Message images of officials in the comedy auditor. Officials of the district city Name of the official Sphere of city life that he leads Information about the state of affairs in this area Characteristics of the hero in the text

In “The Inspector General,” Gogol later recalled, “I decided to collect in one pile everything bad in Russia that I knew then, all the injustices that are done in those places and in those cases where the most justice is required from a person, and for laugh at everything at once.” The author talks about officials in accordance with his plan.

GORODNIICHIY. He’s not stupid, he has “experience” in management, but he “deceived scammers on scammers.” I am convinced that a bribe solves everything. He himself embezzles government funds. He wants to become a general in order to humiliate those below him in position. He doesn’t like people and humiliates them for no reason. Flogged a non-commissioned officer's widow. He fawns over his superiors, offers Khlestakov a bribe, invites him to his house, feeds him well, and is not even against the marriage of a “capital thing” to his daughter.

Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin. He was chosen by the nobility, so he can argue with the mayor. He is considered very educated person. although I read five or six books.

Trustee charitable institutions Strawberries. Gogol called him a subtle rogue. No one is treated in the hospital, and the patients quickly die, because the doctor Gibner cannot even say anything in Russian. If necessary, he can whisper to the authorities about the shortcomings in the work of his colleagues (he talks about the judge, about the superintendent of the schools, Khlestakov).

Khlopov, superintendent of schools. Afraid of everything. How can he observe the development of education without having his own opinion?

Shpekin, postmaster. He sees the meaning of his work in reading other people's letters. It was from them that he learned about the auditor.

All officials who are mentioned in the play "The Inspector General" have personality traits, each of them is a “typical representative” of a provincial city.

All these people are afraid of having their actions checked, so they reacted restlessly to the arrival of an auditor (or rather, the false auditor Khlestakov) from St. Petersburg.

An official from St. Petersburg is no different from them, so he easily begins to play by the rules of the city’s game, “where you jump for three years, you won’t get there.” Khlestakov “takes” his “colleagues” with his dreams, which they take for reality. He talks about how easy it is to visit the capital’s “bosses,” and how soup is brought to him from Paris almost every day. Having collected bribes for the return journey, Khlestakov leaves.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol exposed in a comedy state system, describing people's shortcomings. Embezzlement, lies, hypocrisy, cowardice, and arrogance reign here. There is not a single positive person in The Inspector General. No! Everything is just like that! And that face is LAUGHTER. The laughter of the audience who have been watching the play for centuries and are trying to change themselves and the world around them - for the better.

The main characters are mired in corruption. They don't care about the people and their problems. The images and characteristics of officials in the comedy “The Inspector General” are collective. Absolutely all officials of that time were similar to each other. They have similar thinking and worldview. Gogol managed to ridicule their vices and bring them to human judgment. He sincerely believed that someday they would come better times, and officials will be concerned not only with their own interests, but also with the interests of mere mortals.

Lyapkin-Tyapkin

Judge. A person has a high opinion of himself. Talks to everyone as equals. Even with the Mayor, who is an order of magnitude higher than him in terms of social status. Considers himself very smart. At the same time, I have read at most six books in my entire life.

“Lyapkin-Tyapkin, a judge who has read five or six books, is therefore somewhat freethinking. The hunter is big on guesswork, and therefore gives weight to every word.”

Spit on the work from the big bell tower. Everything about him is a bummer. Big fan of hunting. Briber. He doesn't take money - he takes greyhound puppies.

“I tell everyone openly that I take bribes, but what are bribes for? Greyhound puppies. This is a completely different matter."

He believes that this is quite normal, because he does not rob anyone. A complete mess at work. The court office has turned into a barn, where not pigs but geese walk along the corridor, but this does not change the essence. There is complete confusion in the criminal cases handled by the judge. Sometimes he himself does not understand where, what and where he wrote down.

Strawberries

Trustee of charitable institutions.

“A fat, clumsy and clumsy man, but for all that a sly and a rogue. Very helpful and fussy."

"...A perfect pig in a yarmulke."

