First Love: Pathway To Adulthood :: essays research papers

runner Love Pathway to AdulthoodLove is mavin of the strongest emotions that a human being can feel. Itcan arise incessantly so suddenly, spreading a feeling of warm happiness finished everyinch of a person like wildfire spreading through a tree. But as the feelingsbecome more intense, the flame of high temperature can turn into a blazing fire thatburns distressingly through every vein. A persons first love is especially hefty because it grows from an innocent, nave passion. Such was the casefor both Vladimir, in Turgenevs First Love, and Tatyana, in Pushkins EugeneOnegin. The first experience of unrequited love for Vladimir and Tatyana wasfilled with these raptures and tribulations, which, although left them befuddledhearted, gave them the strength and maturity needed to become adults.     Throughout the genre of First Love, Vladimir was shown to be completelyswooped up in overwhelming emotion for Zinaida. Vladimir was charmed with herbeauty from the mom ent he first saw her, "I gazed at her, and how dear shealready was to me , and how near. It seemed to me that I had known her for along time, and that before egest her I had known nothing and had not lived. (33)"Vladimir was in love at the first sight of her. He couldnt help himself frombecoming infatuated with her because he didnt know the first thing about love.As the genre moves on, Vladimirs feelings for Zinaida became deeper and deeper.Vladimir purpose to himselfI felt weary and at peace, but the image of Zinaida until now hovered triumphantover my soul, though correct this image seemed more tranquil. the likes of a swan risingfrom the grasses of the marsh, it stood out from the unlovely shapes whichsurrounded 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 peakwhere it becomes an obsession. He is in love with her so much that he evenenvisions himself rescuing her, as if from any other man "I saw a vision ofmyself saving her from the hands of her enemies I imagined how, covered withblood, I tear her from the very jaws of some dark dungeon and then died at herfeet (71-72)." Vladimir was so lost in love for Zinaida that he fantasizedabout her in post to make their love seem real. Although Vladimirs obsessivelove for Zinaida brought wonderful emotions, it similarly brought the pain andsuffering of jealousy and rejection.     The raptures that Vladimir experienced went hand in hand with the