Korobochka Nastasya Petrovna - widow-landowner, college secretary; second (after Manilov and before Nozdrev) “saleswoman” dead souls. Chichikov gets to her (chapter 3) by accident: the drunken coachman Selifan misses many turns on the way back from Manilov. The “darkness” of the night, the thunderous atmosphere that accompanied the arrival to Nastasya Petrovna, the frighteningly snake-like hiss of the wall clock, K.’s constant memories of her deceased husband, Chichikov’s confession (the very next morning) that the day before yesterday she had been dreaming about the “cursed” devil all night - all this makes the reader wary. But Chichikov’s morning meeting with K. completely deceives the reader’s expectations, separates her image from the fairy-tale-fantastic background, and completely dissolves her in everyday life. The main thing works to “inhabit” the image positive quality K., which became her negative and all-consuming passion: commercial efficiency. For her, every person is, first and foremost, a potential buyer.
Small house and large yard K., symbolically reflecting her inner world, - neat, strong; roofs are new; the gates were not askew anywhere; feather bed - up to the ceiling; there are flies everywhere, which in Gogol always accompany the frozen, stopped, internally dead modern world. The extreme lag, the slowing down of time in the space of K. is indicated by both the snake-like hissing clock and the portraits on the walls “in striped wallpaper”: Kutuzov and an old man with red cuffs, which were worn under Emperor Pavel Petrovich. Only in the 2nd volume will the era of the generals of 1812 come to life - General Betrishchev seems to have stepped out of one of the portraits hanging on the walls of many of the characters in the 1st volume. But so far the “general’s portraits”, clearly left over from K.’s late husband, indicate only that the story ended for her in 1812 (Meanwhile, the action of the poem is dated to the time between the seventh and eighth “revisions”, i.e. censuses , in 1815 and 1835 - and can easily be localized between 1820, the beginning of the Greek uprising, and 1823, the death of Napoleon.)
However, the “freezing” of time in K.’s world is still better than the complete timelessness of Manilov’s world; At least she has a past; some, albeit funny, allusion to the biography (there was a husband who could not sleep without scratching his heels). K. has character; slightly embarrassed by Chichikov’s proposal to sell the dead (“Do you really want to dig them out of the ground?”), he immediately begins to bargain (“After all, I’ve never sold the dead before”) and does not stop until Chichikov, in anger, promises her the devil , and then promises to buy not only the dead, but also other “products” under government contracts. K. - again, unlike Manilov - remembers his dead peasants by heart. K. is stupid: in the end she will come to the city to make inquiries about how much dead souls are going now, and thereby completely ruin Chichikov’s reputation, which was already shaken. However, even this dullness, in its definiteness, is better than Manilov’s emptiness - neither smart nor stupid, neither good nor evil.
Nevertheless, the very location of the village of K. (away from the main road, on a side branch of life) indicates its “hopelessness”, “futility” of any hopes for its possible correction and revival. In this she is similar to Manilov - and occupies one of the lowest places in the “hierarchy” of the heroes of the poem.
We meet Korobochka in the 3rd chapter of Gogol’s novel-poem “ Dead Souls" She is the second person Chichikov pays a visit to. In fact, Chichikov stopped by her estate by accident - the coachman got drunk, “played around,” as the author himself characterizes this event, and lost his way. Therefore, instead of Sobakevich main character meets the landowner Korobochka.
Let's look at the image of the Box in detail
She is a woman of respectable years, a widow, and a former “college secretary.” She lives alone on her estate and is completely absorbed in running the household. Most likely, she does not have her own children, since Gogol, in his description of the character, mentions that all her “trash” accumulated during her life will go to some great-niece.
It looks old-fashioned and a little ridiculous, “wearing a cap,” “flannel,” “something tied around the neck.”
Korobochka, unlike Manilov, successfully runs the farm herself. Through the eyes of Chichikov we see that the houses in her village are strong, the serf men are “hefty” (strong), there are many guard dogs, which indicates that this is a “decent village”. The yard is full of poultry, and behind the fence there are vegetable gardens - cabbage, beets, onions, potatoes. There are also fruit trees, carefully covered with nets from voracious magpies and sparrows. Stuffed animals were also installed for the same purpose. Gogol ironically notes that one of the stuffed animals was wearing the cap of the owner herself.
