The modernity of the sound of the play by the gogol the auditor. The satirical sound of Gogol’s comedy “The Examiner. The plot, conflict and issues of comedy

About the Examiner, Nikolai Vasilievich himself said this: “In the Examiner, I decided to put together in a pile all the bad things in Russia that I knew then, all the injustices that are being done in those places and in those cases where justice is most required of a person and laugh at everything at one time. ”In the writer's statement there are several keywords and phrases: everything is evil, injustice is there, WHERE MORE THAN IT IS REQUIRED, to laugh at everything.

Where is justice most required of us? Of course, where there is a problem of power. We have already talked about her in the analysis of The Captain's Daughter, but Gogol wants to show a little different. What - read on.

The plot, conflict and issues of comedy

The comedy takes place in a small provincial town. “God is high, far from the king,” is the principle of life in this city, especially for those in power. The mayor and his officials govern the city in accordance with their ideas about management.

And suddenly, like thunder from a clear sky - the news: "The inspector is coming to us." The end of a quiet life and quiet joys in the form of distribution of public funds in their pockets. For fear, they mistake Ivan Khlestakov, a petty official who lost cards and was forced to linger in the town, as the auditor.

They try to put a bribe to Khlestakov, then they warmly accept, drink, feed, Khlestakov takes care of both ladies at once in the Gorodnichy’s house, makes a proposal to his daughter, and leaves. Curious to the indecent, the postmaster opens the letter of Khlestakov, from where everyone will find out what this person really is, they are indignant, and then the news comes that the real auditor has arrived and is waiting for everyone at the hotel.

Silent scene.

Conflict.In drama as a kind of literature, conflict plays a fundamental role. It seems that there is no conflict in the Inspector General: both Khlestakov and officials want the same thing. Therefore, the conflict is imaginary, based on the fear of officials and Khlestakov’s desire to get out of the situation (this is not very correct, but I will explain it later).

The issue of comedy.

The amazing writer Gogol! It is never limited to purely social problems, which in essence is the problem of power, or the problem of serfdom (which, it would seem, should have been in “Dead Souls”). He always looks for society, for the obvious. Just as in “Dead Souls” the problem of moral and spiritual in man, and in the “Examiner” come to the fore socio-psychological and moral issues. Socio-psychological are associated with the image of officials and Khlestakov, moral and psychological - with "Khlestakov", which will be discussed below. And everyone in the comedy is not only "Product" of powerbut also certain socio-psychological type.

Gorodnichny and To about

In "Guidelines for the masters of actors" Gogol clearly described the essence of this honest company, and each one individually. We will follow the author.

The mayor. The smartest of all. He believes that power is given to fulfill his desires and maintain his condition. With his knowledge, embezzlement, grace, indifference, and injustice flourish in the city. All his efforts before the visit of the auditor come down to disguising the situation in the city.

At first he feels fear of Khlestakov, then he quickly realizes that he should not be afraid, because he is the same as him. The city man succeeds in arranging the marriage of his daughter with Khlestakov, he begins to dream of a career in St. Petersburg, of the future generals ...

Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin. Gogol notes that he read 5-6 books, therefore he considers himself an intelligent person (understand: 5-6 books - and an intelligent person!). In court, “geese with geese” walk around him, and a strong spirit of fumes emanates from the assessors. He takes bribes with greyhound puppies and sees nothing special in that. Type - an aggressive fool.

School Caretaker Khlopov. This gentleman in education understands how a pig is in oranges. cannot take any measures to improve the situation, and hires teachers "with a number of more, cheaper cost." Type - a coward.

Trustee of charitable institutions Strawberries. Charitable institutions - hospitals and shelters. It always smells like sour cabbage (the cheapest food), there is no medicine, since Strawberry believes that if destined, the patient will die, and if not, he will recover. Type - scammer, con, cynic.

Postmaster Shpekin. He likes to open and read other people's letters. What for? Just because. And this is enough to make his portrait.

These are the people in power. Their main goal is to preserve everything that is unchanged.

