Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”
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aesthetic sense of the gentry is shown as Nikolai plays Schubert's "Erwartung" on his cello -
albeit being not that skilful.
As of Pavel he is beautifully appointed room is more likely a reflection of his social status
and Anglomania than of any particular aesthetic sensibilities. Bazarov feels some kind of pity
towards Pavel, he finds that a man must be his own master, not trapped in the aristocratic
emotionality. the true aristocrats - the anglomaniacs, westernists, the ,,Pechorin types".
Larding their chatter with foreign phrases typical to the gentry.. e destruction of patriarchal
and monarchical illusion Religion allied with feudalism, odd aristocratic sentimentality,
Bucolic life.
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The love-story between the peasant and the landlord symbolises an underlying problem of the
society on the eve of Emancipation in 1861 (the serfs were emancipated by royal decree in
1861, novel set in 1959)
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