Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”
As Vyashnikova finds, "One of the novel's major themes is that it is the children's fate to
become like their fathers."
However, Nikolais ability to feel fulfilment in nature and love, to enjoy music and arts is
something that in a way, makes him the hero of the novel. He together with changed arkadii
is capable to enjoy and lead a life fulfilment, unlike others.
While Nikolai is a man of the forties, Pavel is seemingly more a man of the 30s - similar to
Pechorins (Woodward 1996:30) Pavels views ar shown to bwelong to `narrow class
boundaries' (Dunaev 1883:199) Pavel is heavily satirised- anglomania, use of french, style.
The figure of the true aristocrat is represented by Pavel.
In Chapter X Bazarov criticises Pavels manner of speech-- , ,
, , -- , -- ,
... ! . As noted
by Woodward (1996:62) as "abstractions without meaning for the mass of the people with
which the gentry, he contents, contrieve to justify their indolence".
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