Idea: Gogol’s power is vicious by definition. People who get to it, not only take advantage of the created situation, but also change themselves, acquiring a whole bunch of human vices.   And it’s not power that works for people, but people that exist for power (a whole series of secondary characters, like Poslepkina or a non-commissioned widow who carved herself).

Attention, exam! Material about officials can be used in writings on power (and any, even psychological) over a person. Power corrupts people, along with a sense of superiority over others, a feeling of permissiveness and impunity appears.

Khlestakov and Khlestakovism

Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov is a petty official, a man from the empty. His servant Osip gives him an exhaustive description: he is a spender, a fool, a dummy. He squanders the money that his father sends him, losing them to cards.

And such a comrade finds himself in a strange city without money, but really wants to be fed, watered and not driven out of the hotel. When officials run to the hotel, frightened to death by the auditor, Khlestakov is also scared, but soon finds out that they give him money just like that, at first he promises to return it, and then it comes into taste. And the thought does not flicker in the unfortunate that all this is not just like that!

In the third act, Khlestakov, having bitten and pretty drunk, enters into a rage, and tells successively that he was the head of the department, then the minister, and then the field marshal, and that he had thirty-five thousand couriers, and he wrote all the famous works, and with Pushkin on a friendly foot ("Well, brother Pushkin?"). lying, and he believes in it! The landlord and officials are horrified.

But the cunning Gorodnichy, noting Khlestakov’s interest in his ladies, is not against marrying the examiner to his daughter, and with that Khlestakov, with full pockets of money and a parental blessing, is leaving.

Why did Gogol show us this man? For the sake of "Khlestakovschina"

What it is? This is a socio-psychological phenomenon inherent in many people. Remember which of us did not dream of a better life? So Khlestakov also dreams. Only unlike us, he has no right to this life, because he does not represent anything, does not want to work for this, he wants it as it seems in the scene of lies: I have everything, but I didn’t put any effort into it . This is the quality of a person to claim more, but not to exert efforts on this and is called Khlestakovism.

This is the psychological side of this phenomenon. There is a social one.

The mayor (see above) dreams of generalship, a career in St. Petersburg and so on thanks to what? Yes, the wedding of the daughter and the auditor, a clever bribe, in time screwed flattery. And that’s all. After all, this is also Khlestakovism! Absolutely all officials suffer from it. And if we take into account that we have in our play the middle city of central Russia, and the scene is everywhere, the generalization seems no longer funny, but scary.

So, Gogol not only laughed at everything evil in Russia, but also highlighted one of the most disgusting qualities of man and power, Khlestakovism, which, it turns out, is characteristic, if not all, then of very many representatives of power, and very many people. This is the idea of \u200b\u200bthe play. Yes, this is "all the bad in Russia"!

Attention, exam! The arguments from the “Examiner” can be used in the essay as an illustration to the problems of personality psychology. I mean the following: empty dreams, fantasies, deviations from the truth lead to the inevitable distortion of not only reality, but also a distortion of the individual. The second problem is a lie in a person’s life. When a person lies, he, firstly, does not represent the consequences of deception, and secondly, he risks losing, if not everything, then a lot.

The material was prepared by Karelina Larisa Vladislavovna, teacher of the Russian language of the highest category, honorary worker of general education of the Russian Federation

An essay on the topic “What is the comedy“ The Inspector-General ”relevant in our time?”

Gogol’s comedy The Examiner is unique in its kind because it ridicules those vices and features of society that have long been silent. The satirical comedy describes the everyday life of the county town N, in which a complete mess is going on. Smug officials and spineless people are the main inhabitants of the town.
  The town is controlled by the “positive” hero Anton Antonovich. For this person, there are only two main aspects in life - money and power. It will not be difficult for him to deceive the unfortunate inhabitants in court or to allow a person to die in the hospital building. All these are just trifles that stand in the way of “true” wealth. All the funds that should serve the good of the city, constantly rush into the pocket of the manager.
When Anton Antonovich finds out about the imminent visit of the auditor, he promptly creates a kind of vigorous activity and care for the nice city. He is frightened that they might expose him and deprive him of power, which is why he so diligently creates the appearance of beautification of the city. Many real officials of our country have not gone far from the character of Gogol. Many governors are now spending budget money on their needs and do not repent at all.
  The mayor gives orders to his subordinates regarding other areas of activity in the city, and the reader is horrified to learn that things are very bad there too. Unfortunately, this trend is observed today in many cities of our country.
  All the “important” people of the city are mired in corruption. The doctor will not treat the patient properly if he does not give a bribe. Officials do not see people as people, but a way to enrich their pockets, so life in the town becomes unbearable. This is not uncommon in modern times.
  Gogol described not specific people in his comedy, but those vices and sins that, unfortunately, are inherent in modern society. Therefore, the issues of morality discussed in the work remain relevant to this day.

Malinina Julia

Comedy N.V. Gogol's The Examiner is one of the best plays in the world. Gogol, possessing the gift to generalize his observations and create artistic types in which everyone can find the features of people they know, ridiculed the negative aspects of Russian reality as well as possible. The plot of the “Examiner” is taken from life, the characters, almost everyone reminding someone, or even allowing them to recognize themselves, make comedy modern. The whole play is filled with hints that allow the reader to feel the relevance of comedy.

The purpose of this work isuncover the lifeblood of comedy, prove that, after so many years, it has not lost its urgency and is still interesting.

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on literature

Topic: “The relevance of the problems of N.V. Gogol’s comedy“ The Examiner ”in our time”

Performed:

Malinina Julia Valerevna

9th grade student

Head:

Yakovleva Irina Aleksandrovna

Signature___________________

Murom

2011

I. Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….. 3

II. Introduction.

2.1. The significance of the comedian “The Examiner” ………………………………… 4

2.2. The artistic features of comedy ............................................. 5

2.3. The struggle of the authorities with the satirical orientation of the play ..................... 8

III. The relevance of the problems of the comedy "The Examiner" in our time.

The true sneak can be recognized by the way he looks at his boss. And he does it reverently, with trepidation, attention, while breathing through it once. The sneak will never miss the opportunity to compliment the leader. He praises absolutely everything: the method of leadership, appearance, talented and beautiful children, the purchased car ... At the same time, the sneak is very attentive and, unlike most employees (who are busy with business or themselves), he notices the slightest changes in the appearance of the boss. Flattery and toadiness are perhaps the most intractable disease that creates a lot of problems in corporate culture. Due to the sneaks, the psychological situation in the team deteriorates, the system under which the most capable and hardworking grow, begins to rapidly collapse, and happy leaders completely lose their ability to self-criticize.

Moreover, some of the spellbound subordinates-sneakers often do not even suspect that they are simply being manipulated, while meanwhile flattering characters successfully and without extra delay move up the career ladder.

3.3. Derzhimorda policeman.

The officer of Derzhimord is a rude, tyrannical man. Without any embarrassment, he enters the shops of the merchants as in his pantry. The police thrive drunkenness, rudeness. In prisons, people starve.

His name became a household name for a stupid, executive-zealous and shameless administrator who did not disdain police methods. The extreme level of corruption, arbitrariness, unmotivated aggression, disregard for the law, incompetence - all these are characteristic features of the modern law enforcement system of our country.

Crimes committed by police officers have become the norm. Literally every week, the media report on new killings, robberies, beatings, in which people in uniform become the defendants.

It is no secret that Russian citizens are often more afraid of police officers than bandits. Interior Ministry officers have become a privileged class, in fact, living according to their own laws. The certificate of the police officer actually allows you to not comply with the laws, which leads to impunity, corruption and arbitrariness.

