Features of the compositional structure of N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector". Artistic features of Gogol's comedy "Inspector General" The structure of the comedy "Inspector General"

Test on the comedy "The Inspector General"

Option 1.

Which of the variants of the origin of the comedy "The Government Inspector" is correct:

c) taken from other sources.

2. Mark the reasons why officials take Khlestakov for an auditor:

A) Khlestakov's stories;

B) a misunderstanding

D) the news of the arrival of the auditor.

3 Mark the features characteristic of officials - the characters of the comedy:

b) negligence;

c) fear of superiors;

d) stupidity;

e) hospitality;

f) use of official position for personal purposes.

4 Mark which type of comic genre is predominantly used in comedy:

B) sarcasm;

B) satire

D) irony.

A) comparison;

B) hyperbole;

B) alogism;

D) grotesque.

6 To which comedy character do these words belong? “And it’s strange: the director left - where he left is unknown. Well, naturally, there was talk: how, what, who to take a place? Many of the generals were hunters and were taken, but they would come up, it happened - no, it's tricky. It seems easy to look at, but look at it - just damn it! ...

A) Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky;

B) Tryapichkin;

B) Khlestakov.

A) overloaded with comic situations;

B) frequent change of action;

C) the appearance of fantastic characters;

D) two endings of the plot.

8 Comedy, like any drama, is written in the form of dialogues and monologues. Remember what is called a dialogue, monologue, replica.

9 What are the events taking place in the comedy.

10 Remember what epigraph prefaced the comedy "The Government Inspector". How did you understand its meaning?

Option 2

Mark which social strata are displayed in the "Auditor":

A) bureaucracy

B) the peasantry;

B) the clergy

D) merchants;

D) philistinism;

E) landowners.

2 note how the system of bribery is built among officials:

A) every official has such a “right”;

B) in relation to bribes, there is a certain subordination;

C) everyone decides for himself how to take bribes.

3 Mark to which group the city depicted in the "Inspector" can be attributed:

A) unique, having absorbed all the vices of Russia;

C) a typical Russian provincial town.

4 Check if the comedy has positive hero:

A) no, not a single character can be called positive;

B) Maria Antonovna;

C) yes, this is the revealing laughter of himself.

5 Note the technique used by the author in the above passage: “...in the mezzanine. I have one staircase standing ... And it’s curious to look at me in the hallway, when I have not yet woken up: counts and princes are pushing and buzzing there, as they were sending, you can only hear: well ... well ... well ... Sometimes the minister ... "?

A) comparison;

B) hyperbole;

B) alogism;

D) grotesque

6 To which comedy character do these words belong: “... because, it happens, you go somewhere - courier and adjutants will gallop forward everywhere: “Horses! And there at the stations they won’t give it to anyone, everyone is waiting: all these titular, captains, governors, and you don’t even blow your mustache. You dine somewhere with the governor ... "

A) Khlestakov;

B) Tryapichkin;

B) Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky.

7 Mark one of the features of the comedy composition:

A) a small number of characters;

B) frequent change of the lyrical hero;

8 What is comedy?

9 Name what events taking place in the comedy "The Government Inspector" can be correlated with each element of the plot.

The exposition is…

Tie-…

The development of action is ...

The climax is...

Decoupling -…

10 Why does the play end with a "silent scene"? What do you think the participants are thinking?

KEY TO THE "AUDITOR" TEST

Option 1: 1- b; 2 - a; b c d; 3 – a b c d f; 4 - in; 5 - in; 6 - in; 7-g;

Option 2: 1- a d e f; 2 - ab; 3 -in; 4-in; 5 - a; 6 - a; 7th c.

N.V. Gogol built his comedy "The Inspector General" on the plot basis of an everyday anecdote, where, due to imposture or an accidental misunderstanding, one person is mistaken for another. This plot was of interest to A. S. Pushkin, but he himself did not use it, losing it to Gogol.

Working diligently and for a long time (from 1834 to 1842) on The Inspector General, reworking and rearranging, inserting some scenes and throwing out others, the writer developed the traditional plot with remarkable skill into an integral and coherent, psychologically convincing and logically consistent interweaving of events. "Unpleasant news" about the arrival of the auditor; commotion among officials; coincidence- the arrival of Khlestakov, in a hurry taken for the expected auditor, and as a result of this - a number of comic situations and incidents; general awe of the imaginary auditor, bribes under the guise of borrowing money when receiving officials, matchmaking for the daughter of the mayor and the “triumph” of the happy Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky family; the safe departure of the “groom” and, finally, the unexpected exposure of everything that happened thanks to Khlestakov’s intercepted letter, the disgrace of the “triumph”, the thunderous news of the arrival of a real auditor, which turned everyone into a “petrified group” - such is the plot outline on which Gogol embroidered the unfading images of his heroes, gave types-characters, at the same time endowing his comedy-satire with a sense of great social value.

The whole course of events, all the behavior of the characters, strictly motivated and following with full plausibility from the personal qualities of these people and the situations that have developed, are connected in The Inspector General by the unity of the plot. The plot is the expected arrival of the auditor and the "mistake" due to which Khlestakov is accepted as the one who was expected. Gogol thoughtfully fulfilled the task of constructing his play, expressed in his own words: “Comedy must knit by itself, with all its mass, into one big common knot. The tie should embrace all faces, not just one or two, touch the one who excites more or less all the actors. Everyone here is a hero...

