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Analysis of the story "The Overcoat"
Thinkers and literary scholars often agree that Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol has become the most mysterious Russian writer. In this article we will look at the analysis of the story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol, trying to penetrate into the subtle intricacies of the plot, and Gogol is a master at building such plots
The story "The Overcoat" is a story about one "little man" named Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. He served as the simplest copyist in an unremarkable county town, in the office. However, the reader can think about what the meaning of a person’s life might be, and a thoughtful approach cannot be done here, which is why we are analyzing the story “The Overcoat.”
The main character of "The Overcoat" So, main character Akakiy Bashm Achkin was a "little man". This concept is widely used in Russian literature. However more attracts attention to his character, lifestyle, values and attitude. He doesn't need anything. He looks distantly at what is happening around him, there is emptiness inside him, and in fact, his slogan in life is: “Please leave me alone.” Are there such people today? All around. And they are not interested in the reaction of others, they care little about who thinks what about them. But is this right? For example, Akakiy Bashmachkin. He often hears ridicule from fellow officials. They make fun of him, saying offensive words and competing in wit. Sometimes Bashmachkin will remain silent, and sometimes, looking up, he will answer: “Why is that?”
Analyzing this side of the "Overcoat", the problem becomes visible social tension.
Bashmachkin's character
Akaki passionately loved his work, and this was the main thing in his life. He was engaged in rewriting documents, and his work could always be called neat, clean, and done with diligence. What did this petty official do at home in the evenings? After dinner at home, having returned from work, Akaki Akakievich walked back and forth around the room, slowly living through long minutes and hours. Then he sank into a chair and throughout the evening he could be found writing regularly.
The meaning of a person’s life in work is petty and joyless. Here is further confirmation of this idea. Then, after such leisure time, Bashmachkin goes to bed, but what are his thoughts about in bed? About what he will copy at the office tomorrow. He thought about it, and it made him happy.
The meaning of life This official, who was a “little man” and was already in his sixth decade, had the most primitive thing: take paper, dip a pen in an inkwell and write endlessly - carefully and with diligence. However, another goal in Akaki’s life nevertheless appeared. Other details of the analysis of the story "The Overcoat" Akaki had a very small salary in the service. He was paid thirty-six rubles a month, and almost all of it went towards food and housing. A harsh winter has come - an icy wind blew and frost struck. And Bashmachkin wears worn-out clothes that cannot keep him warm on a frosty day. Here Nikolai Gogol very accurately describes the situation of Akaki, his old shabby overcoat, and the actions of the official. Akaki Akakievich decides to go to the workshop to repair his overcoat. He asks the tailor to fill the holes, but he announces that the overcoat cannot be repaired, and there is only one way out - to buy a new one. For this thing, porno calls a gigantic amount (for Akaki) - eighty rubles. Bashmachkin doesn’t have that kind of money; he’ll have to save it, and to do this he’ll have to enter a very economical lifestyle. Doing an analysis here, you might think why this “little man” goes to such extremes: he stops drinking tea in the evenings, doesn’t give laundry to the laundress once again, walks so that his shoes are washed less... Is it really all for the sake of the new overcoat that he then lose it? But this is his new joy in life, his goal.
Gogol is trying to encourage the reader to think, what is most important in life, what to give priority to.
We briefly reviewed the plot, but isolated from it only those details that are needed in order to make a clear analysis of the story "The Overcoat". The main character is spiritually and physically untenable. He does not strive for the best, his condition is poor, he is not a person. After another goal appears in life, other than rewriting papers, he seems to change. Now Akaki is focused on buying an overcoat. Gogol shows us the other side. How callously and unfairly those around Bashmachkin treat him. He endures ridicule and bullying. On top of everything else, the meaning of his life disappears after Akakiy’s new overcoat is taken away. He is deprived of his last joy, again Bashmachkin is sad and lonely. Here, during the analysis, Gogol’s goal is visible - to show the harsh truth of that time. The “little people” were destined to suffer and die; no one needed them and were uninteresting. Just like the death of the Shoemaker was not of interest to those around him and those who could help him. You read brief analysis the story "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol. In our literary blog you will find many articles on various topics, including analyzes of works.
Brief Analysis
Year of writing – 1841.
History of creation– the story is based on an anecdote with a similar plot.
Subject- subject " little man”, a protest against social orders that limit the individual.
