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First Love: Pathway To Adulthood - College Term Papers

First Love: Pathway To Adulthood



Love is one of the strongest emotions that a human being can feel. It
can arise ever so suddenly, spreading a feeling of warm happiness through every
inch of a person; like wildfire spreading through a tree. But as the feelings
become more intense, the flame of passion can turn into a blazing fire that
burns painfully through every vein. A person's first love is especially
powerful because it grows from an innocent, naïve passion. Such was the case
for both Vladimir, in Turgenev's First Love, and Tatyana, in Pushkin's Eugene
Onegin. The first experience of unrequited love for Vladimir and Tatyana was
filled with these raptures and tribulations, which, although left them ...

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help himself from
becoming infatuated with her because he didn't know the first thing about love.
As the genre moves on, Vladimir's feelings for Zinaida became deeper and deeper.
Vladimir thought to himself:

I felt weary and at peace, but the image of Zinaida still hovered triumphant
over my soul, though even this image seemed more tranquil. Like a swan rising
from the grasses of the marsh, it stood out from the unlovely shapes which
surrounded it, and I, as I fell asleep, in parting for the last time clung to it,
in trusting adoration. (48)

Vladimir allows himself to become completely wrapped up in Zinaida to the point
where it becomes an obsession. He is in love with her so much that he even
envisions himself rescuing her, as if from any other man: "I saw a vision of
myself saving her from the hands of her enemies: I imagined how, covered with
blood, I tore her from the very jaws of some dark dungeon and then died at her
feet (71-72)." Vladimir was so lost in love for ...

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