Fathers and Children

“My whole story is directed against the nobility as an advanced class. Look at the faces of Nikolai Petrovich, Pavel Petrovich, Arkady. Weakness and lethargy or limitation, ”so Turgenev explains the plan of his novel. Moreover, he takes “it is good representatives of the nobility”, showing: “If the cream is bad, what is the milk?”
Evgeny Bazarov is the main character, a nihilist and a rampant who opens against both liberal ideas and conservative ones. The uncompromisingness and priority of the useful over the beautiful is the two main principles of the young doctor, who has become an example to imitate youth of the 1860s. A stranger for everyone, Bazarov suddenly feels in himself what he obviously renounced from the useless - love. But can he be a slave to his passion?