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In “The Inspector General” I decided to put together everything bad in Russia that I knew then...
N.V.Gogol

Lesson objectives: analyze how the district town of Russia in the first half of the 19th century, its inhabitants and officials N.V. Gogol.

Visibility:

1. Portrait of N.V. Gogol
2. Portraits of the mayor, judge, superintendent of schools, postmaster.
3. Presentation “District town in the comedy of N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General"

During the classes.

Vocabulary work.

Explain orally the meaning of the following words: drama, comedy, poster, monologue, dialogue, replica, charitable institution, superintendent of schools, public places, particular, roadside, privately, allocate, garrison, profit, elistrate, pentyukh, labardan, department, ekivok, Jacobin , courier, wait, amber, silkworm, incognito.

Teacher's word.

The topic of our lesson is “County town in the comedy of N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General". Now watch the presentation “County town in the comedy of N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General". (See attachment)

Complete the description of the city with examples from the text.

This is such a gloomy picture of the city. Let's summarize what has been said and write down in a table what this town is like. (The table is filled out during the lesson.)

How do people live in the county town?

Which residents did the writer show in the play?

Checking homework.

Students were given individual homework. Extract quotes from the text that characterize the lives of citizens and city officials. Write quotes on scrapbook paper and hang the paper on the board while talking about the characters.

We draw a conclusion about the situation of the residents of the county town and record it in the table.

Conclusion: city residents have no rights before officials; they can solve their affairs only with the help of bribes to officials. There is no concern on the part of the authorities, they don’t care “if he dies, he dies; If he gets well, he’ll get well.” Even merchants have a hard life, let alone the poor people.

Question to the class: “Who lives well in the city?”

Student reports about officials. The guys make entries in the table, adding to the column about the county town and the column about officials. (Student posts edited by teacher.)

For example, about Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, city ​​governor “The mayor, already old in the service and a very intelligent person in his own way. Although he is a bribe-taker, he behaves very respectably; quite serious... His facial features are rough and hard, like those of anyone who began his service from the lower ranks. The transition from fear to joy, from baseness to arrogance is quite rapid, like in a person with roughly developed inclinations of the soul.” Before us is an experienced man with his life experience and acumen. He is proud of the fact that he used to “deceive swindlers upon swindlers, swindlers and rogues such that they were ready to rob the whole world.” He, like other officials, has his share of sins. He knows about bribes from his subordinates and says: “You are not taking according to your rank.” He himself does not disdain anything: neither cloth, nor wax, nor prunes “that have been lying in a barrel for seven years.” Over the years of service, the mayor learned to cheat masterfully. “And who helped you (the merchant) cheat when you built a bridge and painted wood worth twenty thousand, when there wasn’t even one worth a hundred rubles?” He embezzled the money allocated for the church, and reported to his superiors that the church had burned down. His orders are superficial, in order to again deceive the auditor. “The more it breaks, the more it means the activity of the city governor.”

Artemy Filippovich Strawberry- trustee of charitable institutions. In modern terms, he is responsible for hospitals and shelters. Funds are stolen, he himself admits: “They ordered to give habersup to the sick, but I have such cabbage running through all the corridors that you just have to take care of your nose.” “We don’t use expensive medicines.” His phrase that his patients “are all getting better like flies,” a doctor named Gibner characterizes the state of affairs in the hospital. During Khlestakov’s “audience,” Artemy Filippovich gossips, talking about the affairs and personal lives of officials, and is ready to write a denunciation against everyone. “Would you like me to put it all down on paper?”

Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin- judge. The mayor calls him a smart man because he has read five or six books. The mayor’s remarks about the public places: “In your front hall, where petitioners usually come, the guards have kept domestic geese with little goslings that are scurrying around under your feet.” “You have all sorts of rubbish being dried in your very presence, and right next to the cupboard with papers there is a hunting rag... He (the assessor) smells as if he had just come out of a distillery.” Confession of Ammos Fedorovich “I tell everyone openly that I take bribes, but with what bribes? Greyhound puppies” suggests that a bribe is the norm for city officials, only everyone takes what they need. The judge doesn’t understand anything about his work: “I’ve been sitting on the judge’s chair for fifteen years, but when I look at the memorandum - ah! I’ll just wave my hand. Solomon himself will not decide what is true and what is not true in it.”

Khlopov Luka Lukich- superintendent of schools. The most dangerous position, because learning has never been valued in Russia. “God forbid you serve in the academic field, you are afraid of everything. Everyone gets in the way, everyone wants to show that he is also an intelligent person.” Khlopov was reprimanded for the fact that in an educational institution “freedom-loving thoughts are instilled in young people,” and it was one of the teachers who “made faces” while explaining the material, and another who broke chairs.

Shpekin Ivan Kuzmich- postmaster. The postmaster does not even hide the fact that he opens and reads letters, he does not see this as a crime. He does this “out of curiosity: I love death to find out what’s new in the world. Let me tell you, this is a very interesting read. You will read another letter with pleasure...” He keeps interesting letters for himself. This is not only a pleasant pastime, it is also the fulfillment of the instructions of the mayor, who advises reading the letters. “Listen, Ivan Kuzmich, could you, for our common benefit, print out every letter that arrives at your post office, incoming and outgoing, you know, a little bit and read it: does it contain some kind of report or just correspondence... “He intercepted Khlestakov’s letter to his friend Tryapichkin.

Policemen. In the fourth scene of the first act, we learn that policeman Prokhorov is dead drunk and sleeping at the station. The playbill gives the names of three police officers: Derzhimorda, Svistunov, Pugovitsyn. The very names themselves tell how they restore order in the city. The mayor gives orders regarding Pugovitsyn: “Quarterly Pugovitsyn...he is tall, so let him stand on the bridge for improvement.” Regarding Derzhimorda, he remarks to the private bailiff: “Yes, tell Derzhimorda not to give too much free rein to his fists; For the sake of order, he puts lights under everyone’s eyes: both the right and the wrong.” Next, Derzhimorda stands at the door of the “auditor” Khlestakov and does not let the townspeople in to see him. The town's police are completely subordinate to the mayor and, it seems, act not according to the laws of the state, but at the whim of the main official of the city.

A summary of what has been said about officials.

Name the traits characteristic of officials. Fill in the column of the table about officials.

Can the images of comedy heroes be considered as an accurate reproduction of the characters of people who actually lived?

What role did fiction play in the depiction of the characters in the play?

City officials are “experienced” people, that is, they can easily fool anyone, but why are they so afraid of the auditor?

Why did officials mistake Khlestakov for an auditor?

Nicholas 1 said after the first performance of The Inspector General: “What a play! Everyone got it, and I got it more than anyone else!” In Perm, the police demanded that the performance be stopped, and the mayor in Rostov-on-Don threatened to throw the actors in prison. Gogol wrote about the production of the comedy: “The action produced by it was large and noisy. Everything is against me. Elderly and respectable officials shout that nothing is sacred to me when I dared to speak like that about serving people. The police are against me, the merchants are against me...” Why were the king, officials and merchants so afraid and indignant?

Do you think the play is relevant today?

Homework.

Write a summary at home with elements of the essay “District town in the comedy of N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General". At the conclusion of the presentation, answer the question: “How do you understand the epigraph to the play?”

Lesson summary.

Pay attention to the epigraph to the lesson. For what purpose did the writer show “everything bad in Russia” in the comedy?

