desire. The overcoat leads him to the biblical fall from grace. As a result‚ Akaky is morally corrupted by such material desire. He describes the new overcoat as something that has “two profits: one that it was warm‚ the other that it was good” (Gogol 409). He not only portrays his overcoat as warm‚ which is a common description for a material product‚ he also uses the word “good‚” as if the overcoat has a moral virtue. Akaky makes a mistake in seeing the overcoat as a moral being. To that end‚ he himself
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However‚ upon exploration of his namesake‚ a person finds the name Gogol to be the ideal name for him based on the main character Akaky Akakyvitch in Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat; Gogol Ganguli and Akaky Akakyvitch match perfectly because each display a similar identity crisis that originates from their names. At first‚ it seems that the main character in The Overcoat Akaky Akakyvitch has nothing in common with the bright and handsome Gogol Ganguli of Lahiri’s novel. “One character is set in a Russian
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Both Gogol and Akaky have names that reflect who they are‚ for Gogol when he got his name change he felt like he was a whole new person leaving Gogol behind when he got his first kiss he felt this confidence and he contributed it to the fact that “Gogol had nothing to
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Gogol’s story TheOvercoat. Although Dostoyevsky gave common currency to the term "antihero" in Notes from Underground‚it is Gogol’s Akaky Akakyevich who is the genuine‚ unmitigated‚ and seemingly unredeemable antihero. For Dostoyevsky’s anti-heroic paradoxalist‚ afflicted with hypertrophia of the consciousness‚ is well-read‚ cerebral‚ incurably bookish‚ and talkative. Akaky Akakyevich is hardly aware‚ and almost inarticulate. Gogol’s artistic wager was to try to articulate this inarticulateness. The
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as well as the luxurious lifestyle of the well-to-do. In order to travel to the wealthier clerk‚ Akaky must go on a journey from the “deserted‚ dimly lit streets” to the “lighter and livelier” streets near the clerk’s house‚ then return back to his side of town‚ which had few street lights‚ “glistening snow”‚ and “black silhouettes.”
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Akaky was told that “the best thing would be to address a certain important person‚ so that the important person‚ by writing and referring to the proper quarters‚ could get things done more successfully.” So Akaky decided to find the important person‚ yet “What precisely the post of the important person was‚ and in what it consisted‚ remains unknown. I should
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“The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol The story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol is about Akakii Akakievich and his simple job of copying papers for a department. Akakii led a very simple life and not many people would talk to him or even pay him much attention. However‚ his life changes when he purchases a new overcoat. This overcoat gave Akakii the motivation and confidence he needed to get out into the world. Even before Akakii’s coat was made‚ it still had a positive influence on him. He needed
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Gogol’s Namesake: Identity and Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Author: Judith Caesar Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ beginning with Gogol’s being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the reviewers of the novel mentioned Nikolai Gogol at all in their discussions of the novel‚ except to describe the protagonist Gogol’s loathing of his name‚ or to quote without comment or
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In the late 19th century Russia was in a industrial standstill and its zeitgeist completely skewed compared to the evolution of the rest of the western world. This was mainly due to Russia being so big as well as having a much larger population than the rest of europe and having no government to match the sheer size of the masses. During the end of the 19th century into the 20th‚ the population of Russia was the fastest growing western nation‚ other than the U.S.‚ with their population more than
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The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri A MARINER BOOK Houghton Mifflin Company Boston • New York Copyright ©2003 by Jhumpa Lahiri ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book‚ write to Permissions‚ Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 215 Park Avenue South‚ New York‚ New York 10003. Visit our Web site: www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lahiri‚ Jhumpa. The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri. p. cm. ISBN 0-618-48522-8 (pbk.) ISBN 0-395-92721-8
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