Gogol's innovation as the author of the comedy was that in The Inspector General there is no obligatory love affair, there are no traditional virtuous persons and reasoners, and an unusually shown vice, which, at the request of the old literary laws, must certainly be punished: the frivolous "dummy" Khlestakov escaped any punishment, and rogue officials, although "petrified", but the viewer knows what awaits them with the arrival of a real auditor. The author himself disparaged his heroes with the truth of their portrayal, deeply faithful showing their beings with that same humor and laughter, which, according to Gogol himself, is the only “honest”, “noble person” in The Inspector General.

The name of the official The sphere of city life that he manages Information on the state of affairs in this area Characteristics of the hero according to the text Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky Mayor: general administration, police, ensuring order in the city, landscaping Takes bribes, condones other officials in this, the city is not comfortable , public money is plundered “He speaks neither loudly nor quietly; neither more nor less”; facial features are rough and hard; crudely developed inclinations of the soul. “Look, my ear […]
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19. Features of the composition in N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector"

Working diligently and for a long time (from 1834 to 1842) on The Inspector General, reworking and rearranging, inserting some scenes and throwing out others, the writer developed the traditional plot with remarkable skill into an integral and coherent, psychologically convincing and logically consistent interweaving of events. "Unpleasant news" about the arrival of the auditor; commotion among officials; an accidental coincidence - the arrival of Khlestakov, in a hurry taken for the expected auditor, and as a result of this - a number of comic situations and incidents; general awe of the imaginary auditor, bribes under the guise of borrowing money when receiving officials, matchmaking for the daughter of the mayor and the “triumph” of the happy Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky family; the safe departure of the “groom” and, finally, the unexpected exposure of everything that happened thanks to Khlestakov’s intercepted letter, the disgrace of the “triumph”, the thunderous news of the arrival of a real auditor, which turned everyone into a “petrified group” - such is the plot outline on which Gogol embroidered the unfading images of his heroes, gave types-characters, at the same time endowing his comedy-satire with a sense of great social value.

20. The life of the county town in the comedy by N. V. Gogol "The Government Inspector"

The era reflected by N.V. Gogol in the comedy "The Inspector General" is the 30s. XIX century, during the reign of Nicholas I. The writer later recalled: “In The Inspector General I decided to collect into one measure all the bad things in Russia that I then knew, all the injustices that are done in those places and those cases where it is most required from a man of justice, and at once laugh at everything. N.V. Gogol not only knew reality well, but also studied many documents. And yet the comedy "The Government Inspector" is piece of art, and its peculiarity is that the writer does not copy life, but rethinks the facts through fiction. The playwright summarized the facts of reality so deeply that the plot of the comedy went far beyond the limits of a specific place and time. County town of the 30s. 19th century became a symbol of autocratic Russia.

With injustice, in other words, with embezzlement, arbitrariness and lawlessness, perpetrated in the town, we are already faced with the first act of the play. People who are entrusted with all the fullness of power, completely turn out to be swindlers and thieves, least of all caring about the prosperity of their city and the well-being of its inhabitants. Acting on the principle of “grab everything that lies badly,” they do not feel the slightest remorse. Some life philosophy of these bureaucratic thieves with impudent sincerity is formulated by the mayor: “Yes, and it is strange to say: there is no person who would not have some sins behind him. It is already so arranged by God himself ... ”So Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky easily appropriates state money, as happened, for example, with the amounts allocated for the construction of the church, without disdaining, however, more modest requisitions from merchants. To match the mayor and other "fathers of the city." In the charitable establishments subordinated to Strawberry, patients look like “blacksmiths”, in the public places, which are under the jurisdiction of Judge Tyapkin-Lyapkin, all living creatures dart under their feet, and such a smell spreads from the assessor, as if he had just left the distillery. As you can understand, the upbringing of youth is done by stupid people, many of whom, to put it mildly, are out of their minds, but this is not particularly worried about the superintendent of educational institutions, Luka Lukich Khlopov. The postmaster devotes himself from morning to evening to his favorite pastime, opening other people's letters. And on the streets of the city, as the mayor himself admits, “a tavern, sewage”, prisoners are not given provisions, and so on.

The picture of the “ruling elite” is complemented by two city landowners, two talkers, Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, whose whole life is spent running around the city and retelling news and gossip, for which they receive (in the penultimate scene) a colorful description: “damned rattles”, “magpies short-tailed." And on the lower rung of the administrative ladder there are landlords - Svistunov, who steals silver spoons and "takes bribes out of order"; Derzhimorda, giving free rein to his fists and "for order" "putting lanterns under everyone's eyes - both the right and the guilty."

And the wife and daughter of the mayor, Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna, provincial coquettes, are the embodiment of that mental emptiness and moral vulgarity that Gogol characterizes women's society in county life. Ordinary residents of the city are no better, starting with merchants heading to Khlestakov with rich gifts to appease the high-ranking guest of the capital, and ending with a non-commissioned officer's widow, mistakenly flogged by the police. Although she is the face of the victim, she does not arouse the slightest sympathy for herself. After all, this “victim of arbitrariness” comes with a complaint against the mayor not at all in order to restore justice or protect his human dignity. No, she asks for material compensation for the damage caused, while declaring: “I have nothing to give up on my happiness, and the money would be very useful to me now.”

