Essay On Gogol Vs Shalamov

It seemed like Gogol and Shalamov were satirized totally different society. For the reason that Gogol, on the one hand, was criticised Tsar’s ranking system. On the other hand, Shalamov was made fun of Communist ideology. Communist idea about sharing the major public goods, was on the opposite side of Tsar’s monarchism. Ranking system was one of the typical symbols of Tsar period. Kovalyov was a low level officer, but he prefered people to call him the “Major”, because it seemed to him “Major” means a higher social status. Unlike Tsar period which people are divided in group based on their social ranking, Communist in the 20th century advocated a equal ranking. Shalamov mocked the communist indulged in making unreachable goal. In Shalamov’s
perspective, the whole society was stuck in the stupid goal and did not even take time thinking about whether their plan was reasonable or not. As the narrator said in the report “The chief engineer doesn’t pay any attention and just demands his cubic meter of soil.”