Essays Tagged: "Gogol"
A Whisper of Change. Speaks of Nikolay Gogol's novel, "The Overcoat"
At first glance of Nikolay Gogol's novel The Overcoat, one would only see a shortstory about a poor man wishing to survive in a ... o survive in a cruel world. However, in looking furtherinto the story, deep symbolism can be found. Gogol lived in Russia during the rise of thecommunist party, and was a great dissident of communism. ... icized the other government ofthe world for failing to aid Russia in its quest for a better system. Gogol used his creativemind and his writing abilities to speak out against the evils of the Russian ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Gogol as St. Petersburg. "Diary of a Madman", by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Within Diary of a Madman, Gogol attempts a tale of epic proportions, if only for the schizophrenic mumblings of a character so ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
In 'The Government Inspector', Nikolai Gogol '...resolved to gather into one heap all that was bad in Russia.' Playing the Mayor, illustrate how you would communicate this to an audience.
emingly equal people occurred. The class system in Russia then got out of hand. This is exampled in Gogol's own life, as when he settled in St Petersburg in 1829, he had a certificate attesting his ri ... to 'the rank of the 14th class.'The problem of defining a person's social status stretched back to Gogol's grandfather. Gogol's real name was Ianovskii, but his grandfather had taken the name 'Gogol' ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Style and themes inherited and transformed in Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" compared with Gogol's "Diary of a Madman"
After reading Lu Xun and Gogol's "Diary of a Madman", it is apparent that the writing style and the choice of themes treated ... he writing style and the choice of themes treated in Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" are influenced by Gogol's "Diary of a Madman", but Lu Xun presents the story in a more penetrating and elaborate way t ... re penetrating and elaborate way to accentuate the themes. Before revealing how Lu Xun incorporates Gogol's ideas into his work, we first examine the contacts between Lu Xun and Gogol.Lu Xun's writing ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) PART#1
a long struggle with poverty. 1His first book, "Poor Folks" (1846), though obviously influenced by Gogol, was recognized by the critics as the work of an original genius, and he became a regular cont ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Gogol's Dead Souls: We Like It, But Why?
Gogol?s Dead Souls: We Like it, But Why? When we read a novel, most of us are immediately aware of w ... that we just liked the book.And then one reads a novel such as Dead Souls, by Nikolay Vassilyevitch Gogol. The setting, provincial Russia, is far from exotic; the characters, especially the book?s her ... s.An appreciation of an author?s style is perhaps the easiest of these three levels to develop, and Gogol is no exception. His powers of description are indeed mighty. Gogol looks at the world as thro ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
the sanmesake
hor shows that trains are not just modes of transportation, but a transition between stages of life.Gogol meets his first American girlfriend, Ruth on a train. On the train, Gogol has a special connec ... which slowly developed into his first relationship. After meeting her the first time on the train, Gogol met her again. These repeated meetings symbolize change and his transition into becoming a you ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies