Fathers and Sons. Turgenev I.S.

“The whole story is directed against the nobility as an advanced class. Look at the faces of Nikolai Petrovich, Pavel Petrovich, Arkady. Weakness and lethargy or limitation, ”so Turgenev explains the plan of his novel. Moreover, he takes “precisely good representatives of the nobility”, showing: “If the cream is bad, what is milk?”

Evgeny Bazarov - the main character, a nihilist and a rampant who opposes both liberal ideas and conservative ones. The uncompromisingness and priority of the useful over the beautiful is the two main principles of the young doctor, who has become an example to imitate youth of the 1860s. A stranger for everyone, Bazarov suddenly feels in himself what he obviously renounced from the useless - love. But can he be a slave to his passion?..