Speaking of The Inspector General, it is pointless to look for prototypes of certain actors. As the author himself noted in the introductory "remarks for the gentlemen of the actors", "their originals are almost always in front of your eyes."

After appearing on the St. Petersburg and Moscow stages, the bureaucratic public was indignant. N.V. Gogol was accused of a malicious distortion of reality, of a desire to denigrate Russian life. Then an epigraph appears before the text of the comedy: "There is nothing to blame on the mirror, if the face is crooked." The writer understood that it was not “slander” that aroused indignation, but the truth of life that he wanted to convey to the audience.

21. Images of officials in N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector"

N. V. Gogol wrote about the concept of his comedy: “In The Inspector General I decided to collect into one measure all the bad things in Russia that I knew then, all the injustices that are done in those places and those cases where the most is required from a person justice, and at once laugh at everything. This determined the genre of the work ─ socio-political comedy. It deals not with love affairs, not with the events of private life, but with the phenomena of the public order. The plot of the work is based on a commotion among officials waiting for the auditor, and their desire to hide their “sins” from him. Thus, such compositional feature as the absence of a central character in it. Such a hero in The Inspector General was, in the words of Belinsky, "a corporation of various official thieves of robbers," a mass of bureaucrats. genius writer, depicting this picture, he knew how to draw each image included in it in such a way that he did not lose his individual originality, at the same time representing a typical phenomenon of the life of that period.

How is it depicted chief representative the bureaucratic little world of the Russian province - the mayor?

This is a dodgy, intelligent, rude person who has earned himself a long hard service, who is used to grabbing everything that “floats into his hands”. In a moment of malicious frankness, he admits that not a single merchant, not a single contractor could trick him, that he deceived scammers over scammers, even deceived three governors. With ease, Anton Antonovich appropriates state money, as happened, for example, with the amounts allocated for the construction of the church, without disdaining, however, more modest requisitions from merchants. The head of the city is perfectly aware of all the riots, lawlessness that is happening both on the streets and in institutions. But he has his own philosophy: “There is no person who does not have some sins behind him. This is already so arranged by God himself ... "Therefore, before the auditor arrives, he gives his subordinates to cover up the blatant outrages in the institutions under their jurisdiction, while stipulating:" Yes, I just noticed to you, "I just mentioned the county court, but to tell the truth, hardly anyone will ever look there”, “I wanted to tell you about this for a long time, but I was probably entertained by something.” He knows perfectly well that the streets are unclean, that the prisoners are not given provisions. But all this does not bother the owner of the city. If only it didn’t reach the authorities, and he knows how to dodge in difficult situations. What is only one of his decisions under the guise of a caring mayor to visit the alleged auditor in the hotel! But the dreams of this “serious” person do not extend beyond the fantasies of the “stupid” Khlestakov: to become a “high-flying bird”, “get into the generals”, have a general’s red ribbon over his shoulder and feast on “two fish”: vendace and smelt, living in St. Petersburg .

To match the mayor and other "fathers of the city." Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin is a lover of dog hunting, taking bribes only with greyhound puppies and is considered a “freethinker” in the city, since he “read five or six books”; obliging and fussy sly, scammer and rogue, fat Strawberry, trustee of charitable institutions, arguing about healing: “Khristian Ivanovich and I took our measures: the closer to nature, the better, we don’t use expensive medicines. A simple man: if he dies, he will die anyway; if he recovers, then he will recover. Yes, and it was difficult for Khristian Ivanovich to communicate with them: he does not know a word of Russian.

And here is Khlopov, superintendent of schools, who lives in eternal fear of any revisions and complains about the burden of "serving in the scientific department." And the ingenuously naive postmaster Shpekin is engaged in “interesting” reading of opened letters at his post office in order to find out what is new in the world.

If there are any differences between the “fathers of the city”, then they are imaginary, purely external. All of them take bribes, all of them are indifferent to the people they are assigned to manage, they all consider themselves sovereign masters of life, free to manage affairs at their own discretion, regardless of any laws. Naturally, the news of the arrival of the inspector incognito in the city did not bring great joy to any of them, but what is noteworthy, it did not cause much fear either. Knowing a lot of “sins” behind them and knowing full well that at least some of them will definitely open, city administration officials are absolutely sure that this time they will be able to get away with it, because this is not the first time they have dealt with the auditor! Apparently, they are reassured by a simple calculation based on many years of experience: you need not only to take bribes, but also, if necessary, be able to give them, which they do when they go to an appointment with the “auditor”, where they humiliate, lie down, get out.

From the stories of the characters, as if involuntarily talking about their black deeds, about various incidents from city life, an eerie picture of provincial life is formed, which reflects the whole county Russia, all the disenfranchised life of its population, the gross arbitrariness of the administration, embezzlement, bribery, ignorance, gossip, stupidity, vulgarity, the insignificance of all interests - a vivid denunciation of the entire bureaucratic police of Nikolaev Russia. Such is the “crooked face” of Russian life, shown by N.V. Gogol in the mirror of comedy.

