Reading the poem by N.V. Gogol "Dead Souls", Russian is recognized national character our time. In his work, the writer explores the life of Russian landowners, officials, peasants, 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 found in our time? Pavel Ivanovich's parents are impoverished nobles.

The father taught his son to please teachers and bosses and save money. That's what a hero does. He pleases teachers, but only as long as he depends on them, and does this 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. Deception, bribery, meanness, self-interest, fraud at customs are inherent in Pavel Ivanovich. He is not interested in the moral aspect of such transactions. Also, the hero has such a trait as adapting to people and knowing how to interact with them in his favor. 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 such a person, for whom money has become an end and a means, a universal measure of all values, the personification of well-being, stability, reliability, security, a guarantor of public love and respect.

For Gogol's time, this type of people was completely new, which cannot be said about our time. Unfortunately, now more and more often there are people like Chichikov: unprincipled, not taking into account anything, overcoming both moral and physical barriers in pursuit of a penny. Some people are now capable of going to murder for money. The media keeps reporting countless hoaxes, scams, scams. Every day there are similar actions of people, in any transactions, or even, one might say, from scratch: scammers often call on mobile phones, even scammers come, introducing themselves as social workers or public utilities, using fake IDs. As soon as people do not contrive for the sake of money. And, unfortunately, there are more and more such “chichikovs” in our time, and most importantly, such behavior is now completely normal: someone stole something, somewhere he deceived, 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 in the first place now it is money, fame, because now everything can be bought, bribed, a person’s financial situation plays a big role. And such values ​​and qualities as love, compassion, sincerity, honesty fade into the background and modern life are, unfortunately, undervalued. Therefore, such a society can quickly degrade due to the decline in morality and the loss of higher moral values.

Updated: 2018-11-20

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"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”, which means that the reader is able to find answers on the pages of the poem.

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

In discussing this question, I would like to draw attention to modern people. With pain in the heart, but we must admit that it has become based on entrepreneurial relationships. Everyone needs something, everyone is looking for ways to get it. In our time, interpersonal relationships began to fade into the background, in their place came profit and stinginess. All this we can find in literary hero poem "Dead Souls". The author painted a portrait of a future person, then there were still few like Chichikov, they were just in their infancy. By our time, their number has begun to exceed half, and this really is a problem.

Gogol conceived his hero with the aim of growing in him a highly moral person. It is believed that the changes were to take place throughout all the volumes, and at the end Gogol was supposed to show a completely new hero. But since the continuation of the work was destroyed, we will never know if Chichikov could change.

Gogol did not make his hero only good or bad. He endowed him with such talents as perseverance, striving for a goal, resourcefulness (an idea with dead souls), the ability to find a way out of any existing problem. But to such good qualities he also adds vices to balance his personality. The vices include - stinginess, greed, lack of strong feelings for anyone. And in fact, for the entire period of the narrative of the poem, the author does not give us the exact question of whether Chichikov is ready to love for real.

As you know, he bought dead souls for the sake of a “business”, which was supposed to bring him big profits. He needed money more than ever, because he dreamed of marrying a stately and rich girl. Again, we see that in such a heart matter as love and marriage, he is looking for profit. He does not care who this girl will be, how she will behave. The last refusal hurt him very much, because he really liked that girl. But the small capital did not impress her parents, so he receives a nasty rejection.

Is this image relevant today? From all of the above, I conclude that it is in fact relevant. Gogol created the image of a man who will exist after several centuries. There are people who are just as ready to please their boss, as Chichikov did. We can't name it bad guys, after all, 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!

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"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”, which means that the reader is able to find answers on the pages of the poem.

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

Arguing over this issue, I want to draw attention to modern people. With pain in the heart, but we must admit that it has become based on entrepreneurial relationships. Everyone needs something, everyone is looking for ways to get it. In our time, interpersonal relationships began to fade into the background, in their place came profit and stinginess. We can find all this in the literary hero of the poem Dead Souls. The author painted a portrait of a future person, then there were still few like Chichikov, they were just in their infancy. By our time, their number has begun to exceed half, and this really is a problem.

Gogol conceived his hero with the aim of growing in him a highly moral person. It is believed that the changes were to take place throughout all the volumes, and at the end Gogol was supposed to show a completely new hero. But since the continuation of the work was destroyed, we will never know if Chichikov could change.

Gogol did not make his hero only good or bad. He endowed him with such talents as perseverance, striving for a goal, resourcefulness (an idea with dead souls), the ability to find a way out of any existing problem. But to such good qualities, he also adds vices to balance his personality. The vices include - stinginess, greed, lack of strong feelings for anyone. And in fact, for the entire period of the narrative of the poem, the author does not give us the exact question of whether Chichikov is ready to love for real.

As you know, he bought dead souls for the sake of a “business”, which was supposed to bring him big profits. He needed money more than ever, because he dreamed of marrying a stately and rich girl. Again, we see that in such a heart matter as love and marriage, he is looking for profit. He does not care who this girl will be, how she will behave. The last refusal hurt him very much, because he really liked that girl. But the small capital did not impress her parents, so he receives a nasty rejection.

Is this image relevant today? From all of the above, I conclude that it is in fact relevant. Gogol created the image of a man who will exist after several centuries. There are people who are just as ready to please their boss, as Chichikov did. We cannot call him negative heroes, 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!

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Our time is simply overflowing with the Chichikovs." "Chichikov personifies modern businessmen, entrepreneurs who, taking advantage of the disorder in the country, the lack of the slightest control, are trying to benefit from everything that comes their way." "And now the time is convenient, recently there was an epidemic , the people died out, thank God, a lot ... the estates are abandoned, they are managed haphazardly, taxes are paid 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: the collapse in the state, political and economic disorder, poverty and poverty of the main layers 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 profit at the expense of other people, thereby finishing off the state. "And therefore, our time is" the time of the rise of the Chichikovs. 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, the bosses. "They remember all the same words of Father Chichikov:" And most of all, please the teachers and bosses. You will all go into action and get ahead of everyone." One of the main motives that sounds in many works of ninth-graders - 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 Russian market, which is not yet strong, who 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 hardships of our time: countless deceptions, scams, frauds and knavery." "Chichikov could pull off such a scam today that his machinations with dead souls would seem like child's play." Furthermore. According to 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 mistrusted by many, but now he would be respected and appreciated." "He lives for money, in order to experience all the joys of life."

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Our time is simply overflowing with the Chichikovs." "Chichikov personifies modern businessmen, entrepreneurs who, taking advantage of the disorder in the country, the lack of the slightest control, are trying to benefit from everything that comes their way." "And now the time is convenient, recently there was an epidemic , the people died out, thank God, a lot ... estates are abandoned, they are managed at random, 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 layers 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 profit at the expense of other people, thereby finishing off the state. "And therefore, our time is" the time of the rise of the Chichikovs. 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, the bosses. "They remember all the same words of Father Chichikov:" And most of all, please the teachers and bosses. You will all go into action and get ahead of everyone." One of the main motives that sounds in many works of ninth-graders - 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 Russian market, which is not yet strong, who 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 hardships of our time: countless deceptions, scams, frauds and knavery." "Chichikov could pull off such a scam today that his machinations with dead souls would seem like child's play." Furthermore. According to 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 mistrusted by many, but now he would be respected and appreciated." "He lives for money, in order to experience all the joys of life."