Then he loses his friend and love and all this because of his conditionality. Nevertheless Eugene is honest and kind and he explains everything to her like a real gentleman. He meets love but he does not want to get it because he is sure that he is too much spoiled for the family life and he tries to reassure Tatyana that it is so. But Onegin’s fight against this world is passive. He is bored of the entertainments he has everyday and he just wants to run away from this way of life. Onegin is critical to himself and it is very important for the evolution of his character. He was really ill with the social disease of the epoch. That was the range of interests which made his life happy. Onegin had a typical way of life: restaurants, theatres, walks and love adventures. Nevertheless Pushkin makes an accent on the intellectual abilities of the character.

Though the author does not pay much attention to this and says just that everybody liked Onegin because of his charm. The term “another person” includes the following characteristics: outstanding nature, critical thinking, striving for life sense understanding, disappointment, soul emptiness, and personal dramas.Įugene Onegin got the usual education for his time he was good in many subjects such as Latin, history, and politics. So, Pushkin tried to define the initial reasons of this phenomenon in the character of Onegin: shallow education, the imitation of European culture, conditionality and prejudice of life of the epoch, and laziness. Later other writers concentrated on this problem and showed he whole epoch in social life of Russia. The character of Onegin was the first example of “another person” in Russian literature.

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin