CALENDAR: ANALYSIS OF TIME IN THE NOVEL “EUGENE ONEGIN”

Abstract

The task of the paper is to identify the connection between calendar time and plot time in the novel. The author discusses on how calendar time helps to show human life and folk tradition. The innovative side of the study is the calendar, considered as a symbol of the way. So, the paper shows the connection of calendar time with characters and Russian culture, how through the calendar Pushkin’s attitude to the characters is displayed. Therefore, the paper proves that the time reflects development of people’s fate, the life of each character in accordance with the calendar time as the plot develops. Correlation of historical, personal, calendar and accidental time categories is analyzed, including their role in the development of the plot. Although each character has his own seemingly pre-determined events, which arranged following the time, but it is also full of coincidences.