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- The image and characteristics of Bazarov in the novel Fathers and Sons
Evgeny Bazarov, one of the main characters of the novel. He is very different from other characters in the book. First of all, he differs from everyone else in his progressive views. He opposes religion and monarchy. In my opinion, the novel serves as an antipode to the older, conservative generation involved in the framework of traditions and moral principles. Turgenev deliberately introduces such a character into the novel, since he personifies the image of a new man, a commoner who has achieved everything with his mind. Turgenev contrasts it with the rotten aristocratic society. For this purpose, the author endows Bazarov with the actually invented concept of nihilism.
Bazarov's nihilism is manifested in everything: he denies art, laughs at fashion and openly despises noble pathos. For him, only the life of the peasant people remains truly important. He believes that talking about art in a world where the Russian peasant is dying of hunger is blasphemy. Bazarov identifies himself with the people. Although he reproaches him for his excessive patience and slavish nature. He laughs at folk superstitions and strives to educate people.
Bazarov puts himself quite sharply in disputes, demonstrating from the threshold that the noble family, age and even close relationship with his friend Arkady are not an authority for him, and do not oblige him to treat their opinions condescendingly. In the heated debate between Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich, two opposing positions collide. Their argument culminates in a duel scene.
For Bazarov, only science serves as authority. Science is empirical, verifiable by experiment and from which benefits can be derived. Everything else is nonsense and “art”. It would seem that there were no opportunities to influence this persistent and intelligent man in any way, but nevertheless, that great power was found that was able to overcome skepticism and nihilism, that power that Bazarov underestimated and which turned out to be above reason. And the name of this force is love.
Bazarov, unable to resist anything, falls in love with Olga Odintsova. But it so happened that Olga does not love Bazarov at all. The distressed Evgeniy plunges into himself and returns to his parents in order to lose himself in work and science. But having inadvertently received blood poisoning, Bazarov, on his deathbed, renounces his ideals and asks Olga to come. By this, the author destroys the philosophy he himself invented and proves that it is impossible to deny everything.
Option 2
The image of Yevgeny Bazarov is one of the main ones in the novel “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. The writer described many people and their character, but Bazarov interested the reader from the very first moment. A young, hard-working guy who was an avid realist and nihilist. Bazarov believed only in science, which can be proven and explained with the help of formulas and equations.
Evgeniy Vasilyevich is a very tough and self-confident person who achieved his goal with the help of his ability to speak and force. Bazarov was a nihilist, and he denied all beliefs and motivations; for him there were no authorities, he was his own authority.
Bazarov, having arrived to visit his friend Arkady, immediately entered into an argument with his uncle, who was an aristocrat and did not really like work. Kirsanov was a very subtle person, he loved poetry, music and painting. Bazarov, in turn, called all this nonsense and did not want to hear anything about love and romance. He believed that all this love and manifestation of feelings is weakness for a person and in every possible way pushed away thoughts of love.
Bazarov's parents loved him very much, but they never spoke openly about it out loud, because they knew that their son would get angry. They understood that deep down in his soul he loved them too, although Bazarov always denied this and insisted that love does not exist.
Turgenev described Bazarov as a person who takes science very seriously and tries to achieve success to the maximum. He is very confident and says it right to everyone's face and is not afraid of it. Wherever he goes, he establishes himself as a leader and a man who strives to put science first.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev did not forget to write about how Bazarov fell in love for the first time. He discovers new sensations for himself, Evgeny Bazarov is ready to follow his lady of his heart to the ends of the world. Bazarov is ready to give up everything if only Odintsova would be next to him and love him, just as he loves her.
Throughout the entire novel, the writer tries to reveal Bazarov’s spiritual qualities and the reader sees that for people like him, not all is lost. It turns out he can love, although he carefully hides it from everyone. He himself doesn't like feeling weak, but he can't help it.
When Bazarov dies, Turgenev tries to show that the hero has finally received peace and quiet.
Bazarov in I.S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”, his author’s assessment.
I. S. Turgenev wrote to A. A. Fet: “Did I want to scold Bazarov or extol him? I don’t know this myself, for I don’t know whether I love him or hate him.”
The novel “Fathers and Sons” depicts the era of the 50s of the 19th century. Two camps: nobles and commoners. An acute ideological struggle between successive social forces. By his convictions, Turgenev was a supporter of the reformist transformation of Russia. But as a great artist, he could not help but draw a portrait of the social type emerging in Russia.