LITERATURE LESSON

Lesson topic:

“Officials of City N” (Based on the comedy by N.V., Gogol “The Inspector General”)

8th grade. Program

Textbook “Literature 8th grade” (authors: V. Ya. Korovina, V. P. Zhuravlev, V. I. Korovin. Moscow, “Enlightenment”, 2009)

Toolkit:Phonochrestomathy for the textbook “Literature. 6th grade", Publishing House "Prosveshcheniye" 2009; « Open lesson onliterature: Russian classical literature (Plans, notes, materials): A manual for teachers / Editors and compilers: I. P. Karpov, N. N. Starygina. Moscow: Moscow Lyceum, 2001;

Lesson type: learning new material.

Lesson objectives:

Educational:continue acquaintance with the comedy, reveal the ideological meaning of the work, encouraging students to independently analyze the images of officials in Gogol’s comedy and carefully read the details of Gogol’s work; developing the ability to “hear sadness through laughter” and the desire to fight everything “bad in Russia”;

Developmental: development of creative reading skills, oral coherent speech, thinking;

Educational: to instill a love of words, a love of Russian literature, to cultivate patriotism and independence.

Task : formation of creative, moral qualities.

Visibility and equipment:

comedy texts, interactive board “SMART B oard”, slides with the names of officials, “notes” on which details of the portrait, remarks, qualities, characteristics of officials are written, S. I. Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary, illustrations for the comedy “The Inspector General”.

Method of learning new material: partially search.

During the classes

“In “The Inspector General” I decided to collect

all the bad things in Russia are lumped together,

what I knew then... and behind one

laugh at everything at once...

Through laughter... the reader heard

sadness…"

N.V. Gogol

1. Organizational moment.

2. Communicate the objectives of the lesson.

3. Working with comedy text.

CITY. Collecting all known information about the city through frontal work:

-Where does the comedy take place?

-Why doesn’t this city have a name?

-What do we know about this town?

-What characterization does the mayor and Khlestakov give him?

(Suggested answers. The action takes place in a small district town, to which Gogol does not give a name. The uncertain location of the city, from where “even if you gallop for three years, you won’t reach any state,” gives it a conventionality, allows it to reflect in it all the social vices of Russia, to achieve a great degree of generalization of all vices. That is why Khlestakov says about this town: “What a nasty little town!”

However, we can judge the life of a city by the state of affairs in its institutions.

Tell me, about the life of which establishments in the city of N we learn from the comedy?)

4. OFFICIALS.

a) At the head of each institution are officials. Who are the officials and what is their role in the city?

According to the dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov: “An official is a civil servant who has a rank, an official title.”

Indeed, officials are the culprits of all events taking place in the city, as well as the “culprits” of our lesson today. We can judge the image of the city and the state of affairs in various institutions by the actions, behavior and spiritual qualities of those who manage and organize the life of the city. In Gogol's comedy, we are presented with officials of all the main departments of the county town of the early 19th century. It is interesting that the officials stick together throughout almost the entire development of the comedy. Why do you think? What connects them?

(Answer: COMMON SINS AND FEAR OF THE AUDITOR).

They are separated only in the scenes of offering bribes to Khlestakov. Today we will separate them for the second time.

b) Attached to the board are cards with the names of officials from the comedy (AMMOS FEDOROVICH LYAPKIN-TYAPKIN, ANTON ANTONOVICH SKVOZNIK-DMUKHANOVSKY, ARTEMY FILIPPOVICH ZEMLYANIKA, LUKA LUKICH KHLOPOV, IVAN KUZMICH SPEKIN).

The guys select folded “notes” from the cylinder, on which details of the portrait, replicas, qualities, characteristics of this or that official are written.The task of each reader: find the “owner” of the artistic detail and attach your piece of paper to the board under the name of the official whose image it creates. Then 5 people come to the board to check the correctness of the task, and each of them, connecting the details, builds their own answer-characteristic of the official. All lesson participants are seated in groups in accordance with the title plate (the official’s name), the characteristics of which were compiled using their “notes”.

