The purpose of this study is to show that Onegin's feelings are a condition of a modern individual by dealing with the depression, anxiety, and boredom that Onegin feels in the dimension of existence. In particular, this paper focuses on boredom and tries to clarify the existence of Onegin through the modern character of boredom and the sense of emptiness it brings about. Boredom is an image of the modern age that came with the death of God, and thus boredom is a characteristic of existential human beings based on emptiness and emptiness. This is also the reason why we must pay attention to (early) romanticism when dealing with boredom as a modern phenomenon. Friedrich Schlegel, who founded romanticism, pointed out the self-reflective and contradictory characteristics of romanticism through the concept of “romantic irony”. Romanticism takes longing for the ideal world as its main value, but the loss of the ideal and the resulting despair are inevitable, and irony arises here. Likewise with boredom, in a world without God, individuals must find meaning for themselves, but such attempts always fail in reality, so individuals are bound to fall into boredom. Inability to find meaning forever corresponds to inability to attain ideals, and self-consciousness leads to this fact. In this way, humans in the boredom of lack of meaning endeavor to overcome boredom by constantly changing objects and situations, but boredom cannot be completely resolved. Human boredom caused by the impossibility of meaning becomes the root cause of obscuring Onegin's identity. Onegin's trajectory, constantly flowing from city to countryside and back to travel, shows the existential life of humans that cannot be anchored forever.
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