Composition– the narrative is built on the principle of “being”. Exposition – Short story Bashmachkin's life, the beginning - the decision about the need to change the overcoat, the climax - the theft of the overcoat and the clash with the indifference of the authorities, the denouement - the illness and death of the main character, the epilogue - news of a ghost stealing the overcoat.
Genre- story. It has a bit in common with the genre of “lives” of saints. Many researchers find similarities between the plot and the life of St. Akaki of Sinai. This is indicated by the hero’s numerous humiliations and wanderings, his patience and refusal of worldly joys, and death.
Direction– critical realism.
In “The Overcoat,” analysis of a work is impossible without the background that prompted the author to create the work. A certain P.V. Annenkov in his memoirs notes an incident when, in the presence of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, a “clerical anecdote” was told about a minor official who lost his gun, for the purchase of which he had been saving for a long time. Everyone found the joke very funny, but the writer became gloomy and deep in thought, this was in 1834. Five years later, the plot will emerge in Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” artistically rethought and creatively reworked. This creation backstory seems very plausible.
It is important to note that writing the story was difficult for the writer; perhaps some emotional, personal experiences played a role: he was able to finish it only in 1841, thanks to the pressure of M. V. Pogodin, a famous publisher, historian and scientist.
In 1843 the story was published. It belongs to the cycle of “Petersburg Tales” and becomes the final and most ideologically rich. The author changed the name of the main character throughout the work on the work Tishkevich - Bashmakevich - Bashmachkin).
The title of the story itself underwent several changes (“The Tale of an Official Stealing an Overcoat”) before the final and most accurate version reached us – “The Overcoat.” Critics accepted the work calmly; during the author’s lifetime it was not particularly noted. Only a century later it became clear that “The Overcoat” had a huge influence on Russian literature, on the historical understanding of the era and the formation literary trends. Gogol’s “little man” was reflected in the works of many writers and poets, creating a whole wave of similar, no less brilliant, works.
The work is structured in such a way that we trace the entire life of the main character, starting from the moment of birth (where the story of why he was named Akaki is mentioned) and until the most tragic point - the death of the titular adviser.
The plot is based on revealing the image of Akaki Akakievich, his clash with social order, power and the indifference of people. The problems of an insignificant creature do not concern the powers that be; no one notices his life, and even his death. Only after death will justice prevail in the fantastic part of the story - about a night ghost taking away overcoats from passers-by.
Issues“The Overcoat” covers all the sins of a well-fed, soulless world, makes the reader look around and notice those who are just as “small and defenseless” as the main character. Main thought The story is a protest against the lack of spirituality of society, against orders that humiliate a person morally, financially and physically. The meaning of Bashmachkin’s phrase “Leave... why are you offending me?
” – contains both moral, spiritual and biblical context. What the work teaches us: how not to treat your neighbor. Idea Gogol's goal is to show the powerlessness of a small personality in front of a huge world of people who are indifferent to the grief of others.
Composition
The composition is built on the principle of the lives or “walkings” of saints and martyrs. The entire life of the main character, from birth to death, is a painful feat, a battle for truth and a test of patience and self-sacrifice.
The whole life of the hero of “The Overcoat” is an empty existence, a conflict with social order - the only act that he tried to commit in his life. In the exposition of the story, we learn brief information about the birth of Akaki Bashmachkin, why he was called that, about the work and inner world of the character. The essence of the plot is to show the need to acquire a new thing (if you look deeper - a new life, dramatic, bold changes).
The climax is the attack on the main character and his confrontation with the indifference of the authorities. The denouement is the last meeting with a “significant person” and the death of the character. The epilogue is a fantastic (in Gogol's favorite style - satirical and terrifying) story about a ghost who takes overcoats from passers-by and eventually gets to his offender. The author emphasizes the powerlessness of man to change the world and achieve justice. Only in the “other” reality is the main character strong, endowed with power, feared, and he boldly says to the offender’s eyes what he did not have time to say during his lifetime.
Main characters
We wrote a separate article about the heroes of the work - The main characters of "The Overcoat".
The story about the titular adviser is based on the principle of the lives of the saints. The genre is defined as a story, due to the scale of the substantive plan of the work. The story of a titular adviser who fell in love with his profession became a kind of parable and acquired philosophical overtones. The work can hardly be considered realistic, given the ending. She turns the work into a phantasmagoria, where bizarre unreal events, visions, and strange images intersect.
