The theme of disharmony, brought to the point of absurdity due to human intervention in the laws of the development of society, is revealed with brilliant skill and talent by Mikhail Bulgakov in the story "Heart of a Dog". This idea is realized by the writer in an allegorical form: the unpretentious, good-natured dog Sharik turns into an insignificant and aggressive humanoid creature. It is this experiment of Professor Preobrazhensky that is the basis of the story.
Professor Preobrazhensky, no longer a young man, lives alone in a beautiful well-appointed apartment. A brilliant surgeon is engaged in profitable rejuvenation operations. But the professor plans to improve nature itself, he decides to compete with life itself and create a new person by transplanting part of the human brain into a dog. For this experiment, he chooses the street dog Sharik.
The ever-hungry miserable dog Sharik is not stupid in his own way. He assesses the life, customs, characters of Moscow during the NEP with its numerous shops, taverns on Myasnitskaya "with sawdust on the floor, evil clerks who hate dogs", "where they played the harmonica and smelled of sausages." Observing the life of the street, he draws conclusions: "Janitors of all proletarians are the most vile scum"; “The cook comes across different. For example, the late Vlas from Prechistenka. How many lives saved. Seeing Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky, Sharik understands: “He is a man of mental labor ...”, “this one will not kick with his foot.” I
And now the professor performs the main work of his life - a unique operation: he transplants the pituitary gland of a man to the dog Sharik from a man who died a few hours before the operation. This man - Klim Petrovich Chugunkin, twenty-eight years old, sued three times. “Profession - playing the balalaika in taverns. Small in stature, poorly built. The liver is enlarged (alcohol). The cause of death was a stab to the heart in a pub.” As a result of the most complicated operation, an ugly, primitive creature appeared, who completely inherited the "proletarian" essence of his "ancestor". Bulgakov describes his appearance as follows: “A man of small stature and unsympathetic appearance. The hair on his head grew stiff ... The forehead struck with its small height. Almost directly above the black threads of the eyebrows, a thick head brush began. The first words he uttered were swearing, the first distinct word: "bourgeois."
With the advent of this humanoid creature, the life of Professor Preobrazhensky and the inhabitants of his house becomes a living hell. He arranges wild pogroms in the apartment, chases (in his canine nature) after cats, causes a flood ... All the inhabitants of the professor's apartment are completely at a loss, there can be no even talk of receiving patients. “The man at the door looked at the professor with dull eyes and smoked a cigarette, sprinkling ashes on his shirt-front ...” The owner of the house is indignant: “Do not throw cigarette butts on the floor - I ask for the hundredth time. I don't want to hear another swear word. Don't give a damn about the apartment! Stop all conversations with Zina. She complains that you are watching her in the dark. Look!” Sharikov says to him in response: “Something you are painfully oppressing me, dad ... Why don’t you let me live?”
The "unexpectedly appeared ... laboratory" creature demands that he be given the "hereditary" surname Sharikov, and he chooses a name for himself - Polygraph Polygraphovich. Having hardly become a kind of human being, Sharikov becomes impudent right before his eyes. He demands a residence document from the owner of the apartment, confident that the house committee, which protects the "interests of the labor element," will help him in this. In the face of the chairman of the house committee, Shvonder, he immediately finds an ally. It is he, Shvonder, who demands the issuance of the document to Sharikov, arguing that the document is the most important thing in the world: “I cannot allow an undocumented tenant to stay in the house, and even not registered with the police. What if there is a war with imperialist predators?” Soon, Sharikov presents the owner of the apartment with a "paper from Shvonder", according to which he is entitled to a living area of 16 square meters in the professor's apartment.
Shvonder also supplies Sharikov with "scientific" literature and gives him the correspondence between Engels and Kautsky for "study". The humanoid creature does not approve of either author: “They write, they write ... Congress, some Germans ...” He draws one conclusion: “We must share everything.” And he even knows how to do it. “Yes, what is the method here,” Sharikov answers Bormenthal’s question, “it’s not a tricky thing. And then what: one settled in seven rooms, he has forty pairs of trousers, and the other wanders around, looking for food in trash boxes.
Polygraph Poligrafovich quickly finds a place for himself in a society where "who was nothing will become everything." Shvonder arranges for him to be the head of the sub-department for cleaning the city from stray animals. And now he appears before the astonished professor and Bormenthal "in a leather jacket from someone else's shoulder, in worn leather trousers and high English boots." A stench spreads throughout the apartment, to which Sharikov remarks: “Well, well, it smells ... you know: in the specialty. Yesterday, cats were strangled, strangled ... "
We are no longer surprised that he took up the pursuit of stray dogs and cats, despite the fact that yesterday he himself belonged to their number. Consistently "developing", he writes a denunciation-libel about his creator - Professor Preobrazhensky. Sharikov is alien to conscience and morality. He lacks normal human qualities. They are driven only by meanness, hatred, malice...