22. Khlestakov - main character comedy by N. V. Gogol "The Government Inspector"

N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" has a peculiar character of a dramatic conflict. There is neither a hero-ideologist in it, nor a conscious deceiver who leads everyone by the nose. The officials themselves are deceiving themselves, imposing on Khlestakov the role of a significant person, forcing him to play it. Khlestakov is in the center of events, but does not lead the action, but, as it were, involuntarily involved in it and surrenders to its movement. The group of negative characters, satirically depicted by Gogol, is opposed not by a positive hero, but by the flesh of the flesh of the same bureaucratic caste - a lightweight, but pretentious empty person who has an unusual ability to apply himself to others without spending any effort on it, absolutely incapable of any independent decisions and conscious intentions. “He is like water that takes the form of any vessel,” notes Yu. Mann.

According to his official position, Khlestakov occupies the most modest rung on the ladder of ranks: he is a collegiate registrar, an official of the lowest class. He won nothing, he squandered everything, and now his father demands him home, to the Saratov province. He had to stop in a county town: all the money was lost, but even a difficult situation could not make Khlestakov seriously think about anything. He does not understand anything during a meeting with the mayor: he defends himself with complaints about the innkeeper, gets excited, absurdly and ridiculously angry, covering up his fear and confusion. And after receiving the money and an invitation to come to the mayor’s house, he begins to play the role of an amiable and enlightened guest, who is finally appreciated.

Having visited a charitable institution where Khlestakov had a great breakfast, he was at the height of bliss. “Cut off and cut off hitherto in everything ... he started talking, not knowing at the beginning of the conversation, where will he go his speech." .

Through the efforts of others, excellent conditions have been created so that everything that was hidden in the soul of this “empty” little man, that was drawn in his ridiculous dreams, was revealed with complete frankness. Life, which is revealed to the stunned listeners of Khlestakov's chatter, is not only the ideal realization of Khlestakov's life principle: “After all, you live for that, in order to pick flowers of pleasure,” this is also the limit of all the aspirations of the ruling circle of this province: all benefits are acquired already because you exist and you want it.

Khlestakov mobilizes all his meager stock of information about the life of the Petersburg nobility, about events and literature, and makes himself the central character. Overwhelmed by an irresistible desire to play a role at least a little higher than the one prepared for him by fate, in this "best and most poetic moment in his life" Khlestakov longs to appear not only as a secular man, but also as a "state" man. N.V. Gogol wanted to present in this character “a person who tells fables with fervor, with enthusiasm, who himself does not know how words fly out of his mouth ...”

Neither the mayor nor the officials question what Khlestakov is talking about. His words, on the contrary, strengthen their faith that the inspector sent to them is significant person, "statesman", nobleman.

In the scenes of the official presentation of local officials, Ivan Alexandrovich is already beginning to vaguely guess that he is taken for a "bossy person". This not only does not embarrass him, but also encourages him to take more decisive action: requests for money become like demands, and, listening to visitors, promising and allowing, he behaves no worse than any really important official.

It is interesting how in the end Khlestakov explains to himself the reason for the delusion of the townspeople in a letter to Tryapichkin, he writes: “Suddenly, in my Petersburg physiognomy and in my suit, the whole city mistook me for the governor-general.” By his habit, he greatly exaggerated the possible position and rank of the person for whom he was accepted (this flatters his vanity), and at the same time very comically motivates the mistake of officials. After all, it was Khlestakov’s appearance (“like a fly with cut wings”) that caused bewilderment of the mayor with its discrepancy with the importance and significance of the rank and position of the auditor.

Khlestakov "still wants to live here ..." And only a reminder of his father's anger and the tempting prospect of getting good horses, and so that the coachmen "rolled like courier! and sang songs! makes him agree to leave.

Having made the decision to leave, he plays with even greater confidence the role of a government official exposed by the authorities and importantly accepts the complaints of the merchants and the bourgeoisie against the arbitrariness of the mayor. However, Khlestakov’s exclamations (“Oh, what a swindler he is! .. Yes, he’s just a robber! .. Yes, just to Siberia for that”) does not at all mean any indignation at the arbitrariness of the mayor: Khlestakov admires himself, trying on the role of governor general, - but only.

But he cannot withstand the onslaught of complainers and petitions for a long time, it bothers him, especially since there is an opportunity to show off his secularism and metropolitan manners in front of the ladies. And now Khlestakov in a new role - in the role of a mad lover. But to whom: to a mother or daughter - it doesn’t matter, after all, you need to think about it, but there are no thoughts in your head.

Therefore, Khlestakov managed to deceive the mayor, that he did not deliberately deceive, but acted sincerely and frankly. And he did everything that the “fathers of the city” fearfully expected from a real auditor: he caught up with fear, collected bribes and disappeared as suddenly as he appeared. However, his appearance is very significant. It reveals the fictitiousness, the inner emptiness of Russian reality, in which the place and significance of a person is determined not by his talents and virtues, but by some kind of ridiculous game of “important” and “unimportant” persons.

23. Khlestakov and Khlestakovism in N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector"

The great artistic merit of N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" lies in the typicality of its images. He himself expressed the idea that the "originals" of most of the characters in his comedy "are almost always in front of my eyes." And about Khlestakov, the writer says that this is “a type of much scattered in different Russian characters ... Everyone, even for a minute ... was or is being made by Khlestakov. And a dexterous officer of the Guards will sometimes turn out to be Khlestakov, and a statesman will sometimes turn out to be Khlestakov, and our sinful brother, a writer, will sometimes turn out to be Khlestakov.