In his department there is chaos similar to the office of Lyapkin-Tyapkin. Creepy sneak. He pokes his nose everywhere. He believes that with the help of flattery you can easily get to the top of your career. He fawns and curries favor with everyone except mere mortals. He definitely doesn't care about them. The patients are left to their own devices. They walk along hospital corridors with cigarettes in their mouths. No one is going to treat them. Strawberries work according to the principle:

“A simple man: if he dies, he will die anyway; if he recovers, then he will recover...”

A vile and low person. To achieve his goals, he will do anything: set up his colleagues, betray his loved ones.

Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky

Mayor. Educated. He was able to rise from the bottom and become one of the people. A bribe-taker from birth. I am firmly convinced that:

“Everyone takes bribes, and the higher the rank, the larger the bribe.”

His conscience did not torment him at all that with his help the city treasury was practically empty. He justified theft with low wages. I dreamed of becoming a general. He assumed the role of a general when communicating with his subordinates. He could allow himself to humiliate, yell at, hit a person. An arrogant, daring guy. Quite confident in myself.

Khlopov Luka Lukich

Superintendent of schools. Careless. Like all officials, he doesn’t care about work.

“Here is the caretaker of the local school. I don’t know how the authorities could trust him with such a position: he is worse than a Jacobin, and instills such ill-intentioned rules in the youth that it is even difficult to express.”

Exciting. Cowardly. He becomes numb in front of people above his rank.

Khlestakov Ivan Alexandrovich

“A young man of about twenty-three, thin, thin; somewhat stupid and, as they say, without a king in his head, one of those people who in the office are called empty.”

Dissatisfied with life. At the same time, he makes no attempt to change it in better side. Lives off daddy's handouts. Rake. A visionary who dreams of living beautifully. A small pawn that managed to become king. Gambling to the core. It was he who managed to fool the officials of the city of N, where he was mistaken for an auditor. The guy was no slouch and managed to quickly get used to the role. Having borrowed money, he retreated from the city in time, leaving everyone with their noses.

Shpekin Ivan Kuzmich

Postmaster. Overly curious. He enjoys studying other people's correspondence. There are all possibilities for this. Likewise, time at work flies by faster when opening mail envelopes. The first one learned the truth that Khlestakov is not an auditor, but only posing as one.

In a satirical form, depicting the abuses of the authorities in a small county town, the author of the narrative exposes 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 a great sin. After all, the government salary, the mayor is sure, is not enough even for bread and salt. Thus justifying his actions, he robs the treasury without remorse, extracts huge bribes and expensive gifts from merchants. With his superiors, Anton Antonovich is respectful and obsequious, with those lower in rank he is unceremonious and demanding. His dream is to rise to the rank of general and move to the capital.

"...I have been living in the service for thirty years; not a single merchant or contractor could deceive; I deceived swindlers after swindlers, swindlers and swindlers such that they are ready to rob the whole world, I cheated at the bait. I deceived three governors!.. What governors! ( waved his hand) there is nothing to say about the governors..."

Image of 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. There is a connivance towards serving the law - in the court office, servants dry clothes and raise poultry. Lyapkin-Tyapkin prefers hunting to service and accepts offerings of purebred greyhound puppies.

“...I’ve been sitting on the judge’s chair for fifteen years now, and as soon as I look at the memorandum, ah! I’ll just wave my hand. Solomon himself won’t decide what’s true and what’s not true in it...”

The image of the official Strawberry

Another city official, ridiculed by Gogol, with the “sweet” surname Zemlyanika, is charged with overseeing charitable institutions, where true chaos reigns everywhere. No one cares about the patients - no regime or medical discipline. The appointed doctor, a German by nationality, does not even understand Russian speech. And Strawberry himself fawns over his superiors and is dismissive of the common people. During the treatment process, the official is of the opinion that whoever of his charges does not die will certainly recover even without the medicines he stole.

"...There are ten people left, no more; and the rest have all recovered. This is how it is arranged, this is the order. Ever since I took over - it may even seem incredible to you - everyone is recovering like flies. The patient is not will have time to enter the infirmary, already healthy; and not so much with medicines, but with honesty and order..."

