Reading the poem by N.V. Gogol's "Dead Souls", recognizable as Russian national character our time. In his work, the writer explores the life of Russian landowners, officials, peasants, and the state of people's souls. One of the brightest negative images in the poem is the image of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov.

What kind of person is this Chichikov? And why is his image so familiar and common in our time? Pavel Ivanovich's parents are impoverished nobles.

The father taught his son to please teachers and bosses and save money. This is what the hero does. He pleases teachers, but only as long as he depends on them, and does it for selfish purposes. He also tries to save money, even if people need some kind of help, Chichikov will not spend a large amount on them. Only all these features obscure the most important moral principles for the hero. Pavel Ivanovich is characterized by deception, bribery, meanness, self-interest, and fraud at customs. He is not interested in the moral aspect of such transactions. The hero also has the trait of adapting to people and knowing how to interact with them to his advantage. In the poem Chichikov is called interesting person, everyone is happy with them. But no one is able to look deeper into the soul of a person for whom money has become a goal and a means, a universal measure of all values, the personification of well-being, stability, reliability, security, a guarantor of social love and respect.

For Gogol’s time, this type of people was completely new, which cannot be said about our time. Unfortunately, people like Chichikov are now becoming more and more common: unprincipled, not taking anything into account, overcoming both moral and physical barriers in the pursuit of a penny. Some people nowadays are capable of killing for money. The media never ceases to report on countless deceptions, scams, and scams. Every day there are similar actions of people, during any transactions or even, one might say, out of nowhere: scammers often call on mobile phones, even scammers come, posing as social service workers or utility workers, using fake IDs. As soon as people don't make tricks for money. And, unfortunately, such “chichikovs” are becoming more and more common these days, and the main thing is that such behavior is now completely normal: he stole somewhere, cheated somewhere, and so on.

Unfortunately, in our time such a figure as Chichikov is ordinary and familiar. And many moral values ​​are being lost, for people the first place now is money, fame, because now everything can be bought, given a bribe, a person’s financial situation plays a big role. And such values ​​and qualities as love, compassion, sincerity, honesty fade into the background and into modern life, unfortunately, are little appreciated. Therefore, such a society can quickly degrade due to a decline in morality and the loss of the highest moral values.

Updated: 2018-11-20

Attention!
If you notice an error or typo, highlight the text and click Ctrl+Enter.
By doing so, you will provide invaluable benefit to the project and other readers.

Thank you for your attention.

“Dead Souls” is the main book of N.V. Gogol. Unfortunately, he did not present us with a continuation of this masterpiece. But as he said: “poetry is a pure confession of the soul,” from which it follows that the reader is able to find answers on the pages of the poem.

The work raises many problems, each of them resonates with the main character. Who is the mysterious Chichikov, who burst into the lives of Russian landowners? The author is undoubtedly imbued with love for his hero. From childhood, he notices in him a great intelligence from the practical side. From early youth, the guy was involved in “business”, never sat idle, and tried to build his fortune. But every time I get to highest point his dreams he fell with a roar to the bottom. Is Chichikov's image relevant today? How many people in our modern society are the prototype of the soul of the main character?

In discussing this issue, I would like to draw your attention to modern people. With pain in our hearts, we must admit that it has become built on entrepreneurial relationships. Everyone needs something, everyone is looking for ways to get it. In our time, interpersonal relationships have begun to fade into the background; profit and stinginess have taken their place. We can find all this in literary hero poem "Dead Souls". The author painted a portrait of a future man; at that time there were still few people like Chichikov, they were just emerging. By now, their number has begun to exceed half, and this really is a problem.

Gogol conceived his hero with the goal of raising him to be a highly moral person. It is believed that changes should have taken place throughout all the volumes, and at the end Gogol should have shown a completely new hero. But since the continuation of the work was destroyed, we will never know whether Chichikov was able to change.