Here are the traits that made up the characteristics of the heroes:

ANTON ANTONOVICH SKVOZNIK-DMUKHANOVSKY:

-Speaks neither loudly nor quietly, neither more nor less;

- “Have mercy, don’t destroy! Wife, small children: don’t make a person unhappy”;

-merchants “we’ll kill you by standing there, even if you’re in a noose”;

-married, has an adult daughter;

-in the silent scene he stands in the middle in the form of a pillar with outstretched arms and his head thrown back;

-he owns the phrase: “Why are you laughing? You’re laughing at yourself!..”

AMMOS FEDOROVICH LYAPKIN-TYAPKIN:

-“A person who has read five or six books”;

-takes bribes with greyhound puppies, doesn’t believe in God, doesn’t go to church;

- “speaks in a deep voice, with an oblong drawl, wheezing and gulping, like an ancient clock that first hisses and then strikes”;

-judge, collegiate assessor;

-in 1816 he was elected for a three-year term at the will of the nobility and continued his position until this time;

-offers to “slip” money to Khlestakov.

ARTEMY FILIPPOVICH STRAWBERRY:

- “a very fat, clumsy and clumsy man, but for all that a sly and a rogue”;

-trustee of charitable institutions;

- “A simple man: if he dies, he dies; if he recovers, then he will recover”;

- “a perfect pig in a yarmulke.”

LUKA LUKICH KHLOPOV:

He becomes timid in front of the door of Khlestakov’s room, trembles all over and cannot utter a word, and then runs out of the room;

- superintendent of schools;

-has the rank of titular councilor;

- “rotten through with onions”;

-one of his subordinates “cannot do without making a grimace when he ascends to the pulpit.”

IVAN KUZMICH SPEKIN:

- “Just like the department watchman Mikheev, he must also be a scoundrel, drinking bitter drinks”;

- “a simple-minded person to the point of naivety”;

- “does absolutely nothing: everything is in great disrepair, parcels are delayed”;

-in a conversation with Khlestakov he constantly repeats the phrase: “That’s right, sir”;

- postmaster, court councilor.

c) Work in groups. Each group is asked questions to analyze the image of one official.

STRAWBERRY: How and why does Strawberry inform Khlestakov about the unrest in the city? Why doesn't Strawberry inform on the mayor? Why did he introduce himself to the auditor last?

SHPEKIN: How are things going at the post office? Why does he print letters? Why does Gogol in “Notes for Gentlemen Actors” give him the following description: “A simple-minded to the point of naivety”? Prove it.

LYAPKIN-TYAPKIN: Is it possible to characterize him based on the judge’s last name? Which one? How are things going in public places? What do we know about his career?

KHLOPOV: Why isn’t Khlopov given a characterization in “Notes for Gentlemen Actors”? Make “Notes” about his image.

SKVOZNIK-DMUKHANOVSKY: He says: “There is no person who does not have some sins behind him.” What kind of sins are found in the mayor? Why did the mayor believe that Khlestakov was an auditor?

5. After group discussion and preparation of answers to the proposed questions, each group is given the floor.

Other groups can make additions, corrections, and ask questions to those answering.

The result of this work is the conclusion that GOGOL POSSESSED THE GIFT, WITH THE HELP OF ONE DETAIL, TO GIVE A COMPLETE CHARACTERISTIC TO THE HERO OF HIS WORK.

6. Let's return to the epigraph of the lesson.

We read the epigraph, each person gives an answer to the question in writing on a small piece of paper: “What is Gogol sad about?”

After this, the work is posted on the board, and everyone can get acquainted with the point of view of their classmates and conduct self-assessment by comparing their answer with the answers of others.

“Gogol is sad about Russia, its morals and orders. He is bitter because he is unable to change anything in the existing state structure" (Savchenko A.)

“The writer is sad that his native country is in desolation, that bribes, deception, denunciations - all this has become commonplace, not horrifying to anyone” (Veselova M.)

“It seems to me that Gogol is sad that in our country bribe-takers occupy a high position in society, and they do not care about the state, not about the city and its inhabitants, but only about their own well-being” (Artemyeva O.)