The peasants' houses were maintained and updated - Chichikov saw new planks on the roofs, gates stood straight everywhere, and there were carts in some courtyards. That is, the owner's care is visible everywhere. In total, Korobochka has 80 serfs, 18 died, which the owner greatly laments - they were good workers.
Korobochka does not allow the serfs to be lazy - Chichikov’s feather bed was expertly fluffed, in the morning, when he returns to the living room where he spent the night, everything is already tidied up; the table is full of baked goods.
The fact that the landowner has order all around and everything is under her personal control, we see from the dialogue about the purchase of dead souls - she remembers all the dead peasants by name and surname, she doesn’t even keep any records.
Despite the fact that Korobochka loves to complain about how bad things are, her estate also had surpluses that were sold to merchants and resellers. From the dialogue with Chichikov, we learn that the landowner sells honey, hemp, feathers, meat, flour, cereals, and lard. She knows how to bargain, sells a pound of honey at a very high price, as much as 12 rubles, which Chichikov is very surprised by.
Nastasya Petrovna is thrifty and even a little stingy. Despite the fact that things are going well at the estate, the furnishings in the house are very modest, the wallpaper is old, the clock is creaky. Despite polite treatment and hospitality, Korobochka did not offer the guest dinner, citing late time. And in the morning he offers Chichikov only tea, albeit with fruit infusion. Only after feeling the benefit - when Chichikov promised to buy “household products” from her - Korobochka decided to appease him and ordered him to bake a pie and pancakes. She also set the table with various pastries.
Gogol writes that her “dress will not burn and will not fray on its own.” Complaining about poverty and crop failures, she nevertheless puts money into “motley bags”, which she stuffs into dresser drawers. All coins are carefully sorted - “rules, fifty rubles, devils” are laid out separately in bags. The old landowner tries to find benefit in everything - noticing Chichikov’s stamped paper, she asks him to “give him a piece of paper.”
The box is pious and superstitious. During a thunderstorm, he puts a candle in front of the icon and prays; gets scared when Chichikov mentions the devil in conversation.
She is not very smart and a little suspicious, she is very afraid of making a mistake and selling herself short. She doubts the deal with Chichikov and does not want to sell him dead souls, even though she has to pay for them as if they were alive. He naively thinks that other merchants can come and offer a better price. This deal completely exhausted Chichikov, and during the negotiations he calls Korobochka mentally and out loud “strong-headed”, “club-headed”, “mongrel in the manger” and “damned old woman”.
The image of Korobochka is interesting because it is a fairly common type in Russia during the time of Gogol. Its main features - stubbornness, stupidity and narrow-mindedness, were also inherent in real individuals - some officials and civil servants. The author writes about such people that you seem to see a respectable and statesmanlike person, but in reality it turns out to be a “perfect Korobochka.” Arguments and reasons bounce off them like a rubber ball.
The description of the landowner ends with a reflection on the topic: is it possible to believe that Korobochka stands at the very bottom of the “ladder of human improvement”? Gogol compares her to an aristocratic sister living in a rich and elegant house, who reads books, attends social events, and her thoughts are occupied by “fashionable Catholicism” and political upheavals in France, and not by economic affairs. The author does not give a specific answer to this question; the reader must answer it himself.
Let us summarize the main characteristics of the image of the Box
Economic
Has business acumen
Practical
Lean
Petty
Hypocritical
Suspicious
Limited
Only cares about his own benefit
Obsessed with hoarding
Religious, but without real spirituality
Superstitious
The symbolism of the landowner's surname
Symbolism is an important artistic tool in the hands of a writer. In Gogol's poem "Dead Souls" all the names of the landowners are symbolic. Our heroine is no exception. Korobochka is a diminutive derivative of the word “box”, that is, an inanimate object. Likewise, in the image of Korobochka there are few living features; she is turned to the past, there is no real life, development – personal, spiritual. A real "dead soul".
People store various things in a box - so Korobochka is absorbed in hoarding solely for the sake of money itself, she does not have any global goal what this money can be spent on. She just puts them in bags.
