Fathers and Sons Review: The Role of Sceneries in the Play

Which Roles Do Sceneries Play in the Novel “Fathers and Sons”?

Sceneries can be construed as maybe one of the most crucial means of expressing a person’s perception of the world. Pictures of nature are always full of spiritual, philosophical, and moral content. They are the picture of the world which defines the attitude of the person to the whole environment. It is a rather complicated and multidimensional entity that takes shape in the tradition of thinking, with many different historical sources and forms. The scenery is often given a minor role in the plot of a novel albeit it is often demonstrated how nature enters into human consciousness, changing into a symbol, lyrical reflection or even a warning in Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” The problem of poetics of the scenery in prose works is one of the most complex issue. The overriding point is to find out what role plays scenery in “Fathers and Sons” and whether it is bad or good.

In the first place, almost all of Turgenev’s works are characterized by wonderful landscape paintings of Russian nature (Axelrod, Mark). Furthermore, there is a huge amount of descriptions. “Fathers and Sons” just isn't an exception. A Russian village with children under dark, frequently half-sweaty roofs, with curved threshing sheds woven, with humus walls and yawning collar, having its ignorance, abortion, poverty, and complete devastation. The reality is depicted on the back ground of the stunning nature.

Secondly, in the epilogue of the novel, the author depicts a landscape reminiscent of a requiem (Axelrod, Mark). So, Turgenev sums up the end result of Bazarov’s life, showing how his personality dissolves against the back ground of eternal nature. Next, to the important points, whatever passionate, sinful, rebellious heart is hidden in the grave, the flowers growing about it look at people with their innocent eyes serenely. They cannot speak of one eternal tranquility to them, of the great tranquility of the indifferent nature. All in all, additionally they speak of eternal reconciliation and the life of the infinite.

Hence, the landscape in the novel can be an essential mean of reflecting the author’s position. By using the view, Turgenev expresses his attitude to Bazarov’s assertion that nature isn't a temple, but a workshop, contrasting it with a romantic picture of a summer evening. It should be noted that, in the novel “Fathers and Sons, ” there are much fewer descriptions of nature and lyrical digressions than in other works of Turgenev. It may be explained by the very genre of the socio-psychological novel, in which political disputes play the leading role, revealed through dialogue. It absolutely was through dialogue that mcdougal managed to reflect the ideological struggle, to illuminate the particular problems of his time from different points of view, and also to show the purity of nature.

Every conceivable indicator makes the purpose; all the artistic means of the novel are subordinated to its genre singularity, directed at revealing its ideological content. It happens very often the inner world of the characters wont reproduce them directly. It usually does occur through interests nature, which perceives an individual at that moment: “Whereas I think: I’m lying in a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is really infinitesimal when comparing to the rest of space, that we don’t occupy and with no relation to me. And the time scale in which I’m fated to reside is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist… But in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something… What chaos! Exactly what a farce! ” (Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich). Furthermore, the point is not only this the landscape can in some manner influence the mood of the hero itself in the novel, but also the fact the hero is very frequently in a situation of harmony with nature and their state of nature becomes his mood. This method allows Turgenev to reproduce thin, but at precisely the same time, the most interesting features of the smoothness of the hero.

Consequently, one of the most subtle methods of Turgenev’s psychology could be the image of the emotional state of the characters through the analogy with the state, construction of nature. In Turgenev`s novel, every one of the depicted sceneries make the last point in the narrative while they put up an emotional summary of living of the heroes.

In conclusion, everything that was mentioned above, nature is a temple, but not a workshop. Turgenev wanted to get this point clear. The attachment of the entire world of nature and the entire world of people, the representation of the first in the second made the novel “Fathers and Sons” unrivaled spiritual, sensual, and original good article compared to the novels of many other writers. True happiness is possible and last all life only in harmony with the outside world, and not violence over it. The heroes of Fathers and Sons” have proven this at first-hand.

Works Cited

Axerold, Mark. The Poetics Of Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. “Fathers and Sons. ” Barnes & Noble, www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fathers-and-sons-ivan-turgenev/1116670500?type=eBook.