D.I. Pisarev: “Turgenev himself will never be Bazarov, but he thought about this type and understood him in a way that none of our realists will understand.” Turgenev: “I dreamed of a gloomy, wild, large figure, half grown out of the soil, strong, evil, honest and yet doomed to death.” Bazarov is a bright personality, captivating those around him with his originality. Despite the feigned swagger, one can discern in him an energetic, courageous and at the same time sincere and kind character. Against the background of the inactive Pavel Petrovich, the impractical Nikolai Petrovich and the “sybaritic” Arkady, Bazarov stands out with his love of work, perseverance in achieving goals, and the desire to bring real benefit to Russia.
But on the other hand, Turgenev endowed Bazarov with features that reduced his image. Bazarov is cynical about women, love, marriage, and family. He speaks of Madame Odintsova: “a woman with a brain” and a “rich body.” Bazarov does not accept art. In his opinion, “Raphael is not worth a penny,” and all art is “the art of making money.” He recognizes only natural sciences due to their usefulness for the present Russia.
Bazarov retreats from many of his beliefs. The meeting with Odintsova reveals “romanticism” and the ability to love in Bazarov. The hero begins to doubt whether Russia really “needs” him. In the face of death, Bazarov begins to understand the value of such manifestations of life as poetry and beauty.
Bazarov's story illustrates Turgenev's philosophical idea: no matter what kind of people come into the world, no matter how passionately they want to turn life around, no matter how much they deny the spiritual beginning of life, they leave, disappear, and what remains is what is eternal - love, children, earth, sky. “No matter what passionate, sinful, rebellious heart hides in the grave, the flowers growing on it serenely look at us with their innocent eyes... they speak... of eternal reconciliation and endless life.”
“Drawing the figure of Bazarov, I excluded everything artistic from the circle of his sympathies, I gave him a harsh and unceremonious tone - not out of an absurd desire to offend the younger generation (!!!), but simply as a result of observations of my acquaintance, Doctor D. and people like him . “This life developed this way,” experience told me again, “maybe erroneous, but, I repeat, conscientious; I had nothing to be clever about - and I had to draw his figure just like that... probably many of my readers will be surprised if I tell them that, with the exception of my views on art, I share almost all of his beliefs. And they assure me that I am on the side of the “fathers”... I, who in the figure of Pavel Kirsanov even sinned against artistic truth and over-salted, brought his shortcomings to the point of caricature, made him funny!
The whole reason for the misunderstandings, the whole “trouble,” as they say, was that the Bazarov type I reproduced did not have time to go through the gradual phases through which literary types usually go..
At the very moment of the appearance of a new person - Bazarov - the author treated him critically... objectively. This confused many…” (I. S. Turgenev).
Essay Characteristics and image of Bazarov
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a true classic of Russian literature, who wrote a huge number of various stories and novels, touching on both economic, socio-political problems and issues of the human soul. Turgenev’s life’s work was the novel “Fathers and Sons”, the main character of which, Bazarov Evgeniy, reflects a new type of people, just emerging in the Russian Empire - nihilists.
Bazarov is a young student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, a nihilist (a person who does not recognize authorities). He has very strong principles and beliefs that are revealed to the reader throughout the novel, for example, Bazarov denies art, denies admiring nature, calling nature not a temple, but a workshop in which a person must work, denies love and aristocratic manners of communication in secular society.
The work contains a number of antipodes of the main character, including the entire Kirsanov family. Through an open discussion between Pyotr Petrovich Kirsanov and Bazarov, the main character is revealed in more detail, for example, the reader learns about some of the qualities of Evgeny’s nature. This technique is called opposition. Also interesting is Bazarov’s attitude towards the people, he considers himself their representative and is respected by the true representatives of the people (Kirsanov’s wife). But after a conversation with the peasant, the reader sees with what misunderstanding the common man looks at Bazarov, thus Turgenev shows how far from the people were not only the liberals, of which Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov is a bright and obvious representative, but also the nihilists, most of whom were revolutionary democrats, whose representative, in turn, was Bazarov.
Thus, we can conclude that the image of Bazarov is nothing more than a reflection of Turgenev’s vision of democratic revolutionaries. However, one should not think that everything was exactly as Turgenev described, if only because there is Chernyshevsky’s novel “What is to be done?”, in which the latter describes the nihilists in a very, very different way.
Bazarov's activities and worldviews
The main subject of his studies is natural sciences. He continues to conduct experiments here, on the Kirsanov estate. He strives to become a good doctor, and therefore studies anatomy not only in theory, but also in practice. He dissects frogs and, based on their structure, draws conclusions about the functioning of human organs.
