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A 6 page paper describing this classic in Russian literature as one written at the brink of significant new change. During the era of Fathers & Sons, there was still a large servant class in Russia. The writer argues that "Fathers & Sons" illustrated differences occurring since an older, more transitional change, -- showing contrasts between old & new, rich & poor, etc; Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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significant new change and one that illustrated differences occurring since an older, more transitional change. 1859s Russian society was markedly different than that which would arrive only less than
half-of-a-decade later. During the era of Fathers & Sons, there was still a large servant class in Russia. In fact, Tugenevy shows us two contrasting kinds of slaves
in his book: the old-fashioned "family retainer" type (such as Prokofitch at Kirsanovs, Timofeitch at Bazarovs) grateful for their acceptance and security in the household, and the younger, brazen and
insolent men of the future (like Piotr at Kirsanovs) who affect foppish airs and sniff their freedom in the wind. Undoubtedly, this degree of contrast between old and new
is by no means limited to the peasants either. As a story of thematically of what was and of what would be, Turgenevs Fathers & Sons offers us a
perennial examination of inevitable disparities that existed between generations. Historically, most of Russias population in 1859 did of course, belong to the peasantry.
It was their freedom which the young reformers so zealously sought. But the peasants, as we see them at Kirsanovs, are a distasteful lot, corrupted by their centuries of
oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it, rather go off on a binge than cultivate their land.
Then, there is the old-generation poor. In the old Bazarovs we see a class of unsuccessful, unenlightened conservatives. Their minds grown rusty, they live by emotion
and superstition, not knowledge and enlightenment. They are gentle and loving and totally ineffective in a land which must meet the future by revolution. While the poor Bazarovs are pathetic
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