the crowd around him, seeks to seek the meaning of life. He is tired of hard work. Boredom, spleen, loss of orientation in life, skepticism are the main signs of "superfluous people", to which Onegin belongs.

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky is the exact opposite of Onegin. There is nothing rebellious in Lensky's character.

What is he, Lensky?
Enthusiastic, freedom-loving, dreamy. He is a romantic, a sincere person, with a pure soul, not spoiled by the world, direct, honest. But Lensky is not ideal. The meaning of life for him is a mystery.

"The purpose of our life for him
Was a tempting mystery…”

Lensky and Onegin are different. But at the same time, they are similar: both do not have a worthwhile business, reliable prospects, they lack firmness of spirit.

Attitude towards poetry

Eugene Onegin.“Yawning, I took up the pen, I wanted to write ...” What literary material did Onegin decide to take on? It is unlikely that he was going to write poetry. "He could not iambic from chorea, No matter how hard we fought, to distinguish ...". At the same time, it cannot be said that Onegin was averse to poetry. He did not understand the true purpose of poetry, but he was engaged in poetry. He wrote epigrams. (An epigram is a small satirical poem that ridicules a person or social phenomenon).

"And make the ladies smile
Fire of unexpected epigrams"

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky's attitude to poetry is the most favorable. Lensky is a poet, romantic, dreamer. And who is not a romantic at eighteen? Who does not secretly write poetry, does not awaken the lyre?

Attitude towards love

Eugene Onegin.“In love, being considered an invalid, Onegin listened with an air of importance ...” Onegin’s attitude to love is skeptical, with a certain amount of irony and pragmatism.

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky is a singer of love.
"He sang love, obedient to love,
And his song was clear ... "

Attitude to life

Eugene Onegin. Onegin's views on life: life is meaningless, empty. There is no worthy goal in life to strive for.

Vladimir Lensky. Romance, with an ardent spirit and enthusiastic speeches, is alien to a deep look at life.

Conclusion

A.S. Pushkin is the great son of the Russian land. He was given the opportunity to open a new page in Russian literature.

Onegin and Lensky are antipodes. Onegin is a man in whom a good beginning is dormant, but his superficial "ideals" lead to constant conflicts, internal disharmony.

Lensky is freedom-loving, dreamy and enthusiastic, he firmly believes in his ideals. But he is cut off from his native soil, he has no inner core.

Writers have always strived for a real depiction of Russian life; but in these images, for the time being, there was a lack of artistry, free creativity. Pushkin brought beauty, a powerful aesthetic principle to Russian literature; artistically depicting Russian reality, at the same time, he firmly stood on the position of deep realism.

A.S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" is a historical, philosophical work, it is a novel-life. The pictures of Russian society depicted in the novel are the most important material for the analysis of the era, characters, mores, and traditions.

"Eugene Onegin" is one of the most original novels in Russian literature. And Pushkin, of course, understood this. Before him, novels were written in prose, because it is the genre of “prose” that is more suitable for describing the details of life, and for showing it as a whole. In poetry, it's different. When the author writes poetry, he involuntarily reveals his inner world, shows his "I", displays life through the prism of his own ideas.

In the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin shows a picture of his era and does not separate it from himself. In the novel, invented characters live, love, suffer, but they are almost inseparable from the author. The story of their life is a diary of the author's soul.

Pushkin's innovative decision was the appearance in the novel of an unusual image, the image of the author. And the search for the relationship of this image with the images of heroes.

The novel is called "Eugene Onegin", it is natural to assume that one of the main characters of the novel is the character of the same name. Reading line after line, we understand that along with him, the author also plays a full-fledged role in the novel. The author is invisibly present where his characters are. He is not a soulless verbal narrator; we can notice this both in lyrical digressions and in the main storyline. The author constantly intrudes into the field of narration, discusses various topics, creates a certain mood, clarifies the details. The author and I are better off, he is the link between the characters and us.

