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Pastrnak Vs Zhivago

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As an author, Boris Pasternak has written novels, poems, and short stories, and all are influential in some way. Instead of drawing worlds of fantasy in his mind, he drew inspiration from the world around him. His novels are set in the span of his lifetime and revolve around the changes and struggles of a war-torn Russia. Authors can write their characters in any way they want. In Dr. Zhivago, the similarities between Pasternak and Yuri Zhivago become more and more prevalent as the story goes on. It seems that both Pasternak and Yuri Zhivago had relationship troubles. Pasternak married his first wife Evgenia Lourié in 1922, but they split before 1931 (Mansour). Pastrnak then married Zinaïda Neuhaus in 1934, and he remained married to her …show more content…

He was exempted from WWI military service because of a childhood injury (Croft; Kashuba). During the first World War, Yuri Zhivago worked as a military doctor. (Pasternak 101) Pastrnak might have written Yuri as a military doctor because he felt some level of guilt that he was excused from service. There are multiple instances where Yuri Zhivago had sympathetic moments towards those affected by war. One time, when Yuri and a comrade are passing by a village of Jews, Yuri expressed his thoughts on how irrational the hatred towards them was. (Pasternak 119) At another point, Yuri was forced to fire on the front lines in self defense, all he could think about was how the opposing side was made up of innocent children. He fired into enemy lines but solely at a lone tree in an attempt to avoid hitting anyone (Pasternak …show more content…

During his studies in 1911, Pasternak started to write his first collection of poems with heavy inspiration from the futurist Mayakovsky (Brunsdale). After the first Russian Revolution of 1917, Pasternak began to write with more vigor, and he completed his second collection (Mansour; Brunsdale). It wasn’t until Yuri Zhivago and his family moved to Varykino in the Urals that he started writing poems as a pastime (Pasternak 277-286). Before that point, Yuri had stayed devoted to his studies and practice as a

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