Well, the walls of the box are solid, just like Korobochka’s mind. She is stupid and limited.
As for the diminutive suffix, the author may have wanted to show the character’s harmlessness and some comedy.
Introduction
§1. The principle of constructing images of landowners in the poem
§2. Image of the Box
§3. Artistic detail as a means
character characteristics
§4. Korobochka and Chichikov.
Conclusion
List of used literature
Introduction
The poem “Dead Souls” was created by N.V. Gogol for about 17 years. Its plot was suggested by A.S. Pushkin. Gogol began working on the poem in the fall of 1835, and on May 21, 1842, “Dead Souls” appeared in print. The publication of Gogol's poem caused fierce controversy: some admired it, others saw in it slander against modern Russia and “a special world of scoundrels.” Gogol worked on the continuation of the poem until the end of his life, writing the second volume (which was later burned) and planning to create a third volume.
According to the writer’s plan, the poem should have depicted not only contemporary Russia with all its problems and shortcomings (serfdom, bureaucratic system, loss of spirituality, illusory nature, etc.), but also the basis on which the country could be reborn in a new social -economic situation. The poem “Dead Souls” was supposed to be an artistic search for a “living soul” - the type of person who could become the owner new Russia.
Gogol based the composition of the poem on the architectonics “ Divine Comedy» Dante – the hero’s journeys, accompanied by a guide (the poet Virgil), first through the circles of hell, then, through purgatory, through the spheres of heaven. On this journey lyrical hero poems I met the souls of people burdened with sins (in the circles of hell) and marked by grace (in heaven). Dante's poem was a gallery of types of people embodied in artistic images famous characters mythology and history. Gogol also wanted to create a large-scale work that would reflect not only the present of Russia, but also its future. “...How huge, original story... All of Rus' will appear in it!..” - wrote Gogol to Zhukovsky. But for the writer it was important to depict not the external side of Russian life, but its “soul” - the internal state of human spirituality. Following Dante, he created a gallery of types of people from different segments of the population and classes (landowners, officials, peasants, metropolitan society), in which psychological, class, and spiritual traits were reflected in a generalized form. Each of the characters in the poem is both typical and clearly individualized - with its own characteristics of behavior and speech, attitude to the world and moral values. Gogol's skill was manifested in the fact that his poem “Dead Souls” is not just a gallery of types of people, it is a collection of “souls”, among which the author is looking for a living one, capable of further development.
Gogol was going to write a work consisting of three volumes (in accordance with the architectonics of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”): “hell” of Russia, “purgatory” and “paradise” (future). When the first volume was published, the controversy that flared up around the work, especially negative assessments, shocked the writer, he went abroad and began work on the second volume. But the work was very difficult: Gogol’s views on life, art, and religion changed; he experienced a spiritual crisis; friendly ties with Belinsky were severed, who harshly criticized the writer’s ideological position expressed in “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends.” The second volume, practically written, was burned in a moment of mental crisis, then restored, and nine days before his death, the writer again set fire to the white manuscript of the poem. The third volume remained only in the form of an idea.
For Gogol - a deeply religious man and an original writer - the most important thing was the spirituality of man, his moral basis, and not just the external social circumstances in which contemporary Russia was located. He perceived both Rus' and its fate like a son, deeply experiencing everything that he observed in reality. Russia's exit from spiritual crisis Gogol saw not in economic and social transformations, but in the revival of morality, the cultivation true values, including Christian ones, in the souls of people. Therefore, the assessment that the work received in democratically minded criticism and which for a long time determined the perception of the first volume of the novel - a critical image of Russian reality, the “hell” of feudal Russia - does not exhaust the concept, plot, or poetics of the poem. Thus, the problem of the philosophical and spiritual content of the work and the definition of the main philosophical conflict in the images of “Dead Souls” arises.
The purpose of our work is to analyze one of the images of the poem from the point of view of the main philosophical conflict of the poem - the landowner Korobochka.
The main research method is literary analysis episode of Chichikov's meeting with Korobochka. and analysis and interpretation of artistic details.