Luka Lukic

Khlopov Luka Lukich is in charge educational institutions The city and its departments are no different from the previous ones in terms of collapse. Teachers instill disgusting manners in their students, promising to raise a “worthy” replacement for the current generation of thieves. Khlopov, on the other hand, tries to please his superiors, but what and how happens in the affairs entrusted to him does not bother him.

“...I can’t, I can’t, gentlemen. I admit, I was brought up in such a way that if someone of a higher rank spoke to me, I simply don’t have a soul and my tongue is stuck in the mud...”

Postmaster Shpekin

Communication and messaging services are also in complete chaos. Postmaster Shpekin shamelessly opens other people's correspondence in order to keep abreast of any news; he leaves the letters he likes as souvenirs.

“...I know, I know... Don’t teach me this, I do this not so much out of precaution, but more out of curiosity: I love to know what’s new in the world. I’ll tell you that this is very interesting reading. You’ll read another letter with pleasure - this is how various passages are described... and what edification... better than in the Moskovskie Vedomosti!

Khlestakov

But the main charlatan among all this disgrace is a small clerical worker from St. Petersburg, Khlestakov, who was mistakenly mistaken by the plundered officials for a visiting auditor. On the way, Ivan Aleksandrovich lost a lot and the “title” assigned to him in the city of N was very opportune. Khlestakov took full advantage of the existing misunderstanding. And after all the actions of local officials came to light, a message was received about the arrival of a real auditor, which, apparently, should be understood as an inevitably impending punishment.

“...I love cordiality, and I confess, I like it more if people please me from the bottom of their hearts, and not just out of interest...”

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol gave in the comedy “The Inspector General” big picture bureaucratic government in Russia in the 30s years XIX century. The comedy also ridiculed the everyday side of 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 mayor, merchants and bourgeois women. But most of all, the life and morals of this city are characterized by its officials.

Describing officials, N.V. Gogol showed massive abuses of power, embezzlement and bribery, arbitrariness and disdain To ordinary people. All these phenomena were characteristic, ingrained features of bureaucracy Nikolaev Russia. This is exactly how 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: he judges more sensibly than his colleagues the reasons for sending an auditor to them. Wise from life and work experience, he “deceived swindlers over swindlers.” The mayor is a convinced bribe-taker: “This is how God himself arranged it, and the Voltairians are in vain speaking against it.” He constantly embezzles government money. The goal of this official’s aspirations is “over time... to become a general.” And in dealing with his subordinates he is rude and despotic. “What, samovar makers, arshinniks...” he addresses them. This person speaks completely differently to his superiors: ingratiatingly, respectfully. Using the example of the mayor, Gogol shows us such typical features Russian officials, such as bribery, veneration of rank.

The group portrait of a typical Nikolaev official is well complemented by Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin. His last name alone speaks volumes about this official’s attitude towards his service. It is precisely such people who profess the principle of “the law is the pole”. Lyapkin-Tyapkin is a representative of the elected government (“elected as a judge by the will of the nobility”). Therefore, he behaves freely even with the mayor, allowing himself to challenge him. Since this person has read 5-6 books in his life, he is considered “freethinking and educated.” This detail emphasizes the ignorance of officials, their low level education.

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

About complete indifference to public service the people on it are spoken in comedy by the image of the trustee of charitable institutions, Strawberry, “a fat man, but a thin rogue.” In the hospital under his jurisdiction, patients are dying like flies, the doctor “doesn’t know a word of Russian.” Strawberry, meanwhile, argues: “A simple man; if he dies, he will die anyway; if he recovers, then he will recover.” As a typical representative of the bureaucracy, he is also characterized by groveling before his superiors and a willingness to denounce his colleagues, which is what he does when Khlestakov arrives.