The author has a special relationship with Eugene Onegin. The author is older than Onegin, he "has not sinned for a long time." They are somewhat similar. Both are of the nobility. Both are fluent in French. Reading circle of Onegin - Byron, Maturin. But Pushkin himself read the same thing!

Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is Onegin's favorite book. Pushkin and his contemporaries also read to her. Childe Harold's melancholy, despondency, disappointment were even "copied" by some representatives of high society; the mask of the bored man was popular.

As for Maturin, both Onegin and Pushkin were interested in his novel Melmoth the Wanderer.

At this stage, we will make a lyrical digression and say that in the novel we do not identify the author with Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Pushkin and the author (the verbal narrator in the novel) are not the same person. Although their biographies partly coincide.

The writer A. Tarkhov notices that the existence of two "I" (a certain author and the real poet Pushkin) is one of the main intrigues (contradictions) of the "free novel" "Eugene Onegin".

Let's get back to our heroes. How does the author feel about Eugene Onegin? With irony, but it is impossible not to notice that with undisguised sympathy too. Although…

"I'm always glad to see the difference
Between Onegin and me"

The similarity of heroes is present in upbringing and education. The author remarks ironically:

"We all learned a little
Something and somehow
So education, thank God,
It's easy for us to shine."

In what else are they similar, and in what are Onegin and the author different?

Both of them are familiar with the banks of the Neva. Onegin tried to take up the pen, “but hard work was sickening to him”, the author is not like that. He belongs to the "fervent workshop" of writers.

For Onegin, theater and ballet are not temples of art, where beauty and emotions are born, they are a place for flirting, romance, sighing.

"The theater is an evil legislator,
Fickle Admirer
charming actresses,
Honorary Citizen Backstage".

“I was embittered, he is sullen;
We both knew the passion game;
The life tormented both of us;
In both hearts the heat died down;
Anger awaited both
Blind Fortune and people
In the very morning of our days."

The difference between the types can also be traced in the fact that Onegin noticed "that boredom is the same in the village", and the author "was born ... for village silence."

The image of Onegin in the novel is not static, it undergoes changes. It is at the time when Onegin is experiencing true disappointment that the author becomes close to his "good friend" Onegin, tries to develop creativity in him, teach him to write poetry. But this attempt was unsuccessful, because "he could not distinguish an iambic from a chorea, no matter how hard we fought, to distinguish."

As the plot develops, we see that the worldview of the author and Onegin is changing. Onegin understood a lot, felt a lot. The author is different too. Onegin at the end of the novel is more loyal and understandable; such it is closer to the author.

How will it turn out future life Eugene? I would like to hope that it is successful. Yevgeny has positive inclinations. The only problem is the gap between Onegin's potential and the role he has chosen for himself in society.

Conclusion

In the novel "Eugene Onegin" the same wonderful image of the "responding poet" appears. The author in the novel is not Pushkin, he is an independent hero, a full participant in the events. The author and Onegin are in many ways similar. They think about life, are critical of many things, they are characterized by an intense search for a goal in life. They are above the crowd that surrounds them. But at the same time, they are different. The author treats Eugene ironically, but with obvious sympathy. The difference in the views of these two types was established in the first chapter. That is, dots over i are placed at the very beginning.

The author, whom Pushkin wisely made the hero of the novel, is frank with us, gives the necessary explanations. Thanks to the author, we better understand the image of Onegin, the images of other heroes of the work, we better understand the storyline of the novel.

