Post images of officials in the comedy examiner. Officials of the county town Name of the official Sphere of city life, which he supervises Information about the state of affairs in this area Characteristics of the hero in the text

Post images of officials in the comedy examiner. Officials of the county town Name of the official Sphere of city life, which he supervises Information about the state of affairs in this area Characteristics of the hero in the text
Official's name The sphere of urban life, which he leads Information on the state of affairs in this area Characteristics of the hero according to the text
Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky Governor: general management, police, maintenance of order in the city, improvement Takes bribes, condones other officials in this, the city is not well-equipped, state money is plundered “Speaks neither loudly nor softly; neither more nor less "; facial features are rough and hard; grossly developed inclinations of the soul. "Look, I have my ear! .. you take it out of rank!" Merchants "stand still, at least get into the noose." In a silent scene: “Why are you laughing? You are laughing at yourself! .. "
Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin Judge He is more involved in hunting than legal proceedings. The judge is always drunk. "A person who has read five or six books"; takes bribes "greyhound puppies". “I've been sitting in the judge’s chair for fifteen years now, but when I look into the memo - ah! I'll just wave my hand "
Artemy Filippovich Strawberry Trustee of Godly Institutions "Sick people, like flies, recover", feed them sour cabbage, do not use expensive medicines "A very fat, clumsy and clumsy person, but with all that a sly and a rogue"; "Perfect pig in a yarmulke"; offers to "slip" a bribe to the auditor; informs him about other officials. "A simple man: if he dies, he will die, if he recovers, then he will get well anyway."
Luka Lukich Khlopov Superintendent of schools Teachers "have very strange behaviors" Frightened by frequent inspections of auditors and reprimands for no reason, and therefore afraid, like fire, of any visits; "You are afraid of everything: everyone gets in the way, everyone wants to show that he is also an intelligent person."
Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin Postmaster Things are in desolation, reads other people's letters, parcels do not reach An innocent person to the point of naivety, reading other people's letters is "interesting reading", "I love to learn death what is new in the world."
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  • In the comedy "The Inspector General" Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol gave a broad picture of bureaucratic and bureaucratic rule in Russia in the 1830s. In the comedy, the everyday side of the life of the inhabitants of a small county town: insignificance of interests, hypocrisy and lies, arrogance and complete absence human dignity, superstition and gossip. This is revealed in the images of the landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, the wife and daughter of the governor, merchants and bourgeois women. But most of all, the life and customs of this city are characterized by its officials. Describing officials, N.V., Gogol showed massive abuses of power, embezzlement and bribery, arbitrariness and disdain for common people... All these phenomena were characteristic, deep-rooted features of the bureaucracy of Nicholas Russia. This is how the civil servants appear before us in the comedy "The Inspector General".

    At the head of all is the mayor. We see that he is not stupid: more sensibly than his colleagues, he judges the reasons for sending an auditor to them. Wise with life and work experience, he "deceived swindlers over swindlers." The governor is a convinced bribe-taker: "This is how God himself arranged it, and the Volterians in vain speak against it." He constantly misappropriates state money for himself. The purpose of the aspirations of this official is "over time ... to get into the generals." And in dealing with subordinates, he is rude and arbitrary. "What, samovars, arshinniks ..." - he turns to them. In a completely different way, this man speaks to his superiors: ingratiatingly, respectfully. Using the example of the mayor, Gogol shows us such typical features Russian bureaucracy, as bribery, honor.

    The group portrait of a typical Nikolaev official is well complemented by the judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin. His surname alone speaks of the attitude of this official to his service. It is these people who profess the principle of "the law is that the tongue." Lyapkin-Tyapkin - a representative of the elective government ("elected by the judge at the behest of the nobility"). Therefore, he behaves freely even with the mayor, allows himself to challenge him. Since this man has read 5-6 books in his life, he is considered "a free-thinker and educated." This detail underlines the ignorance of officials and their low level of education.

    We also learn about Lyapkin-Tyapkin, that he is fond of hunting, so he takes bribes with greyhound puppies. He does not deal with business at all, and the court is in disorder.