In this hero, both mental insignificance, and the squalor of spiritual life, and the absence of moral convictions, and swagger, the ability to special vulgarity, and the desire to "play a role higher than one's own" were combined. Through the efforts of others, conditions have been created for revealing with complete frankness everything that lurked in the soul of this “emptiest” little man, that was drawn in his ridiculous dreams. Officials believe the stories of Ivan Alexandrovich because in his chatter not only the Khlestakov principle is realized: “After all, you live for that, to pluck flowers of pleasure,” but also their ultimate dream: to have power, acquaintances, fame, money, without making any effort, without wasting mind and heart, without having any daily duties. Therefore, the mayor becomes like Khlestakov, who believes that “he marries his daughter not only to some ordinary person, but to someone who has not yet been in the world, that he can do everything, everything, everything, everything!” In his and Anna Andreevna's dreams, a house appears, which should be the first in the capital, just like Khlestakov's, delicious fish, a red general's ribbon over his shoulder, horses on which you ride for dinner. N.V. Gogol specifically makes these repetitions in the speech of his heroes, showing how the mayor becomes Khlestakov.

Khlestakovism, i.e. bragging, not supported by opportunities, deeds, the desire to seem not what you really are, inner emptiness, irresponsibility, vanity; the phenomenon is very persistent. In our time, unfortunately, there are also people with similar qualities. Thanks to the comedy of N.V. Gogol, we understand the price of such whiplash and try to stay away from them.

24. Analysis of the scene of lies in N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" (act III, phenomenon VI)

A feature of Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector" is that it has a "mirage intrigue", that is, officials are fighting against a ghost created by their bad conscience and fear of retribution. Anyone who is mistaken for an auditor does not even make any deliberate attempts to deceive, to fool the officials who have fallen into error.

The development of the action reaches its climax in act III. The comic fight continues. The mayor deliberately goes to his goal: to force Khlestakov to “let slip”, “tell more” in order to “find out what he is and to what extent he should be feared.” After visiting a charitable institution where a magnificent breakfast was offered to the guest, Khlestakov was at the height of bliss. “Cut off and cut off hitherto in everything, even in the manner of walking a trump card along Nevsky Prospekt, he felt spaciousness and suddenly turned around unexpectedly for himself, he started talking, not knowing at the beginning of the conversation where his speech would go. Topics for conversations are given to him by the investigators. They seem to put everything in his mouth and create a conversation, ”N.V. Gogol writes in Forewarning. In a few minutes in the scene of lies, Khlestakov makes a dizzying career: from a petty official (“You may think that I am only copying ...”) to a field marshal (“The State Council itself is afraid of me”). The action in this scene develops with ever-increasing energy. On the one hand, these are the stories of Ivan Alexandrovich, gradually losing all credibility and reaching their climax at the end of the phenomenon. On the other hand, this is the behavior of the listeners, who become more and more frightened by the speeches of the guest. Their experiences are expressively conveyed by remarks: at the beginning of the conversation, “the mayor and everyone sit down” at the gracious invitation of Khlestakov, however, at the mention that in his hallway one can supposedly meet counts and princes, even the minister, “the mayor and others get up from their chairs with timidity”. The words: “And for sure, it happened, as I pass through the department - just an earthquake, everything trembles and shakes like a leaf” - are accompanied by a remark: “the mayor and others are lost in fear.” At the end of the scene, the mayor, “approaching and shaking with his whole body, tries to utter” something, but with fright he cannot utter a word.

During his speech, Khlestakov, as it were, instinctively captures the nature of the impression he makes, spurring the fear experienced by the audience, the expectation of stories about the scale of life and service relations unusual for provincials. His exaggerations are purely quantitative: "seven hundred rubles a watermelon", "thirty-five thousand one couriers." Showing off in front of the ladies, he mobilizes all his meager supply of information about the life of the St. Petersburg nobility, about events and literature. “Khlestakov doesn’t lie about everything at all, he sometimes just reports sensational metropolitan news - about the magnificence of the balls, about the soup that arrived on the ship from Paris, that Baron Brambeus corrects other people’s articles, that Smirdin pays him a lot of money, that that the “Nadezhda” Frigate is a huge success, and finally, that Pushkin, with whom he is “on a friendly footing”, is a “great original”, writes A. G. Gukasova in the article “The Inspector General Comedy”.

However, all these real facts are displaced and redirected, the narrator himself becomes the central person in all events.

Due to Khlestakov’s unintentionality, it is difficult to catch him in a lie - he, lying, easily gets out of a difficult situation: “As you run up the stairs to your fourth floor, you only say to the cook:“ On, Mavrushka, overcoat ... “Well, I'm lying - I and forgot that I live in the mezzanine.

Seized by an irresistible desire to play a role a little higher than the one that fate foresaw for him, in this "best and most poetic moment in his life," Khlestakov longs to appear not only as a secular man, but also as a "state" man.