Gogol did not make his hero only good or bad. He endowed him with such talents as perseverance, pursuit of goals, resourcefulness (the idea of ​​dead souls), and the ability to find a way out of any existing problem. But to such good qualities he also adds vices to balance out his personality. Vices include stinginess, thirst for profit, lack of strong feelings for anyone. And in fact, throughout the entire period of the poem’s narrative, the author does not give us an exact question about whether Chichikov is ready to truly love.

As you know, he bought dead souls for the sake of a “business” that was supposed to bring him great profit. He needed money more than ever, because he dreamed of marrying a stately and rich girl. Again, we see that in such a heartfelt matter as love and wedding, he is looking for profit. It doesn’t matter to him who this girl will be, how she will behave. The last refusal hurt him very much, because he really liked that girl. But her parents are not impressed by the small capital, so he receives an unpleasant refusal.

Is this image relevant today? From all of the above, I come to the conclusion that it is actually relevant. Gogol created an image of a person who would exist several centuries later. There are people who are just as ready to please their boss as Chichikov did. WE can't name it negative heroes, because for Gogol positive traits that his hero possessed seemed to him a window into the future. More to the point, this image has become a more frequent and powerful phenomenon in our society. This is not the norm, and what is relevant is not always correct, it is worth remembering!

Left a reply Guru

“Dead Souls” is the main book of N.V. Gogol. Unfortunately, he did not present us with a continuation of this masterpiece. But as he said: “poetry is a pure confession of the soul,” from which it follows that the reader is able to find answers on the pages of the poem.

The work raises many problems, each of them resonates with the main character. Who is the mysterious Chichikov, who burst into the lives of Russian landowners? The author is undoubtedly imbued with love for his hero. From childhood, he notices in him a great intelligence from the practical side. From early youth, the guy was involved in “business”, never sat idle, and tried to build his fortune. But every time he reached the highest point of his dreams, he fell to the bottom with a roar. Is Chichikov's image relevant today? How many people in our modern society are the prototype of the soul of the main character?

In discussing this issue, I want to draw attention to modern people. With pain in our hearts, we must admit that it has become built on entrepreneurial relationships. Everyone needs something, everyone is looking for ways to get it. In our time, interpersonal relationships have begun to fade into the background; profit and stinginess have taken their place. We can find all this in the literary hero of the poem “Dead Souls”. The author painted a portrait of a future man; at that time there were still few people like Chichikov, they were just emerging. By now, their number has begun to exceed half, and this really is a problem.

Gogol conceived his hero with the goal of raising him to be a highly moral person. It is believed that changes should have taken place throughout all the volumes, and at the end Gogol should have shown a completely new hero. But since the continuation of the work was destroyed, we will never know whether Chichikov was able to change.

Gogol did not make his hero only good or bad. He endowed him with such talents as perseverance, pursuit of goals, resourcefulness (the idea of ​​dead souls), and the ability to find a way out of any existing problem. But to such good qualities he also adds vices in order to balance his personality. Vices include stinginess, thirst for profit, lack of strong feelings for anyone. And in fact, throughout the entire period of the poem’s narrative, the author does not give us an exact question about whether Chichikov is ready to truly love.

As you know, he bought dead souls for the sake of a “business” that was supposed to bring him great profit. He needed money more than ever, because he dreamed of marrying a stately and rich girl. Again, we see that in such a heartfelt matter as love and wedding, he is looking for profit. It doesn’t matter to him who this girl will be, how she will behave. The last refusal hurt him very much, because he really liked that girl. But her parents are not impressed by the small capital, so he receives an unpleasant refusal.

Is this image relevant today? From all of the above, I come to the conclusion that it is actually relevant. Gogol created an image of a person who would exist several centuries later. There are people who are just as ready to please their boss as Chichikov did. WE cannot call him a negative hero, because for Gogol the positive qualities that his hero possessed seemed to him a window into the future. More to the point, this image has become a more frequent and powerful phenomenon in our society. This is not the norm, and what is relevant is not always correct, it is worth remembering!

