I hadn’t really thought about it this way before but I suppose you’re right. With English literature we are programmed to expect a happy ending, even if the rest of the story has been depressing, and a sad ending is quite shocking. In English novels a character is faced with a problem and by the end they have managed to overcome that problem. In Russian literature it is often the problem that overcomes the character.
Just a random thought: Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky are somewhat similar to Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Yet the outcome is very different. I believe mainly because Darcy was at the same time more snobbish and noble in his heart than Onegin which prevented him from fooling with Jane out of boredom and irritation.
it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting for this is the end of everyone and the living will take it to heart from the ecclesiastes 7;3
I hadn’t really thought about it this way before but I suppose you’re right. With English literature we are programmed to expect a happy ending, even if the rest of the story has been depressing, and a sad ending is quite shocking. In English novels a character is faced with a problem and by the end they have managed to overcome that problem. In Russian literature it is often the problem that overcomes the character.
As they say in Poland: "Hope is a mother of fools".
Brilliant! It's much better than Russian proverb "The hope dies the last"
It's the landscape.
Just a random thought: Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky are somewhat similar to Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Yet the outcome is very different. I believe mainly because Darcy was at the same time more snobbish and noble in his heart than Onegin which prevented him from fooling with Jane out of boredom and irritation.
Or may be Onegin is actually more like Wickham??? 😨
it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting for this is the end of everyone and the living will take it to heart from the ecclesiastes 7;3