    About complete indifference to public service of the people who are on it speaks in comedy and the image of the trustee of charitable institutions of Strawberry, "a fat man, but a thin rogue." In the hospital under his supervision, patients die like flies, the doctor "does not know a word in Russian." Strawberries, meanwhile, reason: “A simple man; if he dies, he will die so; if he recovers, he will get better anyway. " As a typical representative of the bureaucracy, he is also characterized by servility before his superiors and a willingness to convey to his colleagues, which he does when Khlestakov arrives.

    The supervisor of the district schools, Luka Lukich Khlopov, is also in awe of his superiors, a man frightened to death. “Talk to me of the same rank, someone higher, I just don’t have a soul, and my tongue is stuck like mud,” he says. And the postmaster Shpekin did not find a better job for himself than to open letters. The limitedness of this "naive to the point of naivety" person is evidenced by the fact that it is from other people's letters that he draws his knowledge about life.

    Probably, a group portrait of Russian bureaucracy in the 30s of the XIX century would not be complete without such bright character comedy, like Khlestakov, who is mistaken for a secret auditor. As Gogol writes, this is “one of those people who are called empty in the offices. Speaks and acts without any consideration. " Significance in the comedy of the image of Khlestakov is also in the fact that he does not belong to the circle of provincial officials. But, as we can see, a St. Petersburg employee, in terms of his education level, moral qualities no higher than the rest of the characters in the comedy. This speaks of the generalizing nature of the officials portrayed in the comedy - such are they all over Russia.

    Surely almost each of them, like Khlestakov, strives to "play a role at least one inch higher than the one assigned to him." And at the same time "lies with feeling" and "in his eyes is expressed the pleasure he received from this." The general fear experienced by the city officials, on which the action in the comedy rests, does not allow the mayor and his subordinates to see who Khlestako is.
    in fact. Therefore, they believe in his lies.

    All these characters in the comedy create a generalized image of the bureaucracy that ruled Russia in those years. Their truthful portrayal by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol made it possible to tell VG, Belinsky that the bureaucracy is "a corporation of various office thieves and robbers."

    In a satirical form, depicting the abuse of power in a small district town, the author of the narrative denounces and ridicules at once the entire bureaucratic Russia, drowning in the swamp of bribery and embezzlement.

    The image of the mayor Anton Antonovich

    At the very top of the bureaucratic pyramid is the mayor Anton Antonovich. Having risen from the very bottom, he rules the city and does not consider bribery to be a great sin. After all, the state salary, the governor is sure, will not even be enough for bread and salt. So justifying his actions, he robbed the treasury without remorse, ripped off huge bribes from merchants and expensive gifts... With his superiors, Anton Antonovich is respectful and obsequious, with those who are below him in rank - unceremonious and demanding. His dream is to rise to the rank of general and move to the capital.

    "... Thirty years I have been living in the service; not a single merchant or contractor could cheat; I deceived swindlers on swindlers, scoundrels and rogues such that they are ready to rob the whole world, I cheated them. I deceived three governors! .. What governors! ( waved his hand) there is nothing to say about the governors ... "

    The image of the judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin

    The city judge with the eloquent surname Lyapkin-Tyapkin does not lag behind the mayor. Having read a total of six books in his entire life, he is confident in his own education. Serving the law is permissive - in the office of the court, servants dry clothes and raise poultry. Lyapkin-Tyapkin prefers hunting to service and accepts offerings from purebred greyhound puppies.

    "... I've been sitting in the judge's chair for fifteen years now, but when I look into the memorandum - ah! I just wave my hand. Solomon himself will not allow what is true in it and what is not true ..."

    Strawberry official image

    Another city official, ridiculed by Gogol, with the "sweet" surname Strawberry, is supervising charitable institutions where true chaos reigns everywhere. Nobody cares about the sick - no regimen and medical discipline. The appointed doctor, a German by nationality, does not even understand Russian. And Strawberry himself fawns on the authorities and disdainfully treats ordinary people. In the treatment process, the official is of the opinion that whoever of his wards does not die will certainly recover without the drugs he has stolen.