Left a reply Guest

Our time is simply full of Chichikovs." "Chichikov personifies modern businessmen, entrepreneurs who, taking advantage of the disorder in the country, the lack of the slightest control, are trying to take advantage of everything that comes their way." "And now the time is convenient, there was an epidemic recently , the people died out, thank God, quite a lot... estates are abandoned, managed haphazardly, taxes are paid more and more difficult every year." Referring to this place " Dead souls", several ninth-graders wrote that today is the most convenient, favorable time for the current Chichikovs. “Our time is very similar to the time of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol: collapse in the state, political and economic disorder, poverty and misery of the main strata of the state.” “Now in our The situation in the country is no better than in the time of Chichikov. Taking advantage of the plight of the country, the Chichikovs make money at the expense of other people, thereby finishing off the state." And therefore our time is “the time of the rise of the Chichikovs.” “In our troubled times, people like Chichikovs should prosper, they do not waste time profiting on other people." Moreover, "now, when abilities and education are little valued, money does a lot." That is why "it is in our time that such people are valued. They know how to please and, most importantly, their bosses." "They remember all the same words of Father Chichikov: “And most of all, please teachers and bosses. If you please your boss, then, even though you will not succeed in science, and God did not give you talent, You’ll put everything into action and get ahead of everyone.” One of the main motifs that sounds in many works of ninth-graders is that Chichikov reflects and expresses not only Gogol’s time, but also our time. “If you mentally put Chichikov in the current conditions, then he will not stand out among the same owners and businessmen who flood the fragile Russian market, make a profit through resale and are not a productive force.” “Reading and reflecting on the character and behavior of Chichikov, I clearly see the misfortunes of our time: countless deceptions, scams, frauds and tricks.” “Chichikov today could pull off such a scam that his machinations with dead souls would seem like baby talk.” Moreover. According to the thoughts of many tenth graders, if Chichikov in Gogol’s time was a new, unusual phenomenon, then today he is an ordinary and familiar figure. "I think that Chichikov is, to some extent, a hero of our time." “He was disgusted and distrusted by many at the time, but now he would be respected and appreciated.” "He lives for money, in order to experience all the joys of life."

Left a reply Guest

Our time is simply full of Chichikovs." "Chichikov personifies modern businessmen, entrepreneurs who, taking advantage of the disorder in the country, the lack of the slightest control, are trying to take advantage of everything that comes their way." "And now the time is convenient, there was an epidemic recently , the people died out, thank God, quite a lot... estates are abandoned, managed haphazardly, taxes are more difficult to pay every year." Referring to this passage in Dead Souls, several ninth-graders wrote that today is the most convenient, favorable time for the current Chichikovs. "Our time is very similar to the time of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol : collapse in the state, political and economic disorder, poverty and misery of the main strata of the state." "Now in our country the situation is no better than in the time of Chichikov. Taking advantage of the plight of the country, the Chichikovs make money at the expense of other people, thereby finishing off the state." And therefore our time is “the time of the rise of the Chichikovs.” “In our troubled times, people like Chichikovs should prosper, they do not waste time profiting on other people." Moreover, "now, when abilities and education are little valued, money does a lot." That is why "it is in our time that such people are valued. They know how to please and, most importantly, their bosses." "They remember all the same words of Father Chichikov: “And most of all, please teachers and bosses. If you please your boss, then, even though you will not succeed in science, and God did not give you talent, You’ll put everything into action and get ahead of everyone.” One of the main motifs that sounds in many works of ninth-graders is that Chichikov reflects and expresses not only Gogol’s time, but also our time. “If you mentally put Chichikov in the current conditions, then he will not stand out among the same owners and businessmen who flood the fragile Russian market, make a profit through resale and are not a productive force.” “Reading and reflecting on the character and behavior of Chichikov, I clearly see the misfortunes of our time: countless deceptions, scams, frauds and tricks.” “Chichikov today could pull off such a scam that his machinations with dead souls would seem like baby talk.” Moreover. According to the thoughts of many tenth graders, if Chichikov in Gogol’s time was a new, unusual phenomenon, then today he is an ordinary and familiar figure. "I think that Chichikov is, to some extent, a hero of our time." “At the time he was disgusted and distrusted by many, but now he would be respected and appreciated.” "He lives for money, in order to experience all the joys of life."