“Gogol is sad about Russia. He becomes very painful and bitter at the thought that such a country is disappearing due to the fault of greed, self-interest, stupidity and ignorance of the officials who govern it” (Makarov M.)

7. Summing up the lesson:

Did you complete the tasks set at the beginning of the lesson, what new things did you learn, what did you achieve?

(Reflection:

-what I studied;

-how I worked;

-what have you achieved?)

8. Homework.

Write a miniature essay: “What I want my city to be like.”

When considering the behavior, language of officials, their reaction to the arrival of the “auditor”, it gives a clear idea of ​​the main, pronounced traits of their characters. It is important to note the attitude of officials towards the mayor. At first glance, they have friendly relations: after all, they are involved in official abuses together. The judge even invites him to his place, and Luka Lukic plays cards with him. But in fact, the attitude of officials towards the mayor is completely different, and in order to show this, Gogol introduces remarks “to the side”, in which officials express their true feelings towards the mayor. This two-faced attitude towards the mayor is most clearly visible in the behavior and words of Strawberry. When the mayor in action characterizes himself as a zealous and conscientious servant, Artemy Filippovich cannot resist saying to himself: “What a slacker, what a description! God gave such a gift!”
In Act V, when unexpected happiness is celebrated in the mayor’s house, Strawberry is one of the first (following the judge) to appear with congratulations. In response to Luka Lukich’s remark that “fate itself was leading” the mayor, Strawberry servilely corrects him: “It’s not fate, father, fate is a turkey; merit led to this,” and with the words “to the side” he completely betrays himself: “Happiness always creeps into the mouth of such a pig.” The same goes a little further. On the one hand, with the remark “to the side,” Strawberry expresses a clearly hostile attitude towards the mayor: “He’s already trying to become a general!” What the hell, maybe he will become a general. After all, with his importance, the evil one would not have taken him, that’s enough,” and on the other hand, he immediately ingratiatingly turns to him: “Then, Anton Antonovich, don’t forget us.”
Thus, Strawberry is extremely two-faced in relation to the mayor: he fawns in the eyes, fawns, and behind the eyes (“to the side”) he expresses undisguised contempt, even seasoned with a significant amount of abuse. We note the same duplicity in the judge. He is ready to “treat” the mayor with a little dog, sell him a male or some other dog, he invites him to dinner, is the first to congratulate him on the “extraordinary happiness that has fallen” and, like Strawberry, asks him to provide support if the rank of general smiles on him : “If something happens: for example, some kind of business need, do not leave patronage.” But he says something completely different “to the side”: “He’ll throw something away when he actually becomes a general. That’s who the generalship is like a saddle for a cow!” etc.
In general, the officials’ remarks “to the side” contain a negative assessment of the mayor; even the modest, fearful Luka Lukich is not free from this. When the mayor tells Khlestakov about his dislike for cards, Luka Lukich could not resist and “to the side” admits: “I, the scoundrel, betted a hundred rubles yesterday.”
Let us pay attention to the lexical side of the officials’ language. All these four representatives of bureaucratic Russia are characterized by official-official speech, especially when dealing with their superiors. It is characteristic that they begin their introduction to Khlestakov with literally the same words: “I have the honor to introduce myself,” and end it: “I dare not bother you any longer with my presence.”
The language of all four officials in contact with the broad provincial lower classes is characterized by colloquial phraseology and familiar idiomatic expressions. There are more of them in the judge’s speech: “scolds”, “on a military footing”, “wagging on his mustache”, “a bad deal has been brewed”, “treat... with a little dog”. But the postmaster also uses them: “the Frenchman is crap”, “I love you to death”, “I’m short-handed”; and Luka Lukich: “he cut his face”, “his tongue got stuck in the mud”, “he sold his damn tongue”; and Strawberry: “cabbage carries”, “let go... at least your soul to repentance”, “stunned”.
It is noteworthy that there are few foreign words in the speech of these officials: they have to move mainly in the provincial bureaucratic and middle-class environment.
Here are the foreign words from their remarks: nature, Jacobin (Strawberry), ministeria (judge), passages, estafeta (postmaster), vypontiroval (Luka Lukic). It is worth noting the following details of the speech: the respectable judge is not averse to sometimes inserting a florid bookish expression into his speech, which is explained by his erudition: “the distinguished visitor tasted the bread.”
Strawberry uses definitions of a bureaucratic nature: a “well-ordered” state, society, “unwell-intentioned” rules, “reprehensible” behavior. The postmaster enthusiastically conveys excerpts from the letters he left behind: “my life, dear friend, flows... in the empyrean: there are many young ladies, music is playing, the standard is jumping.”