    "... About ten people remained, no more; and the rest all recovered. This is the way it is, this is the order. Since I took over the authorities, it may even seem incredible to you, everyone is recovering like flies. The patient is not will have time to enter the infirmary, as he is already healthy; and not so much medicine as honesty and order ... "

    Luka Lukic

    Khlopov Luka Lukich is in charge of educational institutions the city and its departments for the collapse are no different from the previous ones. Teachers educate their students in disgusting manners, promising to nurture "worthy" replacements for the current generation of thieves. Khlopov, on the other hand, tries to please the bosses, but what and how happens in the affairs entrusted to him does not bother him.

    "... I can’t, I can’t, gentlemen. I, I confess, have been brought up in such a way that, speak to me of one rank, someone higher, I just don’t have a soul and my tongue is stuck in the mud ..."

    Postmaster Shpekin

    In communication services and messages, a complete mess is also going on. Postmaster Shpekin shamelessly opens other people's correspondence in order to keep abreast of any news, letters he liked, he leaves as a keepsake.

    "... I know, I know ... Do not teach this, I do this not so much as a precaution, but more out of curiosity: I love to learn what is new in the world. I will tell you that this is an interesting reading. You will read another letter with pleasure. - this is how different passages are described ... and what edification is ... better than in "Moskovskie vedomosti" !.

    Khlestakov

    But the main charlatan among all this outrage is a petty clerical worker from St. Petersburg Khlestakov, mistakenly taken by the plundered officials for a visiting inspector. On the way, Ivan Aleksandrovich lost a lot and the "title" assigned to him in the city of N was very useful. Khlestakov took advantage of the prevailing misunderstanding to the fullest. And after all the actions of local officials surfaced, a message was received about the arrival of a real auditor, which, most likely, should be understood as an inevitably impending punishment.

    "... I love hospitality, and, I confess, I like it better if I am pleased from pure heart, and not that out of interest ... "

    When considering the behavior, language of officials, their reactions to the arrival of the "inspector" gives a clear idea of ​​the main pronounced features of their characters. It is important to note the attitude of officials towards the mayor. At first glance, in between friendly relations: after all, they are involved in official abuse together. The judge even invites him to his place, and Luka Lukic plays cards with him. But in fact, the attitude of officials to the mayor is completely different, and in order to show this, Gogol introduces remarks "aside" in which officials express their true feelings to the mayor. This two-faced attitude towards the mayor is most clearly seen in the behavior and words of Strawberry. When the governor in action characterizes himself as a zealous and conscientious campaigner, Artemy Filippovich cannot resist saying to himself: “Eka, bum, as he is painting! God gave such a gift! "
    In Act V, when unexpected happiness is celebrated in the mayor's house, Strawberry is one of the first (after the judge) to appear with congratulations. In response to Luka Lukich's remark that “fate itself led the mayor so,” Strawberry obsequiously corrects him: “Not fate, father, fate is a turkey; merits led to that ", and with the words" to the side "completely betrays himself:" Such a pig always crawls into the mouth of happiness. " The same goes a little further. On the one hand, with a remark “to the side”, Strawberry expresses a clearly hostile attitude towards the governor: “he’s getting into generals! What good, maybe he will be a general. After all, his importance, the evil one would not take him, is enough, "and on the other hand, he just kindly addresses him:" Then, Anton Antonovich, don't forget us. "
    So, Strawberry is extremely two-faced in relation to the governor: he fawns in the eyes, toadies, behind the eyes (“to the side”) expresses open contempt, even seasoned with a significant amount of abuse. We note the same duplicity in the case of the judge. He is ready to “regale” the mayor with a dog, sell him a dog or some other dog, he invites him to dinner, the first is to congratulate him on the “extraordinary happiness that has come” and, like Strawberry, asks him to provide support if the general's rank smiles at him : "If something happens: for example, some need for business, do not leave patronage." But he says something completely different “to the side”: “He’ll throw the thing out when he actually becomes a general. For whom the generals should be like a saddle for a cow! " etc.
    In general, the officials' remarks “aside” contain a negative assessment of the mayor, and even the modest, fearful Luka Lukich is not free from this. When the mayor tells Khlestakov about his dislike for cards, Luka Lukich could not resist and confesses “aside”: “I, you scoundrel, repaid a hundred rubles yesterday.”
    Let's pay attention to the lexical side of the language of officials. All these four representatives of bureaucratic Russia are characterized by official-state speech, especially when dealing with the authorities. It is characteristic that with literally the same words they begin their presentation to Khlestakov: “I have the honor to introduce myself,” and end it: “I dare not bother me with my presence any longer.”
    The language of all four officials, in contact with the broad provincial lower classes, is characterized by vernacular phraseology and familiar idiomatic expressions... There are more of them in the speech of the judge: “scolds”, “on a military foot”, “shakes on a mustache”, “a bad thing has been brewed up”, “to regale ... with a little dog”. But the postmaster also uses them: “the Frenchman crap”, “mortally I love”, “short arms”; and Luka Lukich: “made a face”, “got stuck in the mud”, “sold, damned tongue”; and Strawberries: “the cabbage bears”, “let go ... even the soul to repentance”, “stunned”.
    It is noteworthy that in the speech of these officials there are few foreign words: they have to move mainly in the provincial bureaucratic and bourgeois environment.
    Here foreign words from their remarks: nature, Jacobin (Strawberry), ministry (judge), passages, escort (postmaster), edited (Luka Lukich). It should also be noted such details of the speech: a respectable judge is not averse to sometimes inserting an ornate book expression into his speech, which is explained by his erudition: "the tall visitor tasted the bread."
    Strawberry uses definitions of a bureaucratic and clerical nature: a "well-organized" state, society, "ill-intentioned" rules, "reprehensible" behavior. The postmaster enthusiastically conveys excerpts from the letters he left behind: “my life, dear friend, flows ... in empyrean people: there are many young ladies, music is playing, the standard is jumping”.

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    N.V. In the comedy "The Inspector General" Gogol outlined a panorama of the life and customs of provincial Russia in the 1930s. 19th century. The county town N is presented as a kingdom of hypocrisy, deception, pettiness of interests, pride, humiliated human dignity, prejudice and gossip. This is most clearly seen in the appearance of Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, the mayor's family, merchants and philistines. The laws of town life are most clearly represented in the images of officials.

    During the reign of Nikolaev, the bureaucracy was distinguished by lust for power, theft of state property, bribes, arrogance towards "little people". This is how we see officials in the comedy "The Inspector General".

    Governor

    The chief official in the comedy is the mayor - the most intelligent and reasonable of all. He logically reflects on the reasons for the visit of the auditor. We see that from his life experience he is able to put in place any swindler. He does not shun bribes and often borrows money from the state treasury. With his subordinates, he is rude and arrogant, while with higher positions he is respectful and flattering. The main goal his life becomes a general's rank.

    Lyapkin-tyapkin

    The speaking surname Lyapkin-Tyapkin immediately declares his efforts in the service and achievements in life. This is a judge who feels in himself the right to argue with the decisions of the mayor. The people around him think he is a highly educated person only because in his life he has mastered 5 books. Such remarks underline the ignorance of the employees, the negligible level of their education. He neglects his official duties, so there is never order in the court.

    Strawberry

    The head of the Strawberry Hospital is absolutely indifferent to his state affairs... The patients die one after the other, because the doctor hired by Strawberry does not understand a word of Russian. He is intimidated by his reflections on the importance of a hospital for ordinary people: if a person is destined to die, he will die with medications, and if fate has prepared his life, then he will live without pills. Thinking like that, he does not buy drugs at all. Complaining about someone from his companions does not give him any trouble. And this is the first thing he does when he considers Khlestakov to be an auditor.

    Khlopov

    Responsible for education is Luka Lukich Khlopov, an official who fears everything in the world, even louder than an ordinary sounding voice. Responsible for postal delivery Shpekin got used to opening the letters of the townspeople and so track all the secret movements of the city.

    Khlestakov, who does not really belong to the circle of officials, is accidentally involved in the life of provincial officials. He, a metropolitan employee, is so empty, frivolous, superficial that due to this he very easily merges into their society. Gogol shows by this that officials are the same throughout Russia.

    It becomes scary that these are the people who rule Russia and establish the laws. According to V.G. Belinsky, officials are a "corporation of service thieves and robbers."