The superintendent of district schools, Luka Lukich Khlopov, is also in awe of his superiors, a man frightened to death. “If someone of higher rank spoke to me, I simply don’t have a soul, and my tongue is stuck in the mud,” he says. But the postmaster Shpekin did not find himself best activity how to open letters. The limitations of this “simple-minded to the point of naivety” person are 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 of the 30s of the 19th century would not be complete without such bright character comedies like Khlestakov, who is mistaken for a secret auditor. As Gogol writes, this is “one of those people who in the offices are called empty. He speaks and acts without any consideration.” The significance of Khlestakov’s character in the comedy also lies in the fact that he does not belong to the circle of provincial bureaucrats. But, as we see, the St. Petersburg employee in terms of his level of education and moral qualities is no higher than the other characters in the comedy. This speaks to the generalizing nature of the officials depicted in the comedy - they are like this throughout 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 “he lies with feeling” and “the pleasure he received from this is expressed in his eyes.” The general fear experienced by city officials, on which the action in the comedy rests, does not allow the mayor and his subordinates to see who Khlestakov really is. That's why they believe his lies.

All these comedy characters create a generalized image of the bureaucrats who ruled Russia in those years. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s truthful portrayal of them allowed V. G. Belinsky to say that bureaucracy is “a corporation of various official thieves and robbers.”

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol gave a broad picture of bureaucratic and bureaucratic government in Russia in the 30s of the 19th century in the comedy “The Inspector General”. The comedy also ridiculed the everyday side of life of the inhabitants of a small county town: the insignificance of interests, hypocrisy and lies, arrogance and a complete lack of human dignity, superstition and gossip. This is revealed in the images of the landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, the wife and daughter of the mayor, merchants and bourgeois women. But most of all, the life and morals 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 ordinary people. All these phenomena were characteristic, ingrained features of the bureaucracy of Nikolaev Russia. This is exactly how 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: he judges more sensibly than his colleagues the reasons for sending an auditor to them. Wise from life and work experience, he “deceived swindlers over swindlers.” The mayor is a convinced bribe-taker: “This is how God himself arranged it, and the Voltaireans are in vain speaking against it.” He constantly embezzles government money. The goal of this official’s aspirations is “over time... to become a general.” And in dealing with his subordinates he is rude and despotic. “What, samovar makers, arshinniks...” he addresses them. This person speaks completely differently to his superiors: ingratiatingly, respectfully. Using the example of the mayor, Gogol shows us such typical features of Russian bureaucracy as bribery and veneration of rank.

The group portrait of a typical Nikolaev official is well complemented by Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin. His last name alone speaks volumes about this official’s attitude towards his service. It is precisely such people who profess the principle of “the law is the same.” Lyapkin-Tyapkin is a representative of the elected government (“elected as a judge by the will of the nobility”). Therefore, he behaves freely even with the mayor, allowing himself to challenge him. Since this person has read 5-6 books in his life, he is considered “freethinking and educated.” This detail emphasizes 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 doesn’t deal with business at all, and chaos reigns in court.

In the comedy, the complete indifference to public service of the people in it is also indicated by the image of the trustee of charitable institutions, Strawberry, “a fat man, but a subtle rogue.” In the hospital under his jurisdiction, patients are dying like flies, the doctor “doesn’t know a word of Russian.” Strawberry, meanwhile, argues: “A simple man; if he dies, he will die anyway; If he gets well, he’ll get well.” As a typical representative of the bureaucracy, he is also characterized by groveling before his superiors and a willingness to denounce his colleagues, which is what he does when Khlestakov arrives.

The superintendent of district schools, Luka Lukich Khlopov, is also in awe of his superiors, a man frightened to death. “If anyone of a higher rank spoke to me, I simply don’t have a soul, and my tongue is stuck in the mud,” he says. And the postmaster Shpekin could not find a better occupation for himself than opening letters. The limitations of this “simple-minded to the point of naivety” person are 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 of the 30s of the 19th century would not be complete without such a bright comedy character as Khlestakov, who is mistaken for a secret auditor. As Gogol writes, this is “one of those people who in the offices are called empty. He speaks and acts without any consideration.” The significance of Khlestakov’s character in the comedy also lies in the fact that he does not belong to the circle of provincial bureaucrats. But, as we see, the St. Petersburg employee in terms of his level of education and moral qualities is no higher than the other characters in the comedy. This speaks to the generalizing nature of the officials depicted in the comedy - they are like this throughout Russia.

All these comedy characters create a generalized image of the bureaucrats who ruled Russia in those years. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s truthful portrayal of them allowed V. G. Belinsky to say that the bureaucracy is “a corporation of various official thieves and robbers.”