Premium Content Destroyers in the Name of Progress: Bazarov in "Fathers and Sons" and Mr. Fortune in “A View of the Woods”
By Anonymous - November 24, 2008
The destruction of tradition in the name of progress exists in Flannery O’Connor’s “A View of the Woods” and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons through the main protagonists in each work. Bazarov is the central character of Fathers and Sons: he is a young nihilist who challenges the traditional Russian aristocracy and the older generation of…
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