![]() ![]() Bazarov’s antagonist, Pavel Petrovich, Arkady’s uncle, with whom Bazarov fights a duel, also ends the novel unmarried, childless, and “for all intents and purposes” dead (253). ![]() He dies at the end of the novel, under conditions that suggest a willfulness indifference to his own life if not suicide and he betrays nihilism as he understands it during the course of the novel. There are good reasons to think that Bazarov as a nihilist is less a hero than a foil. marriage, the Church, and the beautiful) and openly defends the proposition that he believes in nothing. He radically opposes the established order (esp. Arkady has brought with him Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist and a friend from school, who is planning on visiting before he returns home to his family and especially his decent peasant father, Vassily Ivanych.īazarov and his nihilism steal the show at the book’s onset. ![]() Arkady is reunited with his father, Nikolai Petrovich, on their rural estate, just as measures are being taken to emancipate the serfs. Two fathers, a downscale gentleman and a peasant, have sent their sons to the university, and the book begins as the graduates return home. Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons concerns above all the challenge of handing down ways from fathers to sons in a confused, seemingly progressive society. ![]()
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