§1. The principle of constructing images of landowners in the poem
Home philosophical problem The poem “Dead Souls” is the problem of life and death in the human soul. This is indicated by the name itself - “dead souls”, which reflects not only the meaning of Chichikov’s adventure - the purchase of “dead”, i.e. peasants existing only on paper, in revision tales, but also, in a broader, generalized sense, the degree of deadness of the soul of each of the characters in the poem. The main conflict - life and death - is localized in the area of the internal, spiritual plane. And then the composition of the first volume of the poem is divided into three parts, which form a ring composition: Chichikov’s arrival in the district town and communication with officials - a journey from landowner to landowner “according to his own need” - return to the city, scandal and departure from the city. Thus, central motive The motif of travel that organizes the entire work. wanderings. Wandering as plot basis The work is typical for Russian literature and reflects the idea of searching for high meaning and truth, continuing the tradition of the “walkings” of Old Russian literature.
Chichikov travels through the Russian outback, county towns and estates in search of “dead” souls, and the author accompanying the hero - in search of a “living” soul. Therefore, the gallery of landowners appearing before the reader in the first volume is a natural sequence human types, among whom the author is looking for someone who is capable of becoming the real master of the new Russia and reviving it economically, without destroying morality and spirituality. The sequence in which the landowners appear before us is built on two foundations: on the one hand, the degree of deadness of the soul (in other words, is the human soul alive) and sinfulness (let’s not forget about the “circles of hell”, where souls are arranged according to the severity of their sins) ; on the other hand, the opportunity to be reborn, to gain vitality, which Gogol understands as spirituality.
In the sequence of images of landowners, these two lines combine and create a double structure: each subsequent character is in a lower “circle”, the degree of his sin is heavier, death in his soul increasingly replaces life, and at the same time, each subsequent character is closer to rebirth, because According to Christian philosophy, the lower a person has fallen, the heavier his sin, the greater his suffering, the closer he is to salvation. The correctness of this interpretation is confirmed by the fact that, firstly, each subsequent landowner has more and more detailed history previous life (and if a person has a past, then a future is possible), secondly, in excerpts from the burned second volume and sketches for the third, it is known that Gogol was preparing a revival for two characters - the scoundrel Chichikov and the “hole in humanity” Plyushkin, those. to those who are in the first volume at the very bottom of spiritual “hell”.
Therefore, we will consider the image of the landowner Korobochka from several positions:
How do life and death compare in the character’s soul?
What is Korobochka’s “sin”, and why is she between Manilov and Nozdryov?
How close is she to revival?
§2. Image of the Box
Nastasya Petrovna Korobochka is a landowner, the widow of a college secretary, a very thrifty and thrifty elderly woman. Her village is small, but everything in it is in good order, the farm is flourishing and, apparently, brings in a good income. Korobochka compares favorably with Manilov: she knows all her peasants (“... she didn’t keep any notes or lists, but knew almost everyone by heart”), speaks of them as good workers (“all glorious people, all workers"), she herself is engaged in housekeeping - “she fixed her eyes on the housekeeper,” “little by little, everyone moved into economic life.” Judging by the fact that, when asking Chichikov who he is, she lists those people with whom she constantly communicates: the assessor, merchants, the archpriest, her social circle is small and is connected mainly with economic affairs - trade and the payment of state taxes.
Apparently, she rarely goes to the city and does not communicate with her neighbors, because when asked about Manilov, he replies that there is no such landowner and names ancient noble families, which are more appropriate in the classic comedy of the 18th century - Bobrov, Kanapatiev, Pleshakov, Kharpakin. In the same row is the surname Svinin, which draws a direct parallel with Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor” (Mitrofanushka’s mother and uncle are Svinin).
Korobochka’s behavior, her address to the guest “father”, the desire to serve (Chichikov called himself a nobleman), treat him, and arrange for an overnight stay as best as possible - all these are characteristic features of the images of provincial landowners in the works of the 18th century. Mrs. Prostakova behaves the same way when she finds out that Starodum is a nobleman and has been accepted at court.
Korobochka, it would seem, is devout; in her speeches there are constantly sayings and expressions characteristic of a believer: “With us cross power!”, “apparently, God sent him as punishment,” but there is no special faith in her. When Chichikov persuades her to sell dead peasants promising benefits, she agrees and begins to “calculate” the benefits. Korobochka's confidant is the son of the archpriest, who serves in the city.