Reasoning
What is indifference?
An example of indifference from N.V. Gogol’s work “The Overcoat” (Unified State Examination in Russian)
What is indifference? I'll try to think about this. I believe that indifference is one of the lowest and most vile feelings, characterized by a complete lack of compassion and understanding for other people. It seems to me that indifference can be attributed to the main signs of a lack of humanism.
To support this, I will give an example from Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s story “The Overcoat”. The main character of the work, Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin, who works as a titular adviser, is constantly mocked by his colleagues for the sake of laughter. Timid and whimsical, Akaki Akakievich endures all this and can only fight back if he is prevented from working. Officials do not think about the pain, suffering and insult they cause to a person, thereby revealing their indifference and heartlessness.
An example of indifference can be found in modern society. Increasingly in the news, the Internet and in social networks Video clips appear in which passers-by simply pass by a person who has become ill on the street, trying not to pay any attention to him. This whole situation is incredibly terrible!!! After all, a person can die because people do not take any measures to provide help. And the scary thing is that many do not realize the full responsibility in such difficult moments. Alas, over time, indifference penetrates more and more into the hearts of people who do not understand, or rather do not want to understand, that it will destroy them. It was not for nothing that Gorky said: “Do not be indifferent, for indifference is deadly to the human soul.”
So, we can say that indifference is one of the most important vices of humanity. I would like to believe that in the future people will become kinder and more responsive to each other. I am sure that only in a society where respect and compassion reign can a person feel happy.
Indifference
Tale by N.V. Gogol's "Overcoat".
Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin is constantly mocked by his colleagues for the sake of laughter. They do not think about the pain, suffering and insult they cause to a person, showing indifference and heartlessness.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is one of the most significant figures in Russian literature. It is he who is rightly called the founder of critical realism, the author who clearly described the image of the “little man” and made it central in Russian literature of that time. Subsequently, many writers used this image in their works. It is no coincidence that F. M. Dostoevsky uttered the phrase in one of his conversations: “We all came out of Gogol’s overcoat.”
History of creation
Literary critic Annenkov noted that N.V. Gogol often listened to jokes and various stories that were told in his circle. Sometimes it happened that these anecdotes and comical stories inspired the writer to create new works. This happened with “Overcoat”. According to Annenkov, Gogol once heard a joke about a poor official who was very fond of hunting. This official lived in deprivation, saving on everything just to buy himself a gun for his favorite hobby. And now, the long-awaited moment has arrived - the gun has been purchased. However, the first hunt was not successful: the gun got caught in the bushes and sank. The official was so shocked by the incident that he came down with a fever. This anecdote did not make Gogol laugh at all, but, on the contrary, gave rise to serious thoughts. According to many, it was then that the idea of writing the story “The Overcoat” arose in his head.
During Gogol's lifetime, the story did not provoke significant critical discussions and debates. This is due to the fact that at that time writers quite often offered their readers comic works about the life of poor officials. However, the significance of Gogol’s work for Russian literature was appreciated over the years. It was Gogol who developed the theme of the “little man” protesting against the laws in force in the system and pushed other writers to further explore this theme.
Description of the work
Main character Gogol's work- junior civil servant Bashmachkin Akakiy Akakievich, who was constantly unlucky. Even in choosing a name, the official’s parents were unsuccessful; in the end, the child was named after his father.
The life of the main character is modest and unremarkable. He lives in a small rented apartment. He occupies a minor position with a meager salary. By adulthood, the official never acquired a wife, children, or friends.
Bashmachkin wears an old faded uniform and a holey overcoat. One day, severe frost forces Akaki Akakievich to take his old overcoat to a tailor for repairs. However, the tailor refuses to repair the old overcoat and says it is necessary to buy a new one.
The price of an overcoat is 80 rubles. This is a lot of money for a small employee. In order to collect the necessary amount, he denies himself even small human joys, of which there are not many in his life. After some time, the official manages to save the required amount, and the tailor finally sews the overcoat. The acquisition of an expensive item of clothing is a grandiose event in the miserable and boring life of an official.
One evening Akaki Akakievich was caught up on the street famous people and took away the overcoat. The upset official goes with a complaint to a “significant person” in the hope of finding and punishing those responsible for his misfortune. However, the “general” does not support the junior employee, but, on the contrary, reprimands him. Bashmachkin, rejected and humiliated, was unable to cope with his grief and died.
