Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”
fruits " , ,
". Witnessing this situation makes Arkdays heart
ache perhaps in a way that Turgenev himself felt with the fate of ill-organised estates.
Marino's lacklustre management symbolises the futility of the gentry's attempts to modernize
- Nikolai stands as the ,,the economic failings of the gentry" (Dunaev: 1983:196). The
shortcomings of the Kirsanov management are even more obvious when subtly contrasted
with the well-organised Nikolskoe, ran by Odintsova a representative of the new
generation. Therefore the sad state of Marino can be seen as a symbol to the ineffective
establishment of the gentry, the generation of fathers.
Moreover, one of the climaxing issues of the era the liberation of serfs- surfaces in the
conversation, and Nikolai, despite adapting the obrok method, is not fully holding modernist
views - " , ,
, , .."
Ripp (1980) emphasizes, that although Nikolai finds himself as progressive and liberal,
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