Eugene Onegin Vladimir Lensky
Hero Age More mature, at the beginning of the novel in verse and during the acquaintance and duel with Lensky, he is 26 years old. Lensky is young, he is not yet 18 years old.
Upbringing and education He received a home education, which was typical for most nobles in Russia. The teachers “did not bother with strict morality”, “slightly scolded for pranks”, but, more simply, spoiled the barchonka. He studied at the University of Göttingen in Germany, the birthplace of romanticism.
In his intellectual baggage freedom-loving dreams", "always enthusiastic speech". He is what Onegin was at the age of 18 - a romantic, ardent, amorous dreamer, torn from his father's home and having a vague idea of ​​​​Russian reality. Lensky's idealism was "imported" from Germany.
Knowledge of light and secular life Tired and disappointed with the world, disappointed in it, having clearly seen all its deceit, artificiality and emptiness. He does not know the social life at all.
Hero character Stone, ice - cold, hard, cooled to life. Wave, flame - lively, mobile, stormy, quick-tempered.
Attitude towards love Windiness and superficiality in love are the norm for him. However, as for the whole world. Cooled down from youthful idealized feelings, " he no longer fell in love with beauties, but dragged himself along somehow. Moreover, he is characterized by lightness and indifference to his novels.
Lovelace Onegin "fell in love many times."		 He idealized his beloved, putting her on a pedestal for worship and poetic revelations. He believes that he is not alone in his attitude. Olga Larina is Lensky's first love.
attitude towards friendship Does not look for new friends, avoids acquaintances, preferring solitude, spends time alone and discouraged. He firmly believes in true friendship. I am convinced that friends will even sacrifice themselves for him.
Poetry and literature in general He doesn’t read poetry on principle, he doesn’t understand them at all, all the more he doesn’t make attempts to write poetry. It is known about him that “ I have long fallen out of love with reading". Reads in fits and starts, and mostly "practical" literature - the economic works of Adam Smith. In the past, I read several novels about a contemporary hero. A romantic poet who sings of friendship, love and ideals. Kant's admirer and poet.
Mind and feelings Rational, analyzes with a cold mind, looks with disdain at other people's feelings. Sensitive, impulsive, quick-tempered and enthusiastic.
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    A. S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin"
    1 chapter
    Onegin Day

    Literature lesson in grade 9

    Lesson Objectives:

    After tracing the life of the hero for one day, understand the reasons for his disappointment and see in what way the author sympathizes with his hero and in what way he opposes him.

    During the lesson, we will fill in the table:

    Comparison questions

    Onegin

    1. Attitude towards the opinion of the world

    3. Attitude towards art, towards the theater

    5. Attitude towards nature

    Let's follow Onegin's "route" (animated diagram) *Next, the teacher, along with the students, follow the hyperlinks

    “He rushed to Talon ...”
    (stanzas 15-16) stanzas are reread, verbal commentary is given

    Bolivar - a wide-brimmed hat with a low crown, widened upwards

    Breguet - watch

    Onegin lives at the behest of Breguet, that is, by the clock, like a wound up puppet.

    Kaverin is a friend of Pushkin, he is a friend of Onegin

    In stanza 16, Pushkin introduces us to a typical menu of those years.

    What did the nobles eat in the restaurant in those years?

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    Let's now read the episode "Onegin in the Theater" (stanzas 17, 21-22)

    How does Pushkin feel about the theater, but what about Onegin?

    How does Onegin behave in the theater? Find the details that characterize it.

    Onegin's office

    Do you remember what Onegin's office looks like?

    How does the interior of his home characterize him?

    At the ball
    (stanzas 27-28, 33-34)

    Why did Onegin come to the ball? Does the author describe it at the ball?

    End of the day. Viewing a video clip

    Let's answer the first question of the lesson:

    Why does Pushkin describe only one day of the hero?

    The answer is given in the text:

    “Wakes up at noon, and again

    Until the morning his life is ready,

    Monotonous and variegated

    And tomorrow is the same as yesterday.

    With such a life, is Eugene happy?

    Why?

    Check your work in class

    Comparison questions

    Onegin

    1. Attitude towards the opinion of the world

    "Fearing Jealous Judgment"

    "Not thinking proud light to amuse"

    2. Attitude towards women and love

    "The science of tender passion", "dragged somehow"

    Continues to admire female beauty

    3. Attitude towards art, theater

    "Turned away and yawned..."

    "Magic Land!"

    4. Attitude towards work, creativity

    "Hard work made him sick"

    Pushkin is the creator

    5. Attitude towards nature

    “On the third grove, hill and field did not please him anymore”

    “I was born for a peaceful life, for village silence…”

    Causes of Onegin's blues

    An idle life quickly tires, but not everyone, but only remarkable natures.

    What are his features?

    Its main feature is disappointment, which stems from spiritual emptiness.

    Why did he stop chasing the ladies of high society?

    High society - a society through and through false

    How did he want to get rid of boredom?

    Sat down at books, wanting to appropriate someone else's mind, tried to become a writer, went to the village

    Why didn't reading books help?

    He did not see the truth of life in books

    Why didn't he become a writer?

    Hard work made him sick

    Did he get rid of boredom in the village?

    Why?

    He is unable to see the beauties of nature

    Chapter 1 - the history of the illness of Onegin's soul.

    Why does Pushkin draw in this chapter only one day in the hero's life?

    He does not need to show several days, as they are similar to each other

    What is this day made up of?

    Boulevard, restaurant, theater, ball - an idle life

    Highlight in the text the characteristics of Lensky, Olga, Tatiana

    Prepare the story "Tatyana's Education" with citation by heart

    Prepare an answer to the question "Onegin's Day" with citation by heart

    In the novel "Eugene Onegin" next to the main character, the author depicts other characters that help to better understand the character of Eugene Onegin. Among these heroes, first of all, Vladimir Lensky should be mentioned.

    According to Pushkin himself, these two people are absolutely opposite: "ice and fire", - this is how the author writes about them. Nevertheless, they become inseparable friends, although Pushkin notes that they become such from "there is nothing to do."

    Let's try to compare Onegin and Lensky. Are they so different from each other?

    Why did they "get together"? Comparison of heroes is better presented in the form of a table:

    Eugene Onegin Vladimir Lensky
    Education and upbringing
    Traditional noble upbringing and education - as a child, a mamsel looks after him, then a monsieur, then he receives a good education. Pushkin writes: “We all learned little by little something and somehow,” but the poet received, as you know, an excellent education in the elite Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Studied in Germany. The author does not say anything about who was involved in his upbringing at an earlier age. The result of such an education is a romantic worldview, it is no coincidence that Lensky is a poet.
    State of mind, attitude to human values
    Onegin feels tired of life, disappointed in it, for him there are no values ​​- he does not value love, friendship, or rather, does not believe in the sincerity and strength of these feelings.
    >No: early feelings in him cooled down
    He was tired of the light noise.
    And then the author "makes a" diagnosis "of the state of his hero - in short: the Russian melancholy took possession of him little by little ..."    		 Returning to his homeland, Lensky expects happiness and a miracle from life - therefore his soul and heart are open to love, friendship and creativity:
    The purpose of our life for him
    Was a tempting mystery
    He broke his head over her
    And I suspected miracles.
    Eugene Onegin Vladimir Lensky
    Life in the village, relations with neighbors
    Arriving in the village, Onegin is looking for an application to his strength, a way out of an aimless existence - he is trying to replace the corvee with "easy dues", he seeks to find people who are close to him in look and spirit. But not finding anyone, Onegin himself separated himself with a sharp line from the surrounding landowners.
    And those, in turn, considered him an "eccentric", "farmason" and "stopped friendship with him." Soon boredom and disappointment take over again.    		 Lensky is distinguished by an enthusiastic dreamy attitude to life, sincere simplicity and naivety.
    He had not yet had time to fade "from the cold debauchery of the world", he "was an ignoramus at heart."
    Understanding the purpose and meaning of life
    Doesn't believe in any lofty goal. I am sure that there is some higher goal in life, he just does not know it yet.
    Poetic creativity and the attitude of heroes to it
    Onegin "could not... distinguish iambic from trochee", had neither the ability to compose nor the desire to read poetry; to the works of Lensky, like A. S. Pushkin, he treats with slight irony. Lensky is a poet. He wandered with the lyre in the world Under the sky of Schiller and Goethe Their poetic fire The soul ignited in him. Lensky is inspired by the work of German romantic poets and also considers himself a romantic. In some ways, he is similar to Pushkin's friend Kuchelbecker. Lensky's poems are sentimental, and their content is love, "separation and sadness, and something, and foggy distance, and romantic roses ..."
    Love story
    Onegin does not believe in the sincerity of female love. Tatyana Larina, at the first meeting, does not evoke any feelings in Onegin's soul, except perhaps pity and sympathy. Only after a few years, the changed Onegin understands what kind of happiness he refused, rejecting Tatyana's love. Onegin's life does not make sense, since there was no place for love in it. Lensky, as a romantic poet, falls in love with Olga. Ideal for him female beauty, fidelity - everything in it. He not only loves her, he is passionately jealous of Olga for Onegin. He suspects her of treason, but as soon as Onegin leaves the evening dedicated to Tatyana's name day, Olga again sincerely shows her affection and love for Lensky.