3.4. Artemy FilippovichWild strawberries.

The guardian of charitable institutions is no less colorfulWild strawberries. Artemy Filippovich - “sneak and rogue”, embezzler and scammer. Artemy Zemlyanika serves in a small county town and leads a life “in accordance with his rank and position”, does not at all care about the state interest, while his own well-being is above all for him, mercy is in the hands of a fraudster. The charitable institutions for Strawberries are a feeding trough. In the treatment of patients with his motto: "The closer to nature, the better."He quite calmly says that expensive medicines are not used in the hospital: “A man is simple: if he dies, then he will die; if he recovers, then he will recover. ”No accident thenArtemy Filippovich  stipulate that he has "sick, like flies, recovering." Of course, the reader understands that it is more appropriate to say "they die like flies," that would be closer to the truth. Having learned about the arrival of the examiner, Strawberry is ready to "take cosmetic measures": put clean caps on the patients, inscribe the name of the disease on the tablets on the beds, and reduce the number of sick people so that their excess is not attributed to bad looking or to the doctor’s art.Gogol gives him this characteristic: “A sneaker and a rogue. Very helpful and fussy. ”

Unfortunately, the embezzlement and indifference of Strawberries has a place to be in the modern world. No one has yet estimated the state’s losses from embezzlement. We can only say that they cannot exceed the size of state and local budgets combined.

But this is only in volume, and if direct damage is considered. The indirect damage from embezzlement is much higher: here both malfunctioning, and sometimes not working, state mechanisms, and ruined morality, and ultimately this damage is measured in human lives. A simple example:nerpa nuclear-powered submarine (NPS), on which, during sea trials, a fatal accident occurred in the Sea of \u200b\u200bJapan.  The submarine fire extinguishing system of project 971 K-152 "Nerpa" worked abnormally, as a result of which 20 people were killed, more than forty people were poisoned. howreported in the press, instead of expensive freon, a cheaper poisonous intermediate of its production, tetrachlorethylene, was pumped into the fire extinguishing system.   Who has benefited from this substitution, the press is silent. The Ministry of Defense, of course, is also silent. This example, alas, is not the only and not the most egregious, just very characteristic: nothing sacred exists when it comes to the personal gain of those involved, accomplices in embezzlement and corruption.

3.5. Peter IvanovichDobchinsky and Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky.

The similarity of Dobchinsky and Bobchinskymanifested even in the consonance of their surnames. They have not only the same names - they think and speak almost the same way. Their stories with a huge amount of unnecessary details each time claim that they are just gossips and ordinary people.

From the point of view of psychology, the layman’s position is freedom from responsibility, and, above all, from internal, which would have appeared if he had taken to really resolve certain significant issues. Instead, the layman finds satisfaction in arbitrarily and momentarily choosing what is most beneficial and simple for him.

The main feature of the inhabitants, which unites them all, is an approach that is fundamentally chosen for themselves in life, expressed in the unwillingness to bother with something, take for oneself any position, decide the correctness or incorrectness of some things falling out of the circle of its extremely narrow and immediate personal interests.   However, with all this, the lay people themselves are given the right to everything to judge and speak out. Moreover, they see their right to do so even as a higher priority, in relation to those who are really trying to understand these things. In the word "gossip" itself there is a sense of interlacing false events with their participants for someone’s plans, slander and slanderers, possibly to hide their actions, actions and immorality.

Gossips are usually someone’s tool and are used for some negative purposes. In modern society, rumors do not give up their positions and remain a powerful tool for influencing people

The likelihood of rumors rises in a situation of eventlessness, monotony and boredom. No wonder: gossip is entertainment. Once, before the advent of the media, rumors were the only way to inform people. And in modern society, gossip occurs, as a rule, where there is a lack of information.

3.6. Ammos FedorovichLyapkin-Tyapkin.

Gogol is awarded a fine “speaking” surname by a local judge - “Lyapkin-Tyapkin”. It immediately becomes clear how he conducts business. Ammos Fedorovich is only interested in hunting and, taking bribes with greyhound puppies, considers himself a moral person. His indifference to official affairs and duties is so great that the county court is gradually turning into a kind of farm - right in front of the guard they keep domestic geese.

Indifference is shown in the everyday life of society: in enterprises, in schools, in business, etc. Indifference in relationships arises quite often, and for him in the modern world there are reasons. Indifference is a state of complete indifference, disinterest.   “I’ve been sitting on the judicial chair for fifteen years now, and when I look at the memorandum - ah! I’ll just wave my hand, ”says Ammos Fedorovich. Most of today's people are so absorbed in their everyday difficulties, personal and business problems that they often do not have enough time to devote proper attention, establish and maintain good human relations with others outside of a narrow family or business circle.

Indifference and indifference is manifested in everything and penetrates everywhere. They are the reason for low self-esteem, distrust of people, inability and unwillingness to properly arrange their future. Selfishness, cynicism, arrogance, superficiality are qualities born of indifference.

At the same time, the spiritual culture of people remains at a low level, the line between the noble, truly valuable and vulgar is gradually erased. No wonder they say that indifference is poison for the heart. Just letting this darkness into itself, a person does not notice how it absorbs it completely.

3.7. Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin.

Postmaster Shpekin - not  only a fool, but also a scoundrel. He secretly opens and reads other people's letters, and leaves the most interesting for his collection.Whether he does this out of curiosity or simply out of boredom - it does not matter, but he does not hide it and, moreover, has the permission of the mayor: “... can you, for our common good, any letter that comes to you in the post office, incoming and outgoing, you know, a little print and read that way ... ”

It’s not a secret to anyone that Shpekin’s actions are an encroachment on the secrecy of correspondence, a criminal offense. In the modern world, this is considered a crime, but the Shpekins are becoming more and more. New means of communication appear, and people appear who are ready to read someone else's correspondence. Perhaps because of the lack of personal communication, perhaps just out of idle curiosity, but the fact remains. Electronic mailboxes are hacked, telephone conversations are tapped. As a result, a deeply personal, secret becomes the public domain.

3.8. The lower class.

Such traits of people of the lower class as greed, vulgarity, ignorance, did not go unnoticed by N.V. Gogol. In oppressed offended disenfranchised people such as a locksmith, serf Osip, a tavern-based sex, non-commissioned officer widow, “shewn herself”, there is completely no feeling  self-esteem, the ability to resent their slavish position. These characters are withdrawn in the play in order to emphasize the consequences of the unseemly acts of the ruling officials, to show how those who are lower in position suffer from their arbitrariness.

In a modern, quite aggressive world, maintaining self-esteem is quite difficult. Self-esteem - a personal internal judge of a person. This value is so often inconsistent: it will ascend to heaven, in case of some kind of victory, success, then it will throw itself into a whirlpool of self-flagellation, corroding from the inside with a sticky whip for mistakes.

Low self-esteem is often present in the lives of people who engage in unloved business, live with unloved people.   Internally, they understand this perfectly, but they can’t do anything, quietly hating themselves for the powerlessness that generates anger towards everyone around them. As a result of this, an irresistible craving for money appears, as an indicator of dignity, nobility and significance.

People by all means try to prove to themselves, and especially to those around them, that they are superior to the rest, despite the minor flaws of their personal lives. This is probably the worst. A person who extols public opinion over his own self loses his dignity, that is, loses himself in the modern world.

IV. Conclusion

It took more than a century and a half  since the comedy was released, and its heroes, no, no, and we’ll meet here and there.This means that these are not just the characters in the play, namely the human types that still exist. The work of N.V. Gogol, in my opinion, is not so much comic as it is full of tragedy, because when you read it, you begin to understand: a society in which there are so many leaders who have gone down, corrupted by idleness and impunity, has no future. The relief image of the image of city officials and, above all, the city official, complement the satirical meaning of comedy. The tradition of bribery and deceit of an official is completely natural and inevitable. Both the lower classes and the top of the official class of the city have no other choice but to bribe the auditor with a bribe. The nameless county town becomes a generalization of the whole of Russia, which, under the threat of revision, reveals the true side of the character of the main characters, which is characteristic of any time.