When characterizing Bazarov, it should be noted that Evgeny belongs to the noble class. His father is a military doctor and the son of a sexton. The mother was a hereditary noblewoman, she owned a small estate and 15 peasant souls. But he does not consider himself a nobleman and disowns the noble class, considering the nobility useless. He says to Arkady:
At this time, Arkady tells his father and uncle about Bazarov’s nihilistic views.
Evgeniy Vasilyevich himself speaks about his worldviews as follows:
Bazarov does not approve of the fact that Pavel Petrovich looks after himself as if he were going to appear in society, although they live in the village. Pavel Petrovich, in turn, reacted to Bazarov with barely concealed irritation. At dinner, quarrels broke out between them more than once, and once it even came to a duel.
Bazarov is very attentive. In a short time, he studied the state of the Kirsanovs' estate, noticed that their men were cunning and lazy, and their cattle and horses were in a deplorable condition. He shared his observations with Arkady.
Option 4
The work was written during the period of peasant reform in Russia, when society was split into several layers, democrats eager for changes in the country and true conservatives who did not want to put up with the new order.
The main character of the novel is Evgeny Bazarov, a controversial and ambiguous person from a family of doctors.
Revealing the image of his character, the author describes Bazarov as an intelligent and quick-witted young man who is interested in natural sciences. He spent his childhood on his parents' village estate and, thanks to his modesty, won the respect of ordinary peasants.
Currently, Bazarov is graduating from university, planning to devote his life to medicine. Evgeniy works tirelessly, reading a mountain of literature, conducting experiments, because he considers the basis of a doctor’s work to be knowledge of the environment through experience.
Everything that concerns the manifestation of various feelings (love, forgiveness, affection, patience) has no meaning for Bazarov. He considers human feelings to be relics of an outdated past. The values and norms accepted in society are not recognized by Bazarov, his nihilistic worldview is to reject and deny all conventions.
Issues of innovations in the country that are related to the abolition of serfdom are of keen interest to Evgeniy, and he firmly advocates the liberation of the common people. Bazarov’s position is incomprehensible to his friend, Arkady Kirsanov, who does not consider the peasants equal in status to his family. Friends are desperately trying to prove to each other that their positions are right and all the arguments lead to the fact that their friendship is falling apart.
While visiting the Kirsanov family, Bazarov meets a young girl, Anna Odintsova, and suddenly realizes that, despite all his views, he has fallen in love. Evgeniy begins to experience a real all-consuming feeling and trembles with surging emotions. However, this feeling remains unrequited and Bazarov is forced to leave his beloved woman.
Soon he becomes fatally ill and, as a professional doctor, realizes that death from blood poisoning is imminent. Bazarov dies completely alone, worrying about his elderly parents. It is the approaching death that makes Bazarov think about the correctness and imperfection of the theory of nihilism.
By portraying the main character, the writer clearly makes it clear that Bazarov has no place in Russian reality where he could be happy and find long-awaited peace.
Essay 5
Definitely, Bazarov is one of the most interesting characters in Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”. Bazarov is a nihilist who rejects all feelings. Through the mouth of this hero, Turgenev expounds the views and attitudes of a new movement that arose in Russia in those years, called “nihilism.”
Evgeny Bazarov comes from an average family, and devoted his entire life to natural sciences and serving the country. Therefore, throughout the entire novel, Bazarov rejects everything: the power of love, friendship, nature. He sees the salvation of the country and its people only in the sciences: chemistry, physics, biology.
The motto of nihilists is to destroy everything old and come up with something new. But the main thing is that nihilists do not want to lead the construction of a “new” world; they consider it “not their business.”
Bazarov meets Anna Sergeevna Odintsova, with whom, without noticing it, he falls in love. He rejects his feelings for her, rejects her herself. He cannot accept that all his beliefs have failed. And the most important thing is that Evgeny cannot control his feelings himself; it is beyond his strength.
But on his deathbed he changes all his beliefs. This episode shows the evolution of the hero. He understands that he will not bring any benefit to his homeland just by cutting up frogs. Bazarov asks his parents to pray for him and says that salvation is in religion. Then he calls Anna Odintsova to see him for the last time. It is before this woman that Evgeniy opens up completely. He says that all his previous rules are worthless.
The hero is a very brave person. After all, you need to have enormous willpower to admit your mistakes and, even more so, to tell your beloved about them.
Bazarov is not afraid of the approach of his death. On the contrary, with some part of his soul he wants to leave this world, because his entire old world has collapsed, and nothing has been built in the new one. He won't be able to live any longer.
Thus, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev in the episode of Bazarov’s death shows how the hero developed throughout the novel, what mental conclusions he came to, how Bazarov’s commitment to nihilism was ruined. The author reveals all the richness of Evgeny Bazarov’s nature.
