"Examiner" is a comedy with which every schoolchild is familiar, as well as an adult. According to Gogol, he wanted to put together in this work a bunch of “everything bad” that was happening in Russia at that time. The author wanted to show what injustice prevails in those places in which justice is most needed. The characterization of the characters will help to fully understand the theme of comedy. "The Examiner" is a comedy that showed the true face of bureaucracy in the early 19th century.
The main idea of the “Examiner”. What did the author want to show?
The main idea and idea of the work will help to understand exactly the characteristics of the heroes. The “Examiner” reflects the bureaucracy of the time and each character of the work helps the reader understand what the author wanted to say with this comedy.
It must be said that every action that takes place in a comedy reflects the entire administrative-bureaucratic system of Tsarist Russia. The image of officials in the comedy "The Inspector General" clearly shows readers of the 21st century the true face of the officials of that time. Gogol wanted to show what he had always carefully hidden from society.
The story of the creation of the "Examiner"
It is known that Gogol began working on the play in 1835. There are several versions of what served as the reason for writing The Examiner. However, it is worth noting that the version that the plot of the future comedy was suggested to the author by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is considered traditional. There is confirmation of this, which was found in the memoirs of Vladimir Sollogub. He wrote that Pushkin met Gogol, after which he told him about the incident that occurred in the city of Ustyuzhna: some traveler, an unknown person, robbed all the inhabitants, posing as an official of the ministry.
Pushkin's participation in the creation of comedy
There is another version, also based on the words of Sollogub, in which it is assumed that Pushkin himself was once mistaken for an official when he was in Nizhny Novgorod in order to collect materials about the Pugachev riot.
During the writing of the play, Gogol talked with Pushkin and informed him about how the work on the “Examiner” was going on. It is worth noting that the author several times tried to quit work on comedy, and it was Alexander Sergeyevich who insisted that Gogol finish the work.
The image of officials in the comedy "The Examiner" reflects the bureaucracy of the time. It is worth saying that the history underlying the work reveals the whole essence of the administrative-bureaucratic system of Russia in the early 19th century.
The image of the main characters in the comedy "The Examiner". Officials table
In order to understand the main idea and theme of the work, it is necessary to understand the images of the main characters in comedy. They all reflect the bureaucracy of that time and show the reader what injustice reigned where justice should have been above all.
The main characters of the comedy "Examiner". The table of officials. A brief description of.
| Name of official | Brief description of the official |
Gorodnichy Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky | Head of the county town. This person always takes bribes and does not think that this is wrong. The mayor is sure that “everyone takes bribes, and the higher the rank, the greater the bribe.” Anton Antonovich is not afraid of the auditor, but he is worried that he does not know who will carry out the audit in his city. It should be noted that the city man is a confident, arrogant and dishonest person. For him there are no such concepts as “justice” and “honesty”. He is sure bribes are not a crime. |
Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin | Referee. He considers himself a pretty smart person, because in his life he read about five or six books. It is worth noting that all the criminal cases that he led are not in the best condition: sometimes even he himself can not figure out and understand where the truth is and where not. |
Artemy Filippovich Strawberry | Artemy is the trustee of charitable institutions. I must say that in the hospitals only dirt reigns, as well as a terrible mess. Patients go in dirty clothes, because of which it seems that they have just been at work in a forge, and cooks are preparing in dirty caps. In addition to all the negative aspects, it is necessary to add that patients constantly smoke. Strawberries are sure that you should not burden yourself with finding out the diagnosis of the disease of your patients, because "a person is simple: if he dies, then he will die, if he gets well, then he will get well." From his words we can conclude that Artemy Filippovich absolutely does not care about the health of patients. |
Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin | A postmaster who loves to open and read other people's letters, and sometimes even picks up ones he likes. |
Luka Lukich Khlopov | Luka Lukic is a school superintendent. It is worth noting that he is a very cowardly person. |
The image of officials in the comedy The Examiner shows the injustice that prevailed at that time. In courts, hospitals and other institutions, it would seem that there should be justice and honesty, but the images of officials in Gogol’s work clearly show that in the beginning of the 19th century things were completely different in all of Russia.
The main idea of the comedy "The Examiner". Theme of the work
Gogol said that in his work he wanted to collect all the "stupidity" that was observed at that time. The theme of the play is to ridicule human vices: hypocrisy, fraud, self-interest, etc. The image of officials in the comedy "The Examiner" is a reflection of the true nature of officials. The author of the work wanted to convey that they were unfair, dishonest and stupid. Officialism had absolutely nothing to do with ordinary people.
Comic book of the “Examiner”
The comic nature of the work is that instead of the auditor, whom everyone in the city was afraid of, an ordinary person came and deceived all the officials.
The Examiner is a comedy that shows the true face of Russian officials in the early 19th century. The author wanted to show: they were so unfair, miserable and stupid that they could not distinguish an ordinary person from a real auditor.