The image of the landowner Korobochka in the poem “ Dead Souls»
The third chapter of the poem is devoted to the image of Korobochka, which Gogol classifies as one of those “small landowners who complain about crop failures, losses and keep their heads somewhat to one side, and meanwhile little by little collect money in colorful bags placed in dresser drawers!” (or M. and Korobochka are in some way antipodes: Manilov’s vulgarity is hidden behind high phases, behind discussions about the good of the Motherland, and in Korobochka spiritual poverty appears in its natural form. Korobochka does not pretend to high culture: its entire appearance emphasizes a very unpretentious simplicity. This is emphasized by Gogol in the heroine’s appearance: he points out her shabby and unattractive appearance. This simplicity reveals itself in relationships with people. The main goal of her life is to strengthen her wealth, to constantly accumulate. It is no coincidence that Chichikov sees traces of skillful management on his estate. This economy reveals her inner insignificance. She has no feelings other than the desire to acquire and benefit. The situation with the “dead strangling” is confirmation. Korobochka sells to peasants with the same efficiency with which she sells other items of her household. For her there is no difference between an animate and an inanimate being. There is only one thing that scares her in Chichikov’s proposal: the prospect of missing something, not taking what can be obtained for “dead souls.” Korobochka is not going to give them up to Chichikov on the cheap. Gogol awarded her the epithet “club-headed.”) This money comes from the sale of a wide variety of nat products. households Korobochka understood the benefits of trade and, after much persuasion, agrees to sell such an unusual product as dead souls.
The image of the hoarder Korobochka is already devoid of those “attractive” features that distinguish Manilov. And again we have a type in front of us - “one of those mothers, small landowners who... little by little collect money into colorful bags placed in dresser drawers.” Korobochka's interests are entirely concentrated on farming. “Strong-browed” and “club-headed” Nastasya Petrovna is afraid to sell things short by selling Chichikov is dead souls. The “silent scene” that appears in this chapter is curious. We find similar scenes in almost all chapters showing the conclusion of Chichikov’s deal with another landowner. This is special artistic technique, a kind of temporary stop of action: it allows us to show with particular salience the spiritual emptiness of Pavel Ivanovich and his interlocutors. At the end of the third chapter, Gogol talks about the typicality of the image of Korobochka, the insignificance of the difference between her and another aristocratic lady.
The landowner Korobochka is thrifty, “gains a little money little by little,” lives secluded in her estate, as if in a box, and her homeliness over time develops into hoarding. Narrow-mindedness and stupidity complete the character of the “club-headed” landowner, who is distrustful of everything new in life. The qualities inherent in Korobochka are typical not only among the provincial nobility.
She owns a subsistence farm and trades in everything that is in it: lard, bird feathers, serfs. Everything in her house is done the old fashioned way. She carefully stores her things and saves money, putting them in bags. Everything goes into her business. In the same chapter the author great attention pays attention to Chichikov’s behavior, focusing on the fact that Chichikov behaves simpler and more casually with Korobochka than with Manilov. This phenomenon is typical of Russian reality, and, proving this, the author gives lyrical digression about the transformation of Prometheus into a fly. Korobochka's nature is especially clearly revealed in the buying and selling scene. She is very afraid of selling herself short and even makes an assumption, which she herself is afraid of: “what if the dead will be useful to her in her household?” . It turns out that Korobochka’s stupidity, her “club-headedness” is not such a rare phenomenon.

Nozdryov- the third landowner from whom Chichikov is trying to buy dead souls. This is a dashing 35-year-old “talker, carouser, reckless driver.” N. lies constantly, bullies everyone indiscriminately; he is very passionate, ready to “take a shit” on his best friend without any purpose. All of N.’s behavior is explained by his dominant quality: “nimbleness and liveliness of character,” i.e. unrestrained, bordering on unconsciousness. N. doesn’t think or plan anything; he simply does not know the limits in anything. On the way to Sobakevich, in the tavern, N. intercepts Chichikov and takes him to his estate. There he quarrels to death with Chichikov: he does not agree to play cards on dead souls, and also does not want to buy a stallion of “Arabian blood” and get souls in addition. The next morning, forgetting about all the grievances, N. persuades Chichikov to play checkers with him for dead souls. Caught in cheating, N. orders Chichikov to be beaten, and only the appearance of the police captain calms him down. It is N. who almost destroys Chichikov. Confronted with him at the ball, N. shouts loudly: “he’s trading dead souls!”, which gives rise to a lot of the most incredible rumors. When officials call on N. to sort things out, the hero confirms all the rumors at once, without being embarrassed by their inconsistency. Later he comes to Chichikov and himself talks about all these rumors. Instantly forgetting about the insult he had caused, he sincerely offers to help Chichikov take away the governor’s daughter. The home environment fully reflects N.’s chaotic character. Everything at home is stupid: there are goats in the middle of the dining room, there are no books or papers in the office, etc. We can say that N.’s boundless lies are the other side of the Russian prowess with which N. endowed in abundance. N. is not completely empty, it’s just that his unbridled energy does not find proper use. With N. in the poem begins a series of heroes who have retained something alive in themselves. Therefore, in the “hierarchy” of heroes, he occupies a relatively high – third – place.

, Interior of Nozdryov's house.)

...Two men got out of the chaise. One is blond, tall; the other is a little shorter, dark-haired. The blond one was in a dark blue Hungarian jacket, the dark one was simply in a striped arkhaluk. From a distance another carriage was dragging along, empty, pulled by some long-haired quadruplet with tattered collars and rope harness. The fair-haired one immediately went up the stairs, while the dark-haired one still remained and felt something in the chaise, talking right there with the servant and at the same time waving to the carriage driving behind them. His voice seemed somewhat familiar to Chichikov. While he was looking at him, the blond man had already found the door and opened it. He was a tall man, with a thin face, or what is called shabby, with a red mustache. From his tanned face one could conclude that he knew what smoke was, if not gunpowder, then at least tobacco. He politely bowed to Chichikov, to which the latter responded in kind. In the course of a few minutes they would probably have started talking and getting to know each other well, because the beginning had already been made, and both almost at the same time expressed pleasure that the dust along the road had been completely washed down by yesterday's rain and now the ride was cool and pleasant, as his dark-haired comrade entered, throwing his cap off his head onto the table, bravely ruffling his black thick hair with his hand. He was of average height, a very well-built fellow with full rosy cheeks, teeth white as snow and jet-black sideburns. It was fresh, like blood and milk; his health seemed to be dripping from his face.

The Adventures of Chichikov (Nozdryov). An excerpt from a cartoon based on the plot of Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

- Ba, ba, ba! - he suddenly cried, spreading both arms at the sight of Chichikov. - What destinies?

Chichikov recognized Nozdryov, the same one with whom he had dined with the prosecutor and who with him in a few minutes agreed on such a short leg, that he had already begun to say “you,” although, however, he, for his part, did not give any reason for this.<…>

...Let's say something about Nozdryov himself, who, perhaps, will play not the last role in our poem.

Portrait of Nozdryov. Artist M. Dalkevich

Nozdryov's face is probably already somewhat familiar to the reader. Everyone has encountered many such people. They are called broken fellows, they are reputed even in childhood and at school for being good comrades, and for all that they can be beaten very painfully. In their faces you can always see something open, direct, and daring. They soon get to know each other, and before you know it, they’re already saying “you.” They will make friends, it seems, forever: but it almost always happens that the person who has become friends will fight with them that same evening at a friendly party. They are always talkers, carousers, reckless people, prominent people. Nozdryov at thirty-five was exactly the same as he was at eighteen and twenty: a lover of a walk. Marriage did not change him at all, especially since his wife soon departed for the next world, leaving behind two children who he absolutely did not need. However, the children were looked after by a pretty nanny. He's at home more than a day I couldn't sit still. His sensitive nose heard him several dozen miles away, where there was a fair with all sorts of conventions and balls; in the blink of an eye he was there, arguing and causing chaos at the green table, for, like all of them, he had a passion for cards. At cards, as we have already seen from the first chapter, he did not play completely sinlessly and purely, knowing many different overexposures and other subtleties, and therefore the game very often ended in another game: either they beat him with boots, or they gave him overexposure thick and very good sideburns, so that he sometimes returned home with only one sideburn, and then a rather runny one. But his healthy and full cheeks were so well created and contained so much plant power that his sideburns soon grew back, even better than before. And what’s strangest of all, which can only happen in Rus', is that after some time he already met again with those friends who were pestering him, and he met as if nothing had happened, and he, as they say, was nothing, and they were nothing.

Nozdryov was in some respects a historical person. Not a single meeting he attended was complete without a story. Some kind of story would certainly happen: either the gendarmes would lead him out of the hall by the arm, or his own friends would be forced to push him out. If this doesn’t happen, then something will happen that won’t happen to anyone else: either he’ll be so bad at the buffet that he only laughs, or he’ll lie in the most cruel way, so that he’ll finally become ashamed himself. And he will lie completely without any need: he will suddenly tell that he had a horse with some kind of blue or pink wool, and similar nonsense, so that those listening finally all leave, saying: “Well, brother, it seems you have already begun to pour bullets.” " There are people who have a passion to spoil their neighbor, sometimes for no reason at all. Someone, for example, even a person in rank, with a noble appearance, with a star on his chest, will shake your hand, talk to you about deep subjects that provoke thought, and then, lo and behold, right there, before your eyes, he will spoil you. And he will spoil things like a simple college registrar, and not at all like a man with a star on his chest, talking about subjects that provoke thought, so that you just stand there and marvel, shrugging your shoulders, and nothing more. Nozdryov had the same strange passion. The closer someone got with him, the more likely he was to annoy everyone: he spread a tall tale, the stupidest of which is difficult to invent, upset a wedding, a trade deal, and did not at all consider himself your enemy; on the contrary, if chance brought him to meet you again, he would treat you again in a friendly manner and even say: “You’re such a scoundrel, you’ll never come to see me.” Nozdryov was in many respects a multifaceted man, that is, a man of all trades. At that very moment he invited you to go anywhere, even to the ends of the world, to enter into any enterprise you want, to exchange whatever you have for whatever you want. A gun, a dog, a horse - everything was the subject of exchange, but not at all in order to win: this simply happened from some kind of restless agility and liveliness of character. If at a fair he was lucky enough to attack a simpleton and beat him, he bought a bunch of everything that had previously caught his eye in the shops: collars, smoking candles, scarves for a nanny, a stallion, raisins, a silver washstand, Dutch linen, grain flour, tobacco, pistols, herrings, paintings, sharpening tools, pots, boots, earthenware - as much as there was enough money. However, it rarely happened that it was brought home; almost on the same day it descended to another, happiest player, sometimes even adding his own pipe with a pouch and mouthpiece, and other times the whole foursome with everything: with a carriage and a coachman, so that the owner himself set off in a short frock coat or arkhaluk to look for some a friend to use his carriage. That's what Nozdryov was like! Maybe they will call him a beaten character, they will say that now Nozdryov is no longer there. Alas! those who speak like this will be unjust. Nozdryov will not leave the world for a long time. He is everywhere between us and, perhaps, only wears a different caftan; but people are thoughtlessly undiscerning, and a person in a different caftan seems to them a different person.

Characteristics of Nozdryov's "Dead Souls" according to plan?

1. Nozdryov character in the poem by N.V. Gogol
   The image of N. represents the type of a broken fellow, a reveler, for N. every time ends up in history: either he is taken out of the hall by the gendarmes, or pushed out by his own friends, or he gets drunk in the buffet. N. is also keen on the female sex, he is not averse to taking advantage of strawberries (he is a regular at provincial theaters and a fan of actresses, his children are raised by a pretty nanny). Main passion N. to spoil his neighbor: N. spread tall tales, upset the wedding, but still considered himself a friend of the one to whom he spoiled. N.'s passion is universal and does not depend on rank or weight in society. According to Gogol, like N., a man with a noble appearance, with a star on his chest, craps (And he craps like a simple college registrar). The surname N. is a metonymy of the nose (an absurd double separation occurs: the nostrils from the nose, the nose from the body). N.’s portrait is also built on the metonymy of the face and is consistent with his metonymic surname: he sometimes returned home with only his sideburns, and even then a rather thin one. But his healthy and full cheeks were so well created and contained so much plant power that his sideburns soon grew back, even better than before. Things around N. are identical to his boastful and gambling nature. On the one hand, they illustrate N.'s chaotic nature, on the other, his gigantic claims and passion for exaggeration. Everything in N.’s house is splattered with paint: the men are whitewashing the walls. N. shows Chichikov and Mizhuev the stables, where the stalls are mostly empty; a pond where previously, according to N., there was a fish of such size that two people could hardly pull it out; a kennel with thick-dog and pure-dog dogs, which inspired amazement at the strength of the black meats; the field where N. caught a brown hare by its hind legs. N.’s office reflects his warlike spirit: instead of books, sabers, guns, and Turkish daggers hang on the walls, on one of which was mistakenly carved: Master Savely Sibiryakov (Gogol’s alogism emphasizes the absurdity of N.’s lies). Even the fleas in N.'s house, which bit Chichikov all night, are, like N., fast insects. N.'s energetic, active spirit, in contrast to Manilov's idleness, is nevertheless devoid of internal content, absurd and ultimately just as dead. N. changes everything: guns, dogs, horses, a barrel organ, not for the sake of profit, but for the sake of the process itself. For four days, without leaving the house, N. picks up a marked deck that one could rely on as a faithful friend. N. is a sharper, he drugs Chichikov with Madeira and mountain ash with the smell of fusel, in order to beat him at cards. While playing checkers with Chichikov, N. manages to push the checkers into kings with the cuff of his robe sleeve. If Manilov cares about delicate details, Sobakevich about the whole, then N. neglects both. N.’s food expresses his reckless spirit: some things were burnt, some things were not cooked at all. It is clear that the cook was guided by some kind of inspiration and put in the first thing that came to hand lt; . ..gt; Pepper cabbage, stuffed milk, ham, peas in a word, roll and roll, it would be hot, but some kind of taste would probably come out. N. is impulsive and angry. In a drunken state, N. flogs the landowner Maksimov with rods and is going to beat Chichikov with the help of stalwart servants. N. is capable of praising and scolding at the same time, without mincing words: I bet you’re lying! , because you are a big scammer lt; ...gt; If I were your boss, I would hang you on the first tree (about Chichikov); it’s just a Jewish person (about Sobakevich). N. the initiator of the scandal surrounding dead souls, he was the first to reveal Chichikov’s secret at the governor’s ball, after which in the middle of the cotillion he sat down on the floor and began to grab the dancers’ skirts. N., in a conversation with officials, confirmed that Chichikov was a spy, had been a fiscal officer even at school, that he was printing fake banknotes and that a guard was posted at his house for the night, but Chichikov changed all the banknotes for real ones in one night, that he, N. , helped Chichikov kidnap the governor’s daughter, etc.

An interesting characterization of Nozdryov in the poem “Dead Souls”, which allows N.V. Gogol to show the type of landowners-revelers, who are characterized by debauchery. The characterization of the hero Nozdryov according to plan allows us to draw attention to the most striking features inherent in this character.

First impression

The reader becomes acquainted with the image of Nozdryov back in Chapter 1, when Chichikov meets him at dinner with the prosecutor. You can immediately note his love for “partying” and “losing.” The landowner is described in more detail by N.V. Gogol in the fourth chapter. Here he gives short biography hero: Nozdryov was married, but his wife died, leaving two children, whom the hero does not raise at all, because he is more interested in visiting the houses of other landowners. The children are with a “cute nanny.” At the time of the story, Nozdryov is 35 years old, but he behaves exactly the same as he did at eighteen and twenty years old.

Appearance

Nozdryov's appearance is described positively. He is a well-built fellow with dark hair and sideburns. However, this attractiveness is only external; inside the hero is pitiful and empty. It’s not for nothing that the author says that Nozdryov felt like he belonged among dogs. Here this similarity is visible even in appearance: thick hair, sideburns that grew quickly, a chest covered with hair.

Blood with milk is a striking characteristic of Nozdryov. He is full of health and strength, but all his energy is spent on carousing and various fights.

Environment

Attitudes to surrounding things can show many character traits of the hero. Indifference to economic affairs shows an inability to undertake serious business. Nozdryov is far from being an economic person; on the contrary, he abandons his entire village, almost never appearing in it. That is why the roads there are bad, filled with water and mud, which is difficult to navigate without getting dirty.

But, despite the decline in the village, Nozdryov is a lover of boasting. He even boasts about a mill that doesn't work. He also verbally increases his territory so that guests will think better of him.

The furnishings of the office speak of Nozdryov’s explosive nature. There are no papers or books in the office, there are only guns and daggers that the hero uses in hunting.

The hero's kitchen is never cleaned and is in constant repair.

All these details show the inability to live, the hero seems to be created for brawls and fights.

Lifestyle

Nozdryov’s hobbies are visible from the surrounding objects. He loves hunting, which allows him to fully reveal his character. Card games do the same, in which Nozdryov deceives his opponent in every possible way. Cards are given a lot of attention in the narrative; Nozdryov constantly tells how he “lost it” at cards and lost valuables and money. Cheating during the game shows that he is a skilled liar, which he does in Everyday life. Nozdryov is a lover of exaggeration. He also exaggerates when he says that he drank as many as seventeen bottles of champagne. However, the hero’s love for drinking cannot be denied.

The hero who leads such a riotous lifestyle was already described before N.V. Gogol. The image of Nozdryov is similar to the image of Buyanov, who was described by A. S. Pushkin in the novel “Eugene Onegin”.

People call Nozdryov a historical person because he constantly gets involved in various stories related to fights.

The hero treats other people with contempt and quickly changes his opinion about them. Then he communicates with the person as if he were his own best friend, then I’m ready to fight with him. Chichikov, who was visiting Nozdryov, found himself in the same situation. Nozdryov loved to “spoil” people with whom he was close.

Author's attitude

The work expresses quite clearly author's position in relation to the image of Nozdryov. The writer indicates the typicality of this character: “Nozdryov’s face is already somewhat familiar to the reader. Everyone has met quite a few such people.”

With the help of Nozdryov N.V. Gogol managed to show the type of people who can be called “talkers, revelers, reckless drivers.” The writer saw such people in his contemporary society. Therefore, he says that those who will say that there are no such Nozdrevs anymore will be unfair, because they “will not be removed from the world for a long time.”

This article, which through appearance, material conditions and lifestyle shows the significance of Nozdryov’s image in the work, will help you write the essay “Characteristics of Nozdryov.”

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