Turgenev, A Romantic

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love by not knowing themselves and giving them both powerful ending of death in order to show that one cannot live without love and no one can find love if they don’t fully understand themselves.
Turgenev makes it clear to the reader that Bazarov does not know himself and has no interest in learning about the individual. As a scientist, Bazarov is only interested in a species and that would include human beings. “I’ll cut the frogs open and look inside to see what is going on; since you and I are just like frogs, except that we walk on two legs, I’ll find what’s going on inside us as well.”(Turgenev 15) This quote demonstrates how Bazarov is able to acquire information about humans. While he could find physical resemblance in frogs and humans, he could never use a frog to understand human feelings and even his own feelings. He equates frogs with humans in saying “since you and I are just like frogs” and in doing this, he shows that he thinks that all humans are the same in every ...

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accuracy. The denial of acting upon his love for Anna drives him to become unlike himself and leads to his self-destruction.
“What do you mean, yours? How so? What cut? Where?” “Right here on my finger. Today I went to the village- you know, the one from which they brought the man with typhus. For some reason they wanted to have an autopsy performed, and I hadn’t done one in a long time.””‘Well?” “Well, I asked the local doctor if I could; and well, I cut myself.” (Turgenev 145)
In losing his love for Anna, Bazarov becomes more careless with his life and because of this he makes a careless mistake that could have been avoided if he had been more attentive. Bazarov kills himself ...

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