Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”
young during the heavily oppressive rule of Tsar Nikolai I. For them, Tsar Alexander II's
reforms were very anticipated and progressive. However, the `sons' or younger intellectuals
saw these reforms were not fast or far-reaching enough. Thus, the generation of fathers is
seen in the prevailing gentry, `', who ruled over the serfs and lands. Turgenev
himself states, that «
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». (Pisma IV, 380). Accordingly, Sukikh (1971:312) agrees
that the progressive thinkers of the forties had lost their edge. This evaluation by the author
himself sets a tone through which the connotation of the portrayal of the `generation of
fathers' in Fathers and Sons can be assessed.
By taking the title in the broader sense as indicating a generational, rather than a
parental and filial relationship, the "generation of fathers" is represented by Nikolai
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