The impact of the comedian "The Examiner" on Russian society was enormous. The surname Khlestakov began to be used as a common name. And any unrestrained phrase-mongering, a lie, unashamed bragging in combination with extreme frivolity began to be called Khlestakovism. Gogol managed to penetrate into the very depths of the Russian national character, having fished out the image of the false inspector Khlestakov from there. According to the author of the immortal comedy, every Russian person is at least a minute made Khlestakov, regardless of their social status, age, education and so on. In my opinion, overcoming Khlestakovism in itself can be considered one of the main ways for each of us to improve ourselves. All modern productions of the comedy "The Examiner" emphasize its relevance to the new time. After composing the play, a lot of time has passed, but everything suggests that this Gogolian work about an ordinary incident in a Russian district town will not leave the stage of Russian theaters for a long time to come. We still have everything that Gogol noticed: embezzlement, bribery, reverence, indifference, ruthlessness, filth, provincial boredom and increasing centralization - the pyramid of power, the vertical - when any passing through the capital rogue is perceived by the almighty big boss. And the image of Khlestakov always corresponds to the spirit of the times.

And yet, more often we meet kind and helpful people who, through their actions, strive to change the world for the better. They do not resemble either Khlestakov or the city man: they have different ideals. Thanks to such strong and dedicated personalities, our country was able to survive in difficult times and maintain its dignity to this day.

Reading the “Examiner”, we are convinced every time that the great work has not lost its revealing power even today, that resolutely each of us has something to learn from Gogol.

List of references.

Fiction

1. N.V. Gogol. Examiner. - M .: State publishing house of children's literature Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, 1952.
2. Yu.V. Mann. N.V. Gogol. Life and creation. - M .: Children's literature, 1985.
3. Yu. V. Mann. Gogol's comedy The Examiner. - M.: Fiction, 1976.

Popular Science

1. N.A. Berdyaev. The philosophy of inequality. - M.: AST, 2006.
2. N.A. Berdyaev. Self-knowledge. - M.: Vagrius, 2004.

Periodicals

1. V.R. Spiridonov. The mythology of a bribe. // Psychological newspaper: We and the World, No. 3, 2000.
2. N.Ya. Chuksin. On corruption // Samizdat, 2009, No. 7.
3. Vasily Buslaev. Nuclear submarine "Nerpa" // Russian newspaper, 11/13/2008, No. 234

Reference editions

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Ushakov Dmitry Nikolaevich. Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language Ushakov.- M .: State. Publishing House of Foreign and nat. words, 2007.

Ushakov Dmitry Nikolaevich. Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language Ushakov. - M .: State. Publishing House of Foreign and nat. words, 2007.

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The relevance of comedy

It’s probably not enough to call the comedy “The Examiner”, the classical play by N.V. Gogol’s pen — it’s eternal “manuscripts don’t burn.” And the point is not only in corrupt officials and corruption, but in human vices themselves, because it is precisely them that Nikolai Vasilievich ridicules in an immortal work.

There is not a single positive character in the play, each character is an accumulation of negative qualities. All officials care about the power and enrichment of their own pockets, the fate of the town does not concern them. Even in front of the fear of revision, the steward only pretends to be a hectic activity. Isn't that a familiar situation? When in the city before the arrival of the authorities begin to create the appearance of urban improvement.

One of the worst representatives of bureaucracy is Artemy Filippovich Strawberry. In hospitals, with his light arm, patients “recover like flies”, and in the case of treatment they rely on Fatum, in the vein: if destined, the patient will recover, and no medicine is needed. By the way, today's medicine works in the same way and likeness - medicines are prescribed on the basis of contracts, and they are treated, in most cases, counting on Russian “maybe”. In addition, the trustee of charitable institutions is a very vile person and is ready to go over corpses for his purpose. He easily informs his fellow officials of the false auditor.

And how often do we have to deal with people, such as judges Lyapkin-Tyapkin, who are not in their place, neglect their duties, and indeed, in fact, empty people.

