some favorite details

Briana 2022-07-08 22:34:01

1. A voyeuristic perspective. Onegin met Tatyana for the first time, and through the window he saw Tatyana come to his uncle's house to return a book. Onegin went to Tatyana’s house as a guest. Onegin picked up a piece of silverware in the living room to play with, and in the mirror saw Tatyana who was secretly observing him outside the window. Onegin is curious about a country girl who likes to borrow books. And Tatyana was also curious about the young nobleman who came to the countryside from St. Petersburg to inherit the manor. Tatyana saw Onegin lying on the shore through the reeds on the boat, with her hands and feet falling into the water freely. Onegin, seeing Tatyana leave, tells Lensky that if he were Lensky, he would choose Tatyana instead of Olga.

2. Tatyana opened the book "The New Heloise" lent to her by Onegin on the boat. There was an illustration of a man's silhouette in it. It looked like Onegin. Tatyana couldn't help touching the painting with her fingers. .

3. Tatyana, depressed by the results of the divination and suffering from love, wants to change her destiny and decides to write a letter to Onegin. Because he got the paper on the table to the ground in a panic, he simply lay down on the ground and wrote a letter. The fountain pen stained her hands, and she frantically wiped her hands with her white skirt, which was also stained with ink.

4. When Onegin opened the seal of the letter, he also opened Tatyana's heart.

5. Tatyana bows her head after Onegin rejects Tatyana. This is in line with the "beautiful head bowed" in the original novel.

6. Tatyana's letter was read through Tatyana's narration when Onegin returned to St. Petersburg. The picture here is the lady Tatyana and Onegin listening to a little girl playing the violin. The girl's violin plays a very intense melody, as hot as the content of Tatyana's love letter, and Tatyana's breathing follows The melody of the violin fluctuated, and Tatyana's beautiful body was wrapped in Chinese clothes, like Ge Weilong written in Zhang Ailing's first incense burner, "Her arms were like hot milk, poured out of the cyan jug, and the pipe also took care of it. Don't stop, the whole self is poured out."

7. Before Onegin wrote to Tatyana, he sharpened the tip of the pen with a knife. This implies that Onegin has not touched the pen for a long time, which is consistent with the description of Onegin in the original book. He always wanted to write something but Not a single word can flow from the tip of the pen.

8. After Tatyana received Onegin's love letter, although she glared at Onegin with reproach at the skating rink, her mood was still disturbed. At night she unusually took the initiative to kiss her husband, but the person in her heart was Onegin.

9. Onegin went to Tatyana's house to confess to her. The novel only describes Onegin kneeling at Tatyana's feet, but the dramatic performance must be gradual. From Onegin getting dressed up at home, to when he goes out to the temple of the goddess step by step. Tatyana's white dress is like a holy goddess. She first scolded her severely, but the distance between the two was still far away. When Tatyana said that she still missed the old days, his eyes lit up with hope, and he took a step closer. Forced to ask Tatyana, "Has your heart healed?" until she knelt at her feet and said, "Say you love me, even if you lie to me." Tatyana said, "I love you, but I am a woman." Negin's eyes immediately turned remorseful. All body movements and lines follow the emotions and are done in one go.

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Onegin quotes

  • Evgeny Onegin: [writing to Tatyana] I can forsee the bitter scorn blazing at me from your proud eyes when you have read my secret sorrow. When we first met, through chance, I saw tenderness like a shooting star but did not dare to put my faith in it. Then Lensky fell, which parted us til further. Then I tore my heart away from everything I loved, rootless, estranged from all, I thought that liberty and peace would serve instead of happiness. My God, how wrong I was. How I have been punished. No, day by day to be with you, follow you everywhere, alive to every smile, each movement of your eyes, to dwell upon you soul's perfection, listen to your voice and grow faint with yearning. That is bliss and I'm cut off from it. My time is short, each day and hour is precious yet I just drag myself around in boredom. Everyday a desert unless when I wake up I know the day will bring a glimpse of you. If you but knew the flames that burn in me, which I attempt to beat down with my reason, but let it be. I cannot struggle against my feelings anymore, I am entirely in your will.

  • Evgeny Onegin: When will the devil take me?