    Friendship

    With all the differences in characters, temperaments and psychological types between Onegin and Lensky, one cannot fail to notice a number of similarities:

    They are opposed to the nobility, both in the city and in the countryside;

    They strive to find the meaning of life, not limited to the "joys" of the circle of secular youth;

    Broad intellectual interests - and history, and philosophy and moral questions, and reading literary works.

    Duel

    The duel becomes a special tragic page in the relationship between Onegin and Lensky. Both heroes perfectly understand all the senselessness and futility of this duel, but neither of them could overcome the convention - public opinion. It was the fear of judgment from others that made the two friends stand at the barrier and point the muzzle of a pistol at the chest of their recent friend.

    Onegin becomes a murderer, although according to the rules he does not commit murder, but only defends his honor. And Lensky goes to a duel in order to punish the universal evil, which at that moment, in his opinion, was concentrated in Onegin.

    After the duel, Onegin leaves, he sets off to travel around Russia. He is no longer able to remain in that society, the laws of which force him to commit acts contrary to his conscience. It can be assumed that it was this duel that became the starting point from which serious changes in Onegin's character begin.

    Tatyana Larina

    The novel is named after Eugene Onegin, but in the text of the novel there is another heroine who can be fully called the main one - this is Tatyana. This is Pushkin's favorite heroine. The author does not hide his sympathy: “forgive me ... I love my dear Tatyana so much ...”, and, on the contrary, at every opportunity emphasizes his disposition towards the heroine.

    This is how you can imagine the heroine:
    What distinguishes Tatyana from representatives of her circle Tatiana compared to Onegin
    . She is not like all society girls. There is no coquetry, affectation, insincerity, unnaturalness in it.
    . She prefers solitude to noisy games, does not like to play with dolls, she likes to read books or listen to nurse's stories about the old days. And she also surprisingly feels and understands nature, this spiritual sensitivity makes Tatiana closer to the common people than to secular society.
    . The basis of Tatiana's world - folk culture.
    . Pushkin emphasizes the spiritual connection of a girl who grew up in the "village" with beliefs, folk traditions. It is no coincidence that an episode is included in the novel, which tells about Tatyana's fortune-telling and dream.
    . There is a lot of intuitive, instinctive in Tatyana.
    . This is a discreet and deep, sad and pure, believing and faithful nature. Pushkin endowed his heroine with a rich inner world and spiritual purity:
    What is gifted from heaven
    rebellious imagination,
    Mind and will alive,
    And wayward head
    And with a fiery and tender heart...
    Believes in ideal happiness, in love, creates in his imagination under the influence of reading French novels perfect image beloved.    		 Tatyana is somewhat similar to Onegin:
    . The desire for loneliness, the desire to understand yourself and understand life.
    . Intuition, insight, natural intelligence.
    . The good disposition of the author to both characters.