Yevgeny Vassilievitch Bazarov Character Analysis

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Yevgeny Vassilievitch Bazarov “Beliefs” Yevgeny Vassilievitch Bazarov, who is in the book Fathers and Sons, is a nihilist and a medical student that Arkady Kirsanoff, a young man in college, viewed as his mentor. Since Bazarov is a nihilist it means that he doesn’t believe in anything and that he accepts nothing.Bazarov, being a medical student, believes that he is always right when it comes to facts but in reality he doesn’t know as much as he thought he did. In Fathers and Sons Bazarov is someone that believes that he knows everything but when it comes to love he doesn’t know as much as he thought he did. Bazarov was in a lot of arguments throughout the book due to the fact that he thought he knew everything and thought he was right …show more content…

When Bazarov returns to Nikolai’s farm, Arkady’s dads farm, he goes to see Fenichka. “Wait a moment; I want to smell it with you,’ said Bazarov; he bent down and kissed her vigorously on her parted lips” (Turgenev 122). Bazarov trying to kiss Fenichka makes the reader think of why he did it. Him trying to kiss Fenichka may have had something to do with his problems with Anna. Him not believing in love may have brought him to try and kiss Fenichka because he was trying to see what “love” is. In Fathers and Sons the character Bazarov is a nihilist, which means he believes in nothing. Him not believing in anything means that he doesn’t believe in love but he states to Anna that he loves her. Him not believing in love makes it hard to think that he actually loves her. His little incident with Fenichka made some of the readers think that he wants to know more about love so he can try to prove to Anna that he actually did love her. Bazarov thinking that he knows everything makes the audience believe that when it comes to love he doesn’t know as much as he thought he

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