At the end of the work, the author adds a little mysticism. After the funeral of the titular councilor, a ghost began to be noticed in the city, which took overcoats from passers-by. A little later, this same ghost took the overcoat from that same “general” who scolded Akaki Akakievich. This served as a lesson for the important official.
Main characters
The central figure of the story is a pathetic civil servant who has been doing routine and uninteresting work all his life. His work lacks opportunities for creativity and self-realization. Monotony and monotony literally consume the titular adviser. All he does is rewrite papers that no one needs. The hero has no loved ones. He spends his free evenings at home, sometimes copying papers “for himself.” The appearance of Akaki Akakievich creates an even stronger effect; the hero becomes truly sorry. There is something insignificant in his image. The impression is strengthened by Gogol's story about the constant troubles befalling the hero (either an unfortunate name, or baptism). Gogol perfectly created the image of a “little” official who lives in terrible hardships and fights the system every day for his right to exist.
Officials (collective image of bureaucracy)
Gogol, talking about Akaki Akakievich’s colleagues, focuses on such qualities as heartlessness and callousness. The unfortunate official's colleagues mock and make fun of him in every possible way, without feeling an ounce of sympathy. The whole drama of Bashmachkin’s relationship with his colleagues is contained in the phrase he said: “Leave me alone, why are you offending me?”
"Significant person" or "general"
Gogol does not mention either the first or last name of this person. Yes, it doesn’t matter. Rank and position on the social ladder are important. After the loss of his overcoat, Bashmachkin, for the first time in his life, decides to defend his rights and goes with a complaint to the “general”. Here the “little” official is faced with a tough, soulless bureaucratic machine, the image of which is contained in the character of a “significant person”.
Analysis of the work
In the person of his main character, Gogol seems to unite all the poor and humiliated people. Bashmachkin's life is an eternal struggle for survival, poverty and monotony. Society with its laws does not give the official the right to a normal human existence and humiliates his dignity. At the same time, Akaki Akakievich himself agrees with this situation and resignedly endures hardships and difficulties.
The loss of the overcoat is a turning point in the work. It forces the “little official” to declare his rights to society for the first time. Akaki Akakievich goes with a complaint to a “significant person”, who in Gogol’s story personifies all the soullessness and impersonality of the bureaucracy. Having encountered a wall of aggression and misunderstanding on the part of a “significant person,” the poor official cannot stand it and dies.
Gogol raises the problem of the extreme significance of the rank, which took place in the society of that time. The author shows that such attachment to rank is destructive for people with very different social status. The prestigious position of a “significant person” made him indifferent and cruel. And Bashmachkin’s junior rank led to the depersonalization of a person, his humiliation.
At the end of the story, it is no coincidence that Gogol introduces a fantastic ending, in which the ghost of an unfortunate official takes off the general’s greatcoat. This is some warning to important people that their inhumane actions may have consequences. The fantasy at the end of the work is explained by the fact that in the Russian reality of that time it is almost impossible to imagine a situation of retribution. Since the “little man” at that time had no rights, he could not demand attention and respect from society.
The entire progress of the task can be divided into several sub-items:
- It is necessary to recall the content of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol's story "The Overcoat".
- Try to understand what the author wants to convey to his reader.
- Go directly to the search for the main artistic idea of the story "The Overcoat".
So let's get started.
Let's remember the plot of the work
The main character is Bashmachkin Akaki Akakievich, an ordinary working man, of which there are a great many. He didn’t have much friends, nor a wife or children. He lived only for his work, and although the work was not solid, it consisted of simple rewriting of texts, for Akaki it was everything. Even at the end working day the main character took the papers home and continued to rewrite. For a very long time, Akaki collected money to purchase a new overcoat, with the thought that this purchase would change the attitude of those around him and his colleagues. And finally, having accumulated a large sum, the hero buys the desired item, but, unfortunately, his happiness did not last long. Returning home late at night, the hero was robbed. Along with the overcoat, the meaning of Akaky Akakievich’s life disappeared, because he could not earn another one. Returning home without his overcoat, the hero froze, which subsequently led to his death.