In the story, the professor managed to reverse the transformation of Sharikov into an animal. But in real life, the balls won, they turned out to be tenacious. That is why we are talking today about such a phenomenon as Sharikovism. At the heart of this social stratum are self-confident, arrogant, convinced of their permissiveness, semi-literate people (if they are worthy of the title of people at all). This new social class became the backbone of the totalitarian state, which encouraged slander, denunciation, just dullness. Militant mediocrity is the basis of Sharikovism. In the story, Sharikov again turns into a dog, but in life he went a long and, as it seemed to him, glorious path, and in the thirties and fifties he continued to poison people, as once, by the nature of his service, stray cats and dogs.
The heart of a dog in union with the human mind is the main threat of our time. That is why the story, written at the beginning of the century, remains relevant today, serving as a warning to future generations.
“Now that our unfortunate Motherland is at the very bottom of the pit of shame and disaster into which the “great social revolution” has driven it, many of us more and more often begin to have the same thought. It is simple: what will happen to us next ... "Mikhail Bulgakov
If the reader looks into the Concise Literary Encyclopedia to get information about Mikhail Bulgakov, then first of all he will know that the future one was born in 1891 "in the family of a professor." There is a small inaccuracy here: Bulgakov's father, an associate professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy, became a professor only in 1907. Nevertheless, for us this is an important fact of the writer's biography. After all, one of the main characters of the story "Heart of a Dog" is the most intelligent person, Professor Preobrazhensky.
The story unfolds before us a real picture of the new Soviet life. It just so happened that the dream of the figures of the Russian revival came true in an ugly form. A "new man" has really appeared in Russia, he received the name "Homo Sovieticus". Writers in their works began to explore this phenomenon. And a number of parodic works appeared in such outstanding satirists as Zoshchenko, Erdman, Kataev.
"Homo Sovieticus" fit perfectly into the new political and social conditions. The Bolshevik regime perfectly reflected his "genotype". Such a person believed in his innocence, was aggressive and intolerant of other people's opinions.
Mikhail Bulgakov could not ignore such a phenomenon and created a whole series of portraits of "homo sovieticus". Almost at the same time, his satirical stories "Fatal Eggs", "Devil's Game" and "Heart of a Dog" were published.
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The work of M. A. Bulgakov is the largest phenomenon of Russian fiction of the 20th century. Its main theme can be considered the theme of “the tragedy of the Russian people”. The writer was a contemporary of all those tragic events that took place in Russia in the first half of our century. And the most frank views of M. A. Bulgakov on the fate of his country are expressed, in my opinion, in the story “Heart of a Dog”. The story is based on a great experiment. The protagonist of the story - Professor Preobrazhensky, who is the type of people closest to Bulgakov, the type of Russian intellectual - conceives a kind of competition with Nature itself. His experiment is fantastic: to create a new person by transplanting part of the human brain into a dog. Moreover, the action of the story takes place on Christmas Eve, and the professor bears the surname Preobrazhensky. And the experiment becomes a parody of Christmas, an anti-creation. But, alas, the scientist realizes all the immorality of violence against the natural course of life too late. To create a new man, the scientist takes the pituitary gland of the "proletarian" - the alcoholic and parasite Klim Chugunkin. And now, as a result of the most complicated operation, an ugly, primitive creature appears, who has completely inherited the “proletarian” essence of his “ancestor”. The first words he uttered were swearing, the first distinct word was “bourgeois”. And then - street expressions: “do not push!”, “scoundrel”, “get off the bandwagon” and so on. A disgusting “man of small stature and unsympathetic appearance” appears. A monstrous homunculus, a man with a dog disposition, whose “base” was a lumpen proletarian, feels himself the master of life; he is arrogant, arrogant, aggressive. The conflict between Professor Preobrazhensky, Bormental and a humanoid being is absolutely inevitable. The life of the professor and the inhabitants of his apartment becomes a living hell. Despite the discontent of the owner of the house, Sharikov lives in his own way, primitive and stupid: during the day he mostly sleeps in the kitchen, messing around, doing all sorts of outrages, confident that “at present everyone has his own right” . Of course, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov is not trying to depict this scientific experiment in itself in his story. The story is based primarily on allegory. It is not only about the scientist's responsibility for his experiment, about the inability to see the consequences of his actions, about the huge difference between evolutionary changes and a revolutionary invasion of life. The story "Heart of a Dog" carries an extremely clear author's view of everything that happens in the country. Everything that happened around was also perceived by M. A. Bulgakov precisely as an experiment - huge in scale and more than dangerous. He saw that in Russia they were also striving to create a new type of person. A man who is proud of his ignorance, low origin, but who received huge rights from the state. It is such a person who is convenient for the new government, because he will put in the dirt those who are independent, smart, high in spirit. M. A. Bulgakov considers the reorganization of Russian life an interference in the natural course of things, the consequences of which could be disastrous. But do those who conceived their experiment realize that it can also hit the “experimenters”, do they understand that the revolution that took place in Russia was not the result of the natural development of society, and therefore can lead to consequences that no one can control ? It is these questions, in my opinion, that M. A. Bulgakov poses in his work. In the story, Professor Preobrazhensky manages to return everything to its place: Sharikov again becomes an ordinary dog. Will we ever be able to correct all those mistakes, the results of which we still experience for ourselves?