Neither the mayor nor the officials question what Khlestakov is talking about, on the contrary, they are strengthened in the belief that the auditor sent to them is a significant state person. “A strange thing is happening. The wick, the match, the boy Khlestakov, by the power of fear and reverence for him, grows into a person, becomes a dignitary, becomes what they see in him, ”G. A. Gukovsky concludes from this scene in the article “Gogol's Realism”.

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Among the features of The Inspector General, as a comedy, are:

the absence of positive types, which were the reasoners in the comedies of the 18th century, which is Chatsky in Griboyedov. However, Gogol himself found that in his comedy there is a positive, noble face, namely, laughter; but under this face, in fact, the author himself is hiding, exposing his unsightly heroes to general ridicule.
Another feature of comedy is the absence of a love affair in it, which was previously considered an almost inevitable attribute of any play.
This feature is associated with the special nature of the plot of the whole comedy. Gogol himself says on this occasion: “Comedy must knit by itself, with all its mass, into one big common knot. The tie should embrace all faces, and not just one or two, touch what worries more or less all actors ... "

In this regard, the plot of the comedy was chosen by Gogol extremely well: the news of the auditor, indeed, touches the nerves of all the people who have been brought out, produces a general shock, makes everyone involuntarily show their character.

The mere circumstance that they were so easily deceived sufficiently characterizes the deceived persons; this was reflected in the restless state of their conscience, the consciousness of their misdeeds, the fear of legal punishment, which, as it were, blinds them and makes, in the words of the mayor, "mistake an icicle, a rag for an important person."

The scene of action in The Inspector General is a provincial provincial town, from which, as one of the characters in the comedy says, even if you “jump for three years, you won’t reach any state.”

The time of action is easy to establish from the words of the judge (the character in the comedy). This is the beginning of the 30s.

The actors of the comedy are mostly officials who came from the ranks of the nobility, but next to them are other social groups: urban landowners, merchants, philistines, etc.

The author of the comedy was faced with the question of why the bureaucracy was working so ugly, criminally in different parts of Russia. Answering this question, Gogol unfolds his picture before us. He connects officials with merchants, with philistines, and, developing the action, takes the moment when “unpleasant news” about the impending arrival of the auditor “incognito”, “with a secret order” falls on the heads of officials.

As if struck by thunder, officials fuss, get lost, they are seized by boundless fear: after all, they were sure that no auditor's eye would look into such a wilderness as their town.

This moment of receiving the news, which created a movement in the ranks of officials, called them to a series of actions, is the beginning of a comedy. The plot is followed by a chain of events that draw before us a very interesting struggle. All of it is built on the self-deception of officials: in essence, they are fighting a ghost and thanks to this they find themselves in extremely comic situations. Nevertheless, the struggle continues, growing and growing in its tension.

The struggle reaches its highest point in the scene of Khlestakov's courtship. Officials are confident that the audit will end successfully, and triumph. However, the celebration is premature. Khlestakov's letter to his St. Petersburg friend, opened by the postmaster, opens the eyes of officials to everything that happened, and they feel "fools."

This moment we call the denouement. However, Gogol does not stop the comedy here: it is not enough for him to leave the officials “in the cold”, he wants to punish them for all the lies so that their repetition becomes impossible. Hence the last scene with the gendarme, leading the rogue officials into a complete stupor.

In the comedy The Inspector General, the action takes place not in the capital and not among the highest officials, but in the outback. The actors, on the other hand, belong to the provincial minority, who only in their sweet dreams dream of the rank of general. But here, too, Gogol achieves very great results thanks to the unusually artistic performance of the task.

The plot of the comedy lies in the fact that in a certain small county town, a young official from St. Petersburg who accidentally passes by is mistaken for an important person who has come to revise the county. Everything in the town was in turmoil. All officials vying with each other are trying to cover up sins and bring subordinate institutions into proper form, and most importantly, to appease an important person with bribes. This, of course, they succeed completely, and at the moment when they are already celebrating their victory, not a fictitious, but a real auditor appears.

At one time, Gogol was reproached for such a plot. They pointed to its artificiality and implausibility. But, firstly, it must be taken into account that such cases actually took place in those days. Secondly, such an exceptional circumstance made it possible for Gogol to bring to the stage, in a concise and small volume
work, the whole "inside story" of county life.

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (surname at birth Yanovsky, since 1821 - Gogol-Yanovsky; 1809 years, Sorochintsy, Poltava province - 1852 year, Moscow) - Russian prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist, recognized as one of the classics of Russian literature. He came from an old noble family Gogol-Yanovsky. Together with Pushkin, Gogol appeared the founder of critical realism in Russian literature. The name of Gogol was the banner of revolutionary Russia - the Russia of Belinsky, Herzen and Chernyshevsky. Belinsky called Gogol "one of the great leaders" countries "on the way of consciousness, development, progress". Chernyshevsky considered Gogol "the father of Russian prose", the head of the school that gave Russian literature "a resolute striving for content, and, moreover, striving in such a fruitful direction as critical." In the deaf years of the feudal Nikolaev regime, Gogol denounced the landowners, tsarist officials and purchasers with terrible force.

Gogol began work on the play in the autumn of 1835. It is traditionally believed that the plot was suggested to him by A. S. Pushkin. This is confirmed by the memoirs of the Russian writer Vladimir Sollogub: “Pushkin met Gogol and told him about the case of some passing gentleman who pretended to be a ministry official and robbed all city residents.” According to another version , also described by V. Sollogub, On September 2, 1833, the governor-general of Nizhny Novgorod, Buturlin, took over as the auditor of Pushkin himself, when Alexander Sergeevich arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to collect materials about the Pugachev rebellion.