We display the topic
From the content it is clear that the work touches on the theme of a little man. A person on whom nothing depends. He is like a cog in a huge mechanism, without which the mechanism will not stop working. No one will even notice his disappearance. No one needs him or is interested in him, although he tries his best to attract attention to himself, all his efforts remain in vain.
The main artistic idea of the work
Gogol shows that only a person’s appearance is important for everyone. Personal qualities and the inner world is of no interest to anyone. The main thing is what kind of “overcoat” you have. For Nikolai Vasilyevich himself, your rank does not matter; he does not look at whether your overcoat is new or old. What matters to him is what lies inside, spiritual world hero. This is precisely the main thing artistic idea works.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, who left a mystical mark on Russian literature, for many writers of the 19th century century became the ancestor critical realism. It was no coincidence that catchphrase Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in an interview with a French journalist: “We all came out of Gogol’s overcoat.” The writer implied an attitude towards the “little man”, which manifested itself very clearly in the story. Later, this type of hero will become the main one in Russian literature.
“The Overcoat”, included in the cycle “ Petersburg stories", in the original editions was of a humorous nature, because it appeared thanks to an anecdote. Gogol, according to the memoirs of P. V. Annenkov, “listened to comments, descriptions, anecdotes... and, it happened, used them.”
One day he heard an office joke about a poor official: he was a passionate hunter and saved enough money to buy a good gun, saving on everything and working hard in his position. When he first went hunting for ducks on a boat, the gun got caught in dense thickets of reeds and sank. He could not find him and, returning home, fell ill with a fever. His comrades, having learned about this, bought him a new gun, which brought him back to life, but later he recalled this incident with a deathly pallor on his face. Everyone laughed at the joke, but Gogol went away deep in thought: it was that evening that the idea of a future story arose in his head.
Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin, the main character of the story “The Overcoat,” starting from birth, when his mother, rejecting all the names in the calendar as too exotic, gave him his father’s name, and at baptism he cried and made such a grimace, “as if I felt that there would be a titular adviser”, and all his life, humbly enduring the cold, despotic treatment of his superiors, the bullying of his colleagues and poverty, “knew how to be satisfied with his lot”. Any changes in his life order were no longer possible.
When suddenly fate gives you a chance to change your life - to sew a new overcoat. Thus, the central event of the story becomes the acquisition and loss of the overcoat. At first, a conversation with an angry tailor, who claims that it is impossible to repair an old overcoat, plunges Akaki Akakievich into complete confusion. To raise money for a new coat, Bashmachkin has to not drink tea in the evenings, not light candles, and walk almost on tiptoe in order to keep his feet on the ground. All these restrictions cause terrible inconvenience at first.
But as soon as the hero imagined a new overcoat, he became a different person. The changes are striking: Bashmachkin “became more lively, stronger in character, like a man who has set a goal for himself”. The author’s irony is understandable: the goal for which the official changed is too insignificant.
The appearance of the long-awaited overcoat - "the most solemn day" in the life of a hero. Bashmachkin is embarrassed by the universal attention of his colleagues, but still accepts the offer to celebrate the new thing. The usual way of life is disrupted, the hero’s behavior changes. It turns out that he is able to laugh cheerfully and not write any papers after dinner.
Since Bashmachkin has not left the house in the evenings for a long time, St. Petersburg seems beautiful to him. This city is fantastic just because it appeared “from the darkness of the forests, from the swamps of blat”, but it was Gogol who turned it into a phantasmagoric city - a place where something out of the ordinary is possible. The hero of "The Overcoat", lost in the night Petersburg, becomes a victim of robbery. A shock for him is the appeal to the police authorities, the attempts of his colleagues to organize a team-up, but the most serious test is the meeting with "significant person", after which Bashmachkin dies.
The author emphasizes how terrible and tragic the helplessness of the “little man” in St. Petersburg is. Retribution, enhanced by the intervention of evil spirits, becomes just as terrible. A ghost that appeared in a vacant lot after Bashmachkin’s death, reminiscent of a former titular councilor, tore down “all sorts of greatcoats from all over the place, without considering rank and title”. This continued until "significant person" did not end up in the ill-fated wasteland and was not grabbed by the dead man. That's when the ghost said: “...your overcoat is what I need! ... If you didn’t bother about mine, now give me yours!”
This incident changed the formerly important official: he became less arrogant. And the appearance of the dead official stopped: “Apparently, the general’s overcoat suited his shoulders.”. For Gogol, what becomes fantastic is not the appearance of a ghost, but the manifestation of conscience even in such a person as "significant person".
