Monster Essays - First Love: Vladimir's Voyage
First Love: Vladimir's Voyage
In Turgenev's First Love, Vladimir's journey from boyish love to maturity is a tumultuous, burdensome, and often painful expedition. This pilgrimage is a transition from the consuming passions of the young and restless heart to the sound maturity of adulthood. The chief purpose of this undergoing is to leave the inexperienced wanderer with a steadfast outlook on love, life, and the nature of human relationships. For Vladimir Petrovich this expedition is confounded by an unrequited and unfulfilled love that can be seen at every cobblestone of the way. So difficult is his ....
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