Gogol himself spoke of his work in the following way: In The Inspector General, I decided to gather together everything that was bad in Russia, which I then knew, all the injustices that are being done in those places and in those cases where justice is most required of a person, and at one time laugh at everything.

The stage fate of the play did not develop immediately. It was possible to obtain permission for the production only after Zhukovsky managed to convince the emperor personally that “there is nothing unreliable in comedy, that it is only a cheerful mockery of bad provincial officials,” the play was allowed to be staged. The second edition of the play dates back to 1842.

Realism in the composition of the comedy "The Government Inspector" (language emphasizes Realism, the role of remarks)

Gogol brought out a gallery of immortal images in comedy, giving each of them typical features and endowing each of them with a bright individualized speech characteristic. Language Gogol's comedy is mainly the language of its characters, and the language of the characters, organically connected with the internal appearance of this or that character, is the main means of revealing the character.. Not only central characters, but even episodic characters who flashed through only one phenomenon have a highly individualized speech. In the unsurpassed ability to give each image a convex, distinctly individualized speech characteristic and in this very characteristic to include elements of satirical self-revelation lies the skill of Gogol the realist, surprising in its subtlety and aesthetic value. Uncovering the speech of the characters belonging to various social circles(officials, hinderers, merchants, less, policemen, servants) Gogol skillfully knows how to endow each of them with words and expressions, inherent in his social psychology, profession, his life experience.In general, the speech of the characters is distinguished by truthfulness, simplicity, naturalness, an abundance of colloquial and colloquial turns and intonations, which gives the whole work the character of genuine realism.

In order to reveal the inner world of the character Gogol often resorts to remarks. In some remarks, Gogol points to the actions of the characters, for example: the mayor “makes a grimace”, Bobchichinsky “twirls his hand near his forehead”, the quarterly “runs in a hurry”, Khlestakov “pours soup and eats” and many others; in other remarks clarifies the psychology of the characters: the mayor says “in fear”, Anna Andreevna - “with disdain”, Khlestakov - “drawing”, the judge - “lost”, Marya Antonovna - “through tears”, etc. Sometimes Gogol draws the psychological evolution of characters with several side by side remarks .

Innovation of N.V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector" (problematics of comedy, speech, typification of comedy heroes)

The appearance in 1836 of the comedy The Inspector General was a significant event in the public life of the 19th century.. The author not only criticized and ridiculed the vices of tsarist Russia, but also called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal human values. Gogol called his comedy a play that "raises public abuses." Epigraph "There is nothing to blame on the mirror, if the face is crooked" emphasizes the problematics of the play, generalizing the accusatory meaning of The Inspector General. “Everyone got it here, and most of all to me,” Nicholas I himself once said.

Talking about the innovation of comedy, it is important to note that Khlestakov's character was new in literature . Yes, of course, even before N.V. Gogol, rogues and swindlers, liars and braggarts were ridiculed in comedies, but the characterization of such characters was usually limited to any one feature. And Khlestakov becomes a more complex hero, this is a generalized image that includes many vices.

Gogol's heroes are typical, they can be found at all times and epochs. And today, more than a century and a half after the play was written, you can meet the mayor, Lyapkins - Tyapkins, strawberries, cotton. Gogol does not endow his heroes with some exceptional traits of virtue or depravity, as was done before. His characters are realistic, and therefore they cannot be divided into "bad" and "good". Each of them is "sick" with some kind of social ailment...

There are no positive characters in the play.. “Why hasn’t at least one exalted, noble person been put up here, on whom the thought would have rested? Then, that a good person would be pale and insignificant here ”- said Gogol himself. It is also important to note that the speech of the same hero changes depending on the circumstances, which creates the comical nature of the whole situation as a whole. The mayor is very rude to his subordinates, calling them archwives, samovars, yardsticks, cheaters. But his vocabulary is completely different in a conversation with Khlestakov, to whom he says: “let me suggest”, “I wish you good health”, “do not make unhappy”.

Thus, we can say that the appearance of the auditor was of great importance for Russian literature of the nineteenth century. Gogol abandoned many classical norms in creating his comedy and introduced many new principles that characterize the characters from a new perspective.

Composition, plot

The composition of the play is also unusual, since it does not have a traditional exposition.. From the very first phrase of the Gorodnichiy, the plot begins. The final silent scene also surprised theater critics a lot. Previously, no one used such a technique in dramaturgy.

The classic confusion with the main character takes on a completely different meaning from Gogol.. Khlestakov was not going to pretend to be an auditor, for some time he himself could not understand what was happening. He simply thought that the district authorities were fawning over him only because he was from the capital and fashionably dressed. Osip finally opens his eyes to the dandy, persuading the master to leave before it's too late. Khlestakov does not seek to deceive anyone. Officials are deceived themselves and involve the imaginary auditor in this action.

The plot of the comedy is built on a closed principle: the play begins with the news about the arrival of the auditor and ends with the same message. Gogol's innovation was also manifested in the fact that in comedy no subplots. All characters locked in a dynamic conflict.

