One of the central images of the genius novel in verses "Eugene Onegin" A.S. Pushkin is Onegin. We characterize the hero based on the content of the first chapter.
Before us is an eighteen-year-old young aristocrat with a rich inheritance, which he received from his uncle. Onegin was born into a rich but ruined noble family. He calls caring for a seriously ill uncle "low deceit, " since Eugene is bored of being in the village and tiring of caring for a relative.
Onegin’s education and upbringing was not serious: "first Madame followed him, " the Frenchman "taught him everything in jest." According to the light, Onegin is "a small scientist, but a pedant, " however, "He had a happy talent
.touch only slightly with the scientific look of an expert. "AS Pushkin says about the level of education of the noblemen of the 20s of the 20th century as follows:" We all learned a little bit of something and somehow."
But most of all other disciplines of Onegin occupied the "science of tender passion." He could seem at once indifferent and attentive, gloomy, gloomy and eloquent, languid, knew how to amuse ladies, slander opponents and make friends with the husbands of his beloved. Only all this is a game of love, its image. “How early could he be hypocritical, ” the author says of the hero’s feelings. The main qualities that Onegin can describe in the first chapter of the novel are indifference, indifference to everything that happens, windiness. The hero is not interested in the suffering and feelings of other people.
The author attaches great importance to the image of Onegin's daily routine: waking up in the afternoon, notes with invitations to social events, a walk along the boulevard, visiting the theater, a ball, and returning home in the morning. For Onegin, his appearance is very important, about three hours a day the hero spends in front of a mirror: "He is cut off in the latest fashion, like a dandy in London is dressed." The hero follows the fashion, dresses stylishly in everything exquisite and foreign, mainly English and French. Fashion dooms to a superficial attitude to everything, therefore, following fashion, the hero cannot be himself.
Onegin’s theatrical performances are not interesting, he visits them only for the observance of secular etiquette: “He bowed with men from all sides, then he looked at the stage in great distraction, turned away, and yawned.” Eugene Onegin is surrounded by women, friends, famous people in the field of art, and he believes that it will always be so. After dancing and getting tired at the balls, Onegin returns home, but tomorrow the same thing is repeated: a dream until noon, invitations and balls.
The hero lived like this for about eight years. On the one hand, life is motley, on the other - gray, monotonous and empty. And such a life quickly got bored with the hero, and soon cooled to life in general: "the Russian spleen took possession of him a little", "nothing touched him, he did not notice anything." Thus, a competent and outstanding Onegin could not change his lifestyle, because secular society is stronger and requires observance of etiquette.
In the first chapter, the author’s attitude to the hero is noticeable: Pushkin calls Onegin “my good friend” and talks about how he made friends with him, spent time on the Neva Embankment, talks about how they shared memories with each other, and discussed the young ladies. However, Pushkin appreciates all the positive qualities of his hero with irony.
So, based on the analysis of the first chapter of the novel, we can conclude that Onegin is shown contradictory: a talented, outstanding, but not systematically educated young man wants love, but takes feelings lightly, knows how to behave in society and lives an active life, but misses the light. Onegin is subordinate to society, but forced to live in it. The usual pretense is tired, causes irritation. The words of P.Ya. Vyazemsky is successfully characterized by the hero: “He hurries to live and hurries to feel, ” but Onegin still does not know how to live true values.