“The Overcoat” develops the theme of the “little man” outlined by Karamzin in “Poor Liza” and revealed by Pushkin in. But Gogol sees the cause of evil not in people, but in the structure of life, where not everyone has privileges.
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In the story “The Overcoat,” written by the outstanding Russian writer N.V. Gogol, talks about tragic fate petty official, Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin.
Akaki Akakievich is a quiet, shy, inconspicuous man who devotes himself entirely to his work, which consists of rewriting texts. He receives a very modest salary, which is very difficult to live on. Therefore, purchasing a new overcoat when the old one is completely worn out seems a completely impossible task to Akakiy Akakievich. However, there is nowhere to go (winters in St. Petersburg are too cold) - Akaki Akakievich accepts the challenge. Limiting himself in everything, including food, he collects the required amount of money and sews himself a new overcoat from a tailor he knows.
Of course, he is happy about the new overcoat, but he is not destined to be happy for long: Akakiy Akakievich’s colleagues are organizing a party on the occasion of his acquisition of a new overcoat, and just after this party, late at night, when Akakiy Akakievich, returning home, walks along the dark streets, he is attacked by robbers.
All. The overcoat is gone. Akaki Akakievich is trying, as far as he can, to take at least some steps to find the robbers and return his treasure, the acquisition of which in his mind has already become equal to the purpose and meaning of life. Only he can do a little. And so, following the recommendations of his colleagues, he turns to one significant person.
In an effort to emphasize that significant person- in fact, no significant person, but simply an empty place who thinks a lot about himself, Gogol does not give this hero any name, even one as absurd as that of Akaki Akakievich. The author limits himself to highlighting the expression significant person in the text italics and persistently refers to this person only in this way. The derogatory effect of this is further reinforced by the fact that the word face in Russian is a neuter noun, which means the hero, who is called significant person in every sense, it is automatically erased, completely depersonalized.
Naturally, significant person is not going to help the unfortunate Akaki Akakievich, but it behaves so rudely and unceremoniously that Akaki Akakievich’s nerves cannot stand it. Akaki Akakievich falls ill with a fever and dies. After some time, rumors begin to creep around St. Petersburg that the ghost of Akaki Akakievich takes off the greatcoats of passers-by at night. That's the plot.
Gogol describes in detail the appearance of Akaki Akakievich, gives his psychological portrait, and talks about how it happened that Akaki Akakievich was baptized under that name. Gogol also talks about how people loved to laugh at his hero, make fun of him, and even mock him in the service. But nevertheless, Gogol gives the key words, which, if the meaning of the entire work does not yet reveal itself, then at least already contains a hint of it, is given at the very beginning, even before he begins to introduce the reader to the main character. “In the department... But it’s better not to say in which department,” he begins, as if from afar. Departments, regiments, offices... - the common denominator for all this, according to Gogol, is one - these are the official classes. And the main character, Bashmachkin, is just an example of what a system does to people, in which everything is based on service, on belonging to classes, on ranks.
It should be noted that the problem of the inhumanity of the class system, the bureaucratic system, the problem of the little man, the problem extra person was raised by almost all advanced Russian writers throughout the 19th century.
In fact, there were and are many people like Akaki Akakievich (after all, “The Overcoat”, unfortunately, has not lost its relevance). Therefore, no one notices Akaki Akakievich’s absence from work after his death. One official dies - another immediately replaces him. It was as if there was an official, but the person had never existed. A person in a system is not a person, but a cog.
But significant persons, if you follow Gogol’s logic, much more, and against their background, any Akaki Akakievich may seem like a bright individual. After all, it is impossible not to become attached to Akaki Akakievich while reading the story, not to begin to empathize with him. What destroys, albeit insignificant, but harmless, and, in essence, evoking pity and sympathy, Akakiy Akakievich? It turns out that the system.
And perhaps the meaning of Gogol’s work lies in revealing the imperfections and injustice of the social system that disfigures the human psyche. Although, rather, its meaning is the opposite. Understanding the meaning depends more on the reader, but one thing is certain: Gogol clearly seeks to lead the reader to very sad thoughts. After all, after reading “The Overcoat,” it begins to seem that as long as most people like to please, curry favor and fawn over their superiors and humiliate their inferiors, there will be no other system.
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