The main character himself was an undoubted innovation.. For the first time he was a stupid, empty and insignificant person. The writer characterizes Khlestakov in this way: "without a king in his head." The character of the hero is most fully manifested in scenes of lies. Khlestakov is so inspired by his own imagination that he cannot stop. He piles up one absurdity after another, he does not even doubt the "truthfulness" of his lies. A player, a spendthrift, a lover of hitting on women and throwing dust in the eyes, a “dummy” - this is the main character of the work.

In the play, Gogol touched upon a large-scale layer of Russian reality: state power, medicine, court, education, post office, police, merchants. The writer raises and ridicules many unsightly features of modern life in The Inspector General. Here is total bribery and neglect of one's duties, embezzlement and servility, vanity and a passion for gossip, envy and deception, boasting and stupidity, petty vindictiveness and stupidity. … Why not! The Inspector General is a real mirror of Russian society.

Unusual for a play is the strength of the plot, its spring. This is fear. AT Russia XIX centuries, the audit was carried out by high-ranking officials. Therefore, the arrival of the “auditor” caused such a panic in the county town. An important person from the capital, and even with a "secret order", horrified the local officials. Khlestakov, who in no way resembles an inspector, is easily mistaken for an important person. Anyone passing from St. Petersburg is suspicious. And this one lives for two weeks and does not pay - this is exactly how, according to the inhabitants, a person of high rank should behave.

The structure of the comedy "The Government Inspector"

The comedy was not written as an ordinary story (text divided into chapters), but as a script for a play. Comedy reads very well in this style: less description, more action (dialogue). In contrast to conventional works, where character descriptions go only when they meet the reader, the descriptions of the characters are written on the first pages of the comedy.

The atmosphere of the comedy "The Inspector General". Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol chose a simple county town as the scene of action. But still, it cannot be called simple, since Gogol tried to depict Russia in miniature.

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In comedy, Gogol created collective image officials. Civil servants of all ranks are perceived as a single organism, since they are close in their desire for money-grubbing, confident in impunity and the correctness of their actions. But each character leads his own party.

Chief here, of course, mayor. Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky in service for thirty years. As a grasping person, he does not miss the benefit that floats into his hands. But the city is in complete disarray. The streets are filthy, the prisoners and the sick are disgustingly fed, the policemen are always drunk and loose their hands. The mayor pulls the beards of merchants and celebrates name days twice a year to get more gifts. The money allocated for the construction of the church has disappeared. The appearance of the auditor greatly frightens Anton Antonovich. What if the inspector does not take bribes? Seeing that Khlestakov takes money, the mayor calms down I try to please an important person by all means. The second time Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky is frightened when Khlestakov boasts of his high position. Here he becomes afraid to fall into disfavor. How much money to give?

funny image Judge Lyapkina-Tyapkina, who passionately loves dog hunting, takes bribes with greyhound puppies, sincerely believing that this is "a completely different matter." There is a complete mess in the waiting room of the court: the watchman brought geese, “all sorts of rubbish” is hung on the walls, the assessor is constantly drunk. And Lyapkin-Tyapkin himself cannot figure out a simple memorandum . In the city, the judge is considered a "freethinker", since he has read several books and always speaks pompously, albeit completely stupid.

Postmaster Shpekin sincerely wonders why you can not read other people's letters. For him, all life is interesting stories from letters. The postmaster even keeps the correspondence he especially likes and rereads it.

In the hospital trustee of charitable institutions Strawberry there is also chaos. Patients do not change underwear, and the German doctor does not understand anything in Russian. Strawberry is a toady and an informer, not averse to throwing mud at his comrades.

Attractive comical couple urban gossips Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky. To enhance the effect, Gogol makes them similar in appearance and gives the same names, even the names of the characters differ in only one letter. They are completely empty and useless people. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky are busy only collecting gossip. Thus, they manage to be in the center of attention and feel their importance.

superintendent of schools Luka Lukich Khlopov is mortally afraid of the authorities, is distinguished by extreme ignorance; policemen Ukhovertov, Svistunov and Derzhimorda always drunk, rude to the inhabitants of the town.

Khlestakov's character consists of contradictions, he behaves “as it turns out”, and therefore at different moments he demonstrates a variety of behaviors: either begging for food humbly, then taking on a patronizing look in the scene with petitioners, then uncontrollably boasting, reveling in his own fantasies, in a conversation with groveling before him city officials. Officials, listening to Khlestakov's insane, illogical lies, understand that he is stupid, but his mythical rank overshadows human qualities, so no one notices the many contradictions and reservations that betray his true position. Khlestakov is not able to imagine real life(for example, what ministers do, how “friend” Pushkin lives and writes), his imagination is poor: nothing but soup that arrived on a steamer from Paris, and a watermelon worth seven hundred rubles, comes to his mind; despite the fantastic cost, his apartment corresponds to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe luxury of a petty official - "three rooms are sort of good."

The image of Khlestakov as a representative of the noble and bureaucratic society of the Nikolaev era is typical. His ambitious dreams, the desire for ostentatious luxury and external glamor, the desire to splurge on the utter insignificance and emptiness of the personality were called "Khlestakovism", and Khlestakov's surname became a household name.

The only positive comedy character is laughter.