(257 words) “The word about Turgenev should begin with a gentle female name and the golden name of Pushkin,” wrote Konstantin Balmont. Indeed, the type of Turgenev’s girl originates from Pushkin’s Tatyana, who entered the literature as an image of a devoted, loving, but at the same time, strong heroine. Refusing the primitive copying of life and involuntarily poeticizing it, Turgenev embodies in his works an ideal, but therefore no less lively and mobile in its development image of a girl in which spiritual maturity and youthful passion are harmoniously combined.
Asya is a freedom-loving heroine, accustomed to trusting the natural attraction of the heart in any life situation. Her actions are determined by a sincere emotional impulse in which there is no cunning and coquetry. Asi’s childish immediacy denies and despises everything artificial and false, so often the young heroine suffers from loneliness and misunderstanding. For the first time in love, she surrenders to a new feeling for her with all the fullness and passion, albeit a childish, but deep soul. Faced with the lover's indecision, Asya is at a loss: she is ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of love, devoting her whole life to her, but does not find a reciprocal readiness in her chosen one. The girl’s hopes for near and long-awaited happiness are not destined to come true: the hero fears responsibility, is afraid of his own feelings and a possible future. He runs from love, refusing probable happiness.
Such tragedy and paradoxical feelings underlies Turgenev's artistic method: the writer creates contrasting images of two heroes, in the collision of which reveals the true stamina of one and the spiritual weakness of the other. Female images of the writer are always whole and strong-willed, capable of action. Male, on the contrary - faceless, devoid of a spiritual core. The struggle of two opposites always leads to a tragic denouement, but the winner here is always the Turgenev heroine, who conquers the reader with the power of feelings and inner heroism.