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We live in an age of scientific and technological progress. Are we lucky? Certainly yes. Cell phones, email, computers, etc. Live dogs are being replaced by robotic dogs. In Japan, lonely people buy themselves a robot - a friend with whom they can play chess, pour out their souls, and if they get bored, they can turn it off and put it in a corner. On the one hand, it seems to be not bad, a person is not alone, but on the other hand, can a robot replace communication with a living person? What distinguishes a living person from a robot? (Soul) Soul... And what is the soul? The great minds of mankind have struggled with this question. Let's do our part too. What words are attracted to the word "soul" and create its environment? Perhaps it will be not only words, but also sounds, gestures, colors. Don't let your soul be lazy! In order not to crush water in a mortar, the Soul must work Day and night, and day and night!
“... the whole horror is that he has
not canine, but human
heart. And the ugliest of all
that exist in nature.
M. Bulgakov
When the story "Fatal Eggs" was published in 1925, one of the critics said: "Bulgakov wants to become a satirist of our era." Now, on the threshold of the new millennium, we can say that he became one, although he did not intend to. After all, by the nature of his talent, he is a lyricist. And the epoch made him a satirist. M. Bulgakov was disgusting with the bureaucratic forms of governing the country, he could not stand violence either against himself or against other people. The writer saw the main trouble of his "backward country" in lack of culture and ignorance. And he rushed into battle to defend that "reasonable, kind, eternal" that sowed the minds of the Russian intelligentsia. And Bulgakov chose satire as an instrument of struggle. In 1925, the writer completed the story "Heart of a Dog". The content of the story - an incredible fantastic story of the transformation of a dog into a man - was a witty and evil satire on the social reality of the 20s.
The basis of the plot was the fantastic operation of the brilliant scientist Preobrazhensky with all the unexpectedly tragic consequences for him. Having transplanted the seminal glands and the pituitary gland of the brain into a dog for scientific purposes, the professor received homo sapiens , who was later named Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov. The “humanized” stray dog Sharik, always hungry, offended by everyone who is not lazy, revived in himself that person whose brain served as a donor material for the operation. He was a drunkard and a bully Klim Chugunkin, who accidentally died in a drunken brawl. From him, Sharikov inherited both the consciousness of his “proletarian” origin with all the corresponding social mores, and the lack of spirituality that was characteristic of the philistine, uncultured environment of the Chuzhkinkins.
But the professor does not despair, he intends to make a person of high culture and morality out of his ward. He hopes that by kindness and his own example he will be able to influence Sharikov. But it was not there. Polygraph Poligrafovich desperately resists: “Everything is like in a parade ... A napkin is there, a tie is here, yes, “excuse me,” yes, “please,” but really, it’s not.”
Every day Sharikov becomes more and more dangerous. Moreover, he has a patron in the person of the chairman of the house committee, Shvonder. This fighter for social justice reads Engels and writes articles for the newspaper. Shvonder took patronage over Sharikov and educates him, paralyzing the professor's efforts. This unfortunate educator did not teach his ward anything useful, but he managed to hammer in a very tempting thought: who was nothing, he will become a dog. For Sharikov, this is a program for action. In a very short time, he received the documents, and after a week or two he became a co-worker and not an ordinary one, but the head of a subdepartment for cleaning the city of Moscow from stray animals. Meanwhile, his nature, as it was - canine-criminal. You need to see and hear, and with what emotions he talks about his activities in this “field”: “Yesterday they strangled cats, strangled them.” However, Polygraph Poligrafovich is not content with cats alone. He angrily threatens his secretary, who for objective reasons cannot answer his harassment: “You will remember me. Tomorrow I'll arrange for you to make redundancies."
In the story, fortunately, the story of Sharik's two transformations has a happy ending: having returned the dog to its original state, the professor, refreshed and as cheerful as ever, goes about his business, and the "cutest dog" - his own: lies on the rug and indulges in sweet reflections. But in life, to our great regret, the Sharikovs continued to multiply and “choