Comprehensive analysis of the communicative situation "Chichikov at Korobochka"

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Chichikov at Korobochka

Among the landowners with whom Chichikov met in search of his special goods, there was one woman. Before, Chichikov had not heard anything about the landowner Korobochka and was not going to visit her. Fate itself brought him to an unfamiliar estate, where he met an elderly mistress.

Korobochka's household made a favorable impression on Chichikov. The peasant huts are strong, surrounded by fences, and there are spare carts in the courtyards. It is noticeable that the condition of the houses here is monitored, and leaky boards are promptly replaced with new ones. The old landowner manages her household more successfully than Manilov or Plyushkin. The Korobochka estate cannot be called large. There are eighty souls in it, but the owner knows all her peasants by name. The serfs of Korobochka produce honey, hemp, lard, and bird feathers in abundance, and the hostess sells all this profitably to visiting merchants.

Nastasya Petrovna, although a resourceful housewife, is significantly behind other landowners in mental development. The box was completely immersed in petty farming. The landowner's feeblemindedness is expressed in her lack of spiritual life. She is only interested in hemp prices. The hostess fills the spiritual emptiness with gluttony: the table in front of her is bursting with all kinds of pancakes, pies and flatbreads.

Nastasya Petrovna hesitates for a long time to transfer her dead souls to Chichikov, first of all for fear of making things cheaper, but even more for practical reasons - in case they come in handy for something. In such a turn of thought lies the true essence of the “club-headed” landowner. She manages the household stupidly and short-sightedly. He is in a hurry to get a penny profit, but he doesn’t even know how to manage pennies: he puts them in bags and sends them to the chest of drawers for eternal storage.

Bargaining with Chichikov, Korobochka believed that the item for sale was some kind of extremely popular product. However, the landowner's worldview is narrow and wretched. She is accustomed to existing according to a once and for all established order; everything unusual worries her. Chichikov’s commerce frightened and excited Korobochka. The confused woman expressed her doubts and fears to Chichikov, which caused his indignation. Barely restraining himself, Chichikov patiently explained to the old woman that dead souls are dust, from which there is no benefit.

However, Chichikov should not be angry with Korobochka, the author notes. Sometimes such narrow-minded Korobochki are found even among statesmen, although they look respectable.

"Dead Souls"

Nastasya Petrovna Korobochka is a landowner who leads a relatively secluded lifestyle. The biography of the elderly lady is not filled with bright events. Nastasya Petrovna married a college secretary early and, after many years of a stable marriage, became a widow. The woman runs a household located between the estates and.

In Gogol’s work, Nastasya Petrovna appears at the moment when Chichikov, the main character of the novel, loses his way and is forced to look for a place to stay for the night. Active Nastasya Petrovna, despite her stable income, is concerned about her own financial condition, so she tries to sell guests a variety of products.

A woman’s internal state is reflected in her appearance. The fussy landowner does not pay attention or time to her wardrobe. At the first meeting with Chichikov, the heroine does not strive to make a good impression. Doesn’t waste time on clothes Box and after:

“She was dressed better than yesterday - in a dark dress and no longer in a sleeping cap, but there was still something tied around her neck.”

Nastasya Petrovna’s main activity is her own farm. Despite constant complaints, the landowner skillfully leads the peasants. The woman grows a variety of vegetables and fruits, and the yard is full of poultry. The life of the Korobochka peasants is subject to a strict routine. People either work in the fields or sell goods they produce with their own hands to neighboring estates: honey, flour, meat, feathers.

A caring housewife takes care of the smallest details. Scarecrows are installed in the landowner's fields to scare away crows, and spare carts are hidden in the barns so that the harvest does not stop even in an emergency.

Korobochka's house, like the household, is kept in strict order. The small estate is guarded by a pack of dogs; every breakdown is immediately corrected. However, the petty Korobochka watches over both her own estate and the village. Unlike her neighbors, the landowner takes care of the peasants' huts.

With such a correct and thoughtful approach to housekeeping, Nastasya Petrovna is not distinguished by her mental abilities. The elderly woman is petty, selfish and fixated on thoughts of constant deception from acquaintances and strangers. Such character traits complicate communication with the landowner:

“... one of those mothers, small landowners who cry about crop failures, losses and keep their heads somewhat to one side, and meanwhile they gradually collect money in colorful bags placed in dresser drawers...”

