quills for His Excellency (Gogol 183). Aside from that‚ the man in the story mentioned that people during his time wore capes with long collars‚ but he wore capes with the short collars. As the days went by‚ the clerk realized how meaningless his job was. Aside from sharpening his employer’s quills‚ he was also tasked with copying the information of the different departments. His simple work made him realized how people treated him without kindness and courtesy (Gogol). People never listened to him
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SOUTH ASIAN WRITING HOME ASSIGNMENT: Diaspora In South Asian Literature- As seen in Meera Syal’s “Anita and Me” Submitted by : 08/EL/47 Urmimala Bhattacharjee The mention of ‘home’ and ‘outside’ is not a specification of India at all‚ but rather
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of the short story deals with supernaturalism. This theme is prevalent throughout the short story and it ultimately serves a greater purpose in “The Nose.” “An extraordinarily strange incident took place in Petersburg on the 25th of March” (Gogol 203). Gogol introduces the readers to the short narrative by recounting a “strange incident” which launches the thought of paranormal activity. One morning Ivan Yakovlevich‚ a barber‚ discovers a nose in the center of a loaf of bread that his
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It is no accident that the name that is attributed to the heroine in a number of Russian novels of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is named after some derivation of the name Elizabeth. Karamzin is the first to revere this name in his work Poor Liza and it is this work that sets off a chain reaction that causes the occurrence of subsequent characters in Russian literature. This character can particularly be found in works such as Pushkin’s Queen of Spades‚ Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit‚ and
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Lu Xun incorporates Gogol’s ideas into his work‚ we first examine the contacts between Lu Xun and Gogol. Lu Xun’s writing career began from his indignation and poignancy toward China’s underdevelopment and her corrupting tradition. Therefore‚ he advocated people to learn from foreign countries. He also read many foreign authors’ works and introduced them to Chinese readers. Among these authors‚ Gogol was the one whom he admired most. Starting from February of 1935‚ he spent almost a year to translate
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. . . is essentially an act by one person that is designed to end the life of another who is suffering” (qtd wisegeek). This is a humane way of dying‚ which is dignified‚ safe‚ and causes the least amount of emotional pain for the family. Ed Gogol‚ Final Options Illinois‚ states‚
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Byron Chicklis Akaky Akakievich and the Tragedy of The Overcoat The hero of “The Overcoat”‚ Akaky Akakievich‚ engenders both hatred and pity from the reader. His meekness and his pathetic life deserve sympathy‚ while his utter detachment from his peers and his singular obsession with a coat are often despised. He is drastically different from any of his peers‚ but there is a certain purity in his way of life which the overcoat defiles. Akaky’s world is completely devoid of any excitement; his
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I also realized how much age has an effect on morals and how maturity and morals are intertwined. Such as Gogol when he was young he fit in with the morals of his age because of the guidance from his parents. When Gogol was a teenager his morals were significantly low‚ drinking‚ smoking weed‚ and going against his family’s wishes changing his name to Nikhil. I researched found this story to be prevalent in almost
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family‚ your friends‚ the ones who you love dearly. And it’s gets hard. When people don’t appreciate you. And the sacrifices you make. Its even harder to push through when the sacrifices you make‚ are not only for yourself‚ but for the ones you love. Gogol was always some what embarrassed of his name‚ of his background and his custom that he inherited from his parents. He wanted to be a typical American like all his friends
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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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