An elderly landowner living in the vicinity of the city of N is a colorful and recognizable character. Life goals widow who manages her own estate - to get as much as possible in every possible way more money. Therefore, the old woman sells dead souls without hesitation. The only thing the lady cares about is whether she has sold too cheap.
History of creation
The landowner Korobochka first appears in the work “Dead Souls” in the third chapter. The old woman does not occupy a central place in the work, but the author invested in the resulting image a large number of contempt.
However, when negative attitude to the character, Gogol recognized the landowner’s everyday talents:
“The collegiate registrar Korobochka, who had not read any books except the Book of Hours, and even then only half-heartedly, having not learned any fine arts, except perhaps fortune-telling on cards, nevertheless knew how to fill chests and boxes with rubles.”
The late analysis of “Dead Souls,” where Nastasya Korobochka appears in all her splendor, prompted writers to build various theories. For example, he claims that Gogol’s work correlates with the work of “Odyssey”.
In this version, the old landowner is an analogue ancient Greek character Circe. The Greek woman poisoned her husband and established strict order in her own possessions. The same behavior is characteristic of Nastasya Korobochka, who, for all her outward stupidity, is shown to be a truly skillful housewife. However, no evidence similar to Bykov’s conclusions was found.
First published in 1842, the work still remains relevant. Based on the novel-poem, films are regularly made, plays are staged and operas are created.
"Dead Souls"
Nastasya Petrovna Korobochka is a landowner who leads a relatively secluded lifestyle. The biography of the elderly lady is not filled with bright events. Nastasya Petrovna married a college secretary early and after for long years widowed from a stable marriage. The woman runs a household located between the estates and.
In Gogol’s work, Nastasya Petrovna appears at the moment when Chichikov, the main character of the novel, loses his way and is forced to look for a place to stay for the night. Active Nastasya Petrovna, despite stable income, concerned about her own financial condition, so she tries to sell a variety of products to guests.
A woman’s internal state is reflected in her appearance. The fussy landowner does not pay attention or time to her wardrobe. At the first meeting with Chichikov, the heroine does not strive to produce good impression. Doesn’t waste time on clothes Box and after:
“She was dressed better than yesterday - in a dark dress and no longer in a sleeping cap, but there was still something tied around her neck.”
Nastasya Petrovna’s main activity is her own farm. Despite constant complaints, the landowner skillfully leads the peasants. The woman grows a variety of vegetables and fruits, and the yard is full of poultry. The life of the Korobochka peasants is subject to a strict routine. People either work in the fields or sell goods they produce with their own hands to neighboring estates: honey, flour, meat, feathers.
A caring housewife takes care of the smallest details. Scarecrows are installed in the landowner's fields to scare away crows, and spare carts are hidden in the barns so that the harvest does not stop even in an emergency.
Korobochka's house, like the household, is kept in strict order. The small estate is guarded by a pack of dogs; every breakdown is immediately corrected. However, the petty Korobochka watches over both her own estate and the village. Unlike her neighbors, the landowner takes care of the peasants' huts.
With such a correct and thoughtful approach to housekeeping, Nastasya Petrovna is no different mental abilities. The elderly woman is petty, selfish and fixated on thoughts of constant deception on the part of her acquaintances and strangers. Such character traits complicate communication with the landowner:
“... one of those mothers, small landowners who cry about crop failures, losses and keep their heads somewhat to one side, and meanwhile, little by little, they collect money in colorful bags placed in dresser drawers...”
A woman’s favorite pastime, in addition to calculating her own fortune, is fortune telling with cards. At the same time, Korobochka believes in God and claims that because of the cards she met the devil.
After the first communication with Chichikov, the old woman worries about whether she has gone too cheap with the sale of dead souls. Such a thought does not leave the landowner, and she, abandoning her own affairs, goes to the city to find out how much the goods actually cost.
The old woman's questions lead to the spread of rumors, which acquire new incredible details and bring the situation to the point of absurdity.
Film adaptations
In 1960, it was transferred to film theatrical production"Dead Souls" 1932. The film was directed by Leonid Trauberg. The artists of the Moscow Art Theater embodied Gogol's idea academic theater them. . The role of Korobochka went to the actress.
8 years later, in 1968, to classic plot directed by Alexander Belinsky. The film adaptation was broadcast as part of the “Theater on Screen” project. The role of the colorful Box was played by actress Klavdiya Fadeeva.
In 1984, the series “Dead Souls” was released, based on the first volume of Gogol’s work of the same name. The plot of the film is as close as possible to the original source. The role of the landowner was played by an actress.
In 2005, the premiere of “The Case of Dead Souls” took place on the NTV channel. The series touches on the work of the same name by Gogol, and several other works by the author. Critics did not appreciate the director's work and spoke negatively. The actress got the role of Korobochka.
- The surname of the heroine in Gogol's work includes hidden meaning. Researchers of the writer’s work argue that the character became a kind of trap (or a box from which one cannot escape) for Chichikov.
Illustration for Gogol's book "Dead Souls" - The main character bought 18 souls from the landowner for 15 rubles.
- Unlike the other characters, the elderly landowner remembers the names of the dead peasants by heart.
- Gogol depicted the lack of development of the heroine with the help of flies. Despite the cleanliness of the house, insects constantly fly around the characters, representing stagnation and lack of development.
- Perhaps Korobochka suffers from a serious psychological illness. Nothing goes missing in the landowner's household, not even hissing clocks and ancient unknown portraits. Psychologists call this phenomenon pathological hoarding.
Quotes
“My widow's business is so inexperienced! It’s better if I wait a little while, maybe merchants will come, and I’ll take stock of the prices.”
“By God, the product is so strange, completely unprecedented!”
“Last week my blacksmith burned down; he was such a skilled blacksmith and knew metalworking skills.”
“Oh, so you’re a buyer! What a pity, really, that I sold honey to merchants so cheaply, but you, my father, would probably have bought it from me.”
The poem “Dead Souls” by N.V. Gogol invites its readers to plunge into a huge variety of completely different and dissimilar heroes. One of the brightest and important characters The landowner Korobochka appears, her image is revealed in the third chapter of the work.
The first meeting of the main character of the poem, Chichikov, and Korobochka occurs completely by accident, when Pavel Ivanovich loses his way to Sobakevich due to bad weather. Chichikov arrives at Korobochka’s estate, in a village off the main road, and stays with her overnight, which is how they meet.
She was an elderly woman, in shabby clothes, who completely devotes her life to the housekeeping that she runs on her estate. Despite the fact that she has only 80 peasant souls, her estate boasts good condition: strong and well maintained houses, strong and healthy men.
Korobochka lives by selling products produced on her estate, such as honey and hemp. She earns quite a lot from this, she tries to make a profit from everything, she has enough for a comfortable life, nevertheless, the landowner likes to complain about life, become poor and underestimate her income. The box is selfish, greedy, stingy, since it did not feed the guest on the road, distrustful and shows excessive suspicion of people. Nevertheless, Korobochka, in her wealthy household, shows hospitality when she gives Chichikov clean clothes, washes dirty ones, and sends a girl to scratch his heel and fluff his pillow.
The landowner Korobochka collects and stores rubbish, her whole life is one of continuous hoarding, and mustiness reigns in her estate. Also, the interior of her house seems quite old-fashioned to Chichikov, as if he was frozen somewhere in time. Nastasya Petrovna believes in both God and the devil, and sometimes tells fortunes with cards. When Chichikov wakes up, he sees a lot of flies, which once again emphasizes old age. Little is known about Korobochka’s family; she is a widow and has no children. In the process of communicating with the landowner, Chichikov begins to lose his temper; he wants to leave her estate as quickly as possible in order to get rid of her.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol calls the landowner an oakhead, because after selling dead souls to Pavel Ivanovich, she goes to the city to find out the true price in order to find out whether she was deceived.
Overall, representing one of the most bright images, Nastasya Petrovna is an ordinary and simple landowner.
Option 2
The poem is presented in the form of a trip by the main character around Russia, where she is shown with all her hardships and problems. The author showed motherland with all its hardships, revealed the reason for the difficult situation of the Russian people and, with the help of satire, exposed the flaws of the existing system. We see how Chichikov, traveling through the southern provinces, wants to inexpensively buy up dead serfs in order to fraudulently get rich and not have to work.
He visits various landowners, among whom Korobochka especially stands out, who is a wealthy landowner, ready to trade with everything her heart desires, including deceased peasants.
Clueless Nastasya Petrovna thinks that she will need to dig up the dead from their graves, and this does not stop her. She intends to do everything just to get a reward. Chichikov, from the first minute, understanding the woman’s character, immediately began to talk with her more freely than with Manilov. He even shouted at her when Korobochka listened to him distractedly. After all, one thing was spinning in her thoughts, just not to give away the dead cheaply, and the rest did not bother her at all.
Korobochka is a powerful lady, she lives by subsistence farming, and at the same time understands how money is obtained. The intelligence of her development wants to leave the best. She can tell you how to protect trees with ripe fruits from birds, but she cannot explain why this had to be done. All of her appearance to say that she is not only clueless, but also sloppy. Moreover, it is full of superstitions. The box believes in fortune telling and all sorts of evil spirits that may appear in the house after midnight. Yes, and in her speech they slip different words inherent in a religious person.
Her whole house looks like a box containing a lot of antiques. When you look at her, you are surprised at how greedy Nastasya Petrovna is. She does not have her own children, and there are no relatives to whom all affairs and property can be transferred, and who needed to be introduced to society. And still, she wants more and more capital.
Korobochka's useless hoarding is almost sinister. She saves money for its own sake, and is not even afraid to let dead people go on sale - just so as not to make a mistake. All her coins are put into different colorful bags, which she takes out and counts every day. Her range of interests is also small. Basically, she communicates only with those people with whom she consults on trading issues.
Little by little, Gogol will lead us to how the desire to get rich, the creation of capital by any means, the endless exploitation of the peasants kills the soul of the landowners. They lose their human appearance. In the image of Korobochka he showed new features of capitalist society.
Essay about landowner Korobochka
Gogol's poem can be read at the most different levels, the author put many different layers of meaning into his creation. If we look at Korobochka superficially, then we have a satire on stupidity and the patriarchal way of life, a parody of the limitations of the individual and excessive practicality, a heroine who surprises with her simplicity.
Gogol emphasizes the simplicity of Korobochka in her speech, which is full of simple and even primitive expressions and, as it were, naively naked. Only children or poorly educated people can speak like this without any embarrassment. The landowner is not distinguished by an exalted mind, but she has quite valuable practical knowledge, these details are also noted, for example, the nets that preserve fruit trees.
Thus, Gogol describes the figure of the down-to-earth people, common people without romanticization. These people, in reality, can be absurd and rude, sit and argue where the wheel will roll, know how to buy and sell more profitably. These people have no idea of anything other than their own little world and are not going to get out of there, mired in the swamp of a banal and primitive existence.
If you look at Korobochka in the context of the symbolic series that the author offers, then this heroine appears as a kind of mystical figure who personifies such mystical heroes as Baba Yaga. For Chichikov, the trip to Korobochka is associated with images of death and afterlife experience. Before arriving, he falls into the ground (an image of a burial), when he wakes up, there are flies sitting on his face (like on a corpse), and if you follow the text, Gogol gives similar hints in almost every phrase.
Korobochka, like the magical old woman from Russian fairy tales, lives in the outskirts and is connected with otherworldly forces. In this reading, lamentations, signs in which she believes (making fortunes on cards, for example) and interior details (for example, fortune telling cards) receive a completely new reading and become unique attributes of the sorceress.
Korobochka is also the only female landowner and her figure stands out from the general outline of landowners, thanks to which her image becomes more interesting and unique.
Nature is mother, nurse, without her human existence will be in jeopardy. It absorbs millions of living beings, all the ecosystems of the planet are its wealth.
Reading in the life of any educated person smart person occupies an important place. Without knowledge gained from books, personality formation is impossible. Why should you read? Reading enriches our inner spiritual life
Roman M.Yu. Lermontov's "Hero of Our Time" was published in 1840. The work is written in five parts. Five separate stories are united by the main character - Pechorin
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Apricot jam in syrup for the winter