In general, a representative of the authorities all as one demonstrate immorality, ignorance, greed, deceit, arbitrariness and a sense of profit. But there is a person in the work of a different circle - Khlestakov. This is a stupid, cowardly man "without a king in his head" who "speaks and acts without any consideration." The whole peculiarity of his image is that in his boast and lies he is so sure that he not only makes others believe in a fictional phantasmagoria, but he himself begins to believe in his deception. Alas, today social networks are full of such Khlestakovs, fans of throwing dust in their eyes, we can say that “Khlestakovism” is an epidemic of modernity.

Gogol, as you know, created the comedy “The Examiner” using the idea presented by Pushkin. The prototype of the impostor-auditor was a real historical figure - a certain Pavel Svinin. The difficult and interesting task - to put together and ridicule the Russian mechanism of provincial power - was pursued by the comedy written by Gogol, The Inspector General.

The heroes of the work are typical contemporaries of the author of “Dikanka”: the city mayor Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, who takes large bribes and knows everything about everyone; Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, "administering justice" based on personal gain and "turning the law like a drawbar"; the chronically cowardly caretaker of the Khlopov school, "rotten with a bow," afraid of both the authorities and his subordinates; unscrupulous trustee of charitable institutions of Strawberries (in which people in hospitals died like flies); unscrupulous postmaster Shpekin, opening the envelopes and reading letters "out of curiosity." The whole essence of the activity of the authorities: externally - fussy chores, deeper - bribery, theft showed N.V. Gogol. The “Examiner” also clearly defines what motivates these people to work together. Everything is extremely simple - the mechanism of fear of losing the “place” launched by the mayor. After all, everything is known about everyone. Each "sits on its sixth." It is amazing that Anton Antonovich himself (the mayor), breaking the law more than others, sincerely considers himself a bearer of morality and a believer.

The petty, insignificant official Khlestakov, despised even by his servant Osip, accidentally stayed at a hotel in the provincial city. He follows in Saratov to his father. His career successes are not brilliant. The father, obviously, is going to make his son “suggestion” and “reset” his career. But the twenty-three-year-old blockhead loses pocket money, remaining "on the beans." At this time, notebook gossipers and talkers, landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, spurred by a selfish desire - the first to "figure out" the inspector who arrived in the city, decide, by virtue of their stupidity, that Khlestakov is the auditor.

Gogol shows how they manage to convince even the city official of this. Next begins the circus. Khlestakov, realizing who they take him for, decides on a desperate deceit, introducing himself as an auditor from the capital. The young man is not burdened by either mind, conscience, or decency. He lies with inspiration and selflessness about his high ties and patrons. He asks high officials, starting with a city manager, for a loan. Those willingly give them, not even assuming their return, considering the amount transferred to Khlestakov a banal next bribe. When the young rogue, wooing to the daughter of the mayor, at the same time “knocks wedges” to his wife, the climax of the comedy “The Examiner” is reached. Gogol, however, does not bring the matter to a wedding. The deceiver, obeying the wise servant of Osip, escapes from the soon exposure, grabbing the money.

At the end of the play, the character of Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky “speaks the bitter truth” already through the lips of the author, saying the key phrase that the anecdotal situation described in the comedy is the Russians laughing at themselves. The work ends with the famous scene of “dumbfounding” of the provincial beau monde from the news received about the arrival of a real auditor in the city.

Is the Inspector Modern? Gogol, by the way, has long been familiar to Israeli theatergoers. The real success in the production of comedy came after the localization of the plot and its complete transfer to the soil of this country. Israeli directing proceeds from the fact that the classical playwright Gogol gave the main thing - the instrument for staging the play, but modern city officials, judges, trustees of institutions - are much more sophisticated than the original ones shown by the writer. Therefore, the production is done in modern colloquial language, using slang. Success exceeded all expectations. The internal potential inherent in Gogol’s idea later allowed the author of the Israeli performance to write the script for the whole series, which also turned out to be in demand.