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The district town in which Khlestakov accidentally found himself was located in the depths of Russia, “even if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.” In the image of this city, all “Russian life is meaningful” (Yu. Mann).

A city is its inhabitants. Gogol portrays, first of all, the main officials. In the play there are six of them and Khlestakov, whom they, with their fear, elevated to the rank of a powerful auditor.

Officials, although they represent one layer (officialdom) of the county society, are all different... Here is Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, the surname comes from the colloquial expression tyap-blunder, that is, somehow. He is a lover of hound hunting. In his court, instead of the emblem of justice, there hangs a hunting arapnik. The postmaster reads other people's letters and keeps the most interesting ones for himself “as a souvenir.” Strawberry informer. It is in charge of “charitable institutions”, that is, hospitals, shelters for orphans and the elderly. The gentle surname only emphasizes the evil trickiness of this character: as soon as he finds himself alone with Khlestakov, he immediately files a secret denunciation against all the officials of the district city.

The superintendent of the schools, Khlopov (from “khlop” - servant, serf) is the most intimidated official, always trembling before the highest ranks. But the main person in the bureaucratic world is the mayor with an intricate and long surname - Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky “a thorough, clear-cut guy.” The mayor is a very intelligent person. Gogol specifically writes about this in his additions to the play. The author feared that the mayor would be mistaken for a stupid person who could be easily deceived. And he is “already old in the service and a very intelligent man in his own way.” “Moreover, he is accustomed to the fact that an intelligent person is one who will not allow himself to be deceived, and he himself constantly deceives others.”

All officials in Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" have their own face, the character of each of them is sharply outlined. And they live in accordance with their characters, habits and position. The “smart” mayor held name days for himself twice a year in order to receive gifts. The “sweet and kind” postmaster, satisfying his curiosity, reads other people’s letters. “Tender” Strawberry, like a family, steals money intended for the purchase of medicine. The officials in Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" live ordinary lives, not even admitting the thought that they are criminals.

The inspector breaks into the mossy, stagnant, but well-established life of the district town, and then it becomes clear that the standards by which he lives are absolute absurdity. The city's rulers are a "gang of robbers." Bribes, in their understanding, are something “ordained by God himself.”

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol introduces the viewer into an outwardly ordinary, and therefore very familiar, world. Upon closer inspection, he turned out to be insane. In all its links it was built on lies. It was not Khlestakov who deceived the mayor - the mayor, who built his entire life on lies and deception, deprived himself of the ability to distinguish truth from lies. The central, main lie on which the entire life of Gogol’s officials is built is the conviction that rank, rank, order, money are the meaning of life and its true values, and the person himself, his dignity, rights and talents, happiness and unhappiness, aspiration goodness and justice have no value.

Rank, in the mayor’s understanding, is the right to legalized robbery. His logic is simple and straightforward - you can take it, but according to your rank.

Admiration for rank overshadowed the officials of man. Bewitched by the magic of the high rank to which they elevated Khlestakov, they immediately forgot their everyday experience and made Khlestakov into someone he never was.

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