A woman’s favorite pastime, in addition to calculating her own fortune, is fortune telling with cards. At the same time, Korobochka believes in God and claims that because of the cards she met the devil.

After the first communication with Chichikov, the old woman worries about whether she has gone too cheap with the sale of dead souls. Such a thought does not leave the landowner, and she, abandoning her own affairs, goes to the city to find out how much the goods actually cost.

The old woman's questions lead to the spread of rumors, which acquire new incredible details and bring the situation to the point of absurdity.

Author: N.V. Gogol
Work: Dead Souls
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In Gogol's poem "Dead Souls" the way of life and morals of the feudal landowners is very correctly noted and described. Drawing images of landowners: Manilov, Korobochka, Nozdrev, Sobakevich and Plyushkin, the author recreated a generalized picture of the life of serf Russia, where arbitrariness reigned, the economy was in decline, and the individual underwent moral degradation. After writing and publishing the poem, Gogol said: ““Dead Souls” made a lot of noise, a lot of murmur, touched many people with mockery, truth, and caricature, touched the order of things that are before everyone’s eyes every day... it (the poem) settled in everyone is disgusted by my heroes and their insignificance..."

The third chapter of the poem is devoted to a visit to the landowner Korobochka. The author describes Korobochka as follows: “An elderly woman, in some kind of sleeping cap, put on hastily, with a flannel around her neck, one of those mothers, small landowners who cry about crop failures, losses... and meanwhile they gradually collect money in colorful bags... “The heroine’s surname metaphorically expresses the essence of her nature, thrifty, distrustful, fearful, superstitious. Korobochka's name and patronymic - Nastasya Petrovna - resemble a fairy-tale bear and point to the “bear corner” where she lives. On Korobochka’s farm, “turkeys and chickens were endless.” According to folklore tradition, the birds mentioned in connection with Korobochka (turkeys, chickens, magpies, sparrows) symbolize stupidity and senseless fussiness. The things in Korobochka’s house express, on the one hand, her naive idea of lush beauty, and on the other, her hoarding and limited range of home entertainment (fortune telling by cards, darning, embroidery and cooking). All her life she has been hoarding and hoarding; Even when treating Chichikov, he puts only flour dishes on the table, since they are cheaper. Korobochka has no pretensions to high culture, like Manilov, she does not indulge in empty dreams, all her thoughts and desires revolve around the economy. For her, as for all landowners, serfs are a commodity. Therefore, Korobochka does not see the difference between living and dead souls. Korobochka says to Chichikov: “Really, my father, it has never happened before that they sold me dead people.”

Korobochka knows the value of a penny, which is why she is so afraid of selling herself short in the deal with Chichikov. All the latter’s arguments are shattered by her “club-headedness” and greed. She refers to the fact that she wants to wait for the merchants and find out the prices. Korobochka is afraid that Chichikov might deceive her, she wants to wait so as not to “somehow incur a loss,” maybe these souls will come in handy on the farm. After all, “the product is so strange, completely unprecedented” (at first she thinks that Chichikov intends to dig the dead out of the ground). The box is going to slip Chichikov hemp or honey instead of dead souls. She knows the prices for these products.

The image of Korobochka contains a type of person who is dead in his limitations. Even the landowner’s main positive trait, which has become her negative passion—trade efficiency—works to diminish her image. For her, every person is, first of all, a potential buyer. A small house and a large yard The boxes symbolically reflect her inner world - neat, strong; and everywhere there are flies, which in Gogol always accompany a frozen, stopped, internally dead world. Gogol, at the same time, draws our attention to the fact that this landowner runs the household herself, and the peasant huts in her village “showed the contentment of the inhabitants.”

Korobochka decides to sell dead souls out of fear and superstition when Chichikov promised her the devil and almost cursed her. Doubts (has she sold herself too cheap?) force her to go to the city to find out the real price of such a strange product. Nastasya Petrovna is riding in a tarantass that looks like a watermelon. This is another analogue of her image, along with a chest of drawers, a box and bags full of money... Poor in spirit and mind, Korobochka does not see anything that lies outside the boundaries of her estate. Artistic details (the appearance of the estate, houses, interiors, things, etc.) say more about the owner than his actions. The image of Korobochka perfectly symbolizes the social structure, where great importance was attached to maintaining the form, where they tried to kill a living soul for the sake of the impression of well-being.

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