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Gogol`s Dead Souls

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Gogol 's dead souls

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Abstract

Dead Souls is considered to be a satirical poem written by the great Russian classicist Nikolai Govol . The plot for the given novel was suggested him by Pushkin . A lot of classic literature critics pointed out that the novel comes under the category of reformist or satirical works (Maguire , 1994 ,

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Gogol 's dead souls

It is not a surprise that there are a lot

of different opinions about Dead Souls poem and Gogol 's writing style . It should be noticed that many specialists consider Dead Souls as a modern-day epic , while other critics think that it is ridiculous and even offensive for claiming such a status for the novel (Maguire , 1994 ,

.71 . Nevertheless , the majority of literature critics continue to state that having written Dead Souls novel , Nikolai Gogol made a significant contribution to the development of the World classic literature and have to be considered as a great writer . Let 's make a deep analysis of the given literary masterpiece and try to understand if these people are right and why they think so

The situation from which the plot begins to develop is connected with the real problems and events which took place in the Russian history Coming back to Gogol 's days , we can see that the lands owned at that time were measured in the number of so-called "souls " living on them Thus , landowners had to be serf owners . The special census was held every ten years and some landowners used any splendid opportunity to count even died serfs as living until the next census

In Dead Souls poem , Gogol managed to create five characters of different persons , which described the portrait of Russian landowner in detail Manilov is the first person , who opened Gogol 's gallery of landowners He is a silly sentimentalist with pursed lips , who didn 't understand the life . Korobochka is a stupid widow , who understood the benefit from selling such unusual merchant as dead souls . The author used irony for describing the dialog between Chichikov and Korobochka . Sobakevich is a strong , silent , economical man , who was always ready to derive benefit even from nothing . Describing Nozdryov , the writer showed the cheat and bully man , who had the manners of a hearty good fellow . Using Plyushkin 's character Gogol emphasized the different forms of economical , social and spiritual degradation of landowner class (Maguire , 1994 ,

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As it is known , Nikolai Gogol wanted his Dead Souls poem to become the detailed of the social system and events , which took place in post- HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Napoleonic " \o "Napoleonic " Napoleonic Russia

We can see the author demonstrated a humorously ironic writing style for characterizing the different types of Russian landowners . In fact , the originality of that style helped Gogol to describe their stupidity coarseness , and even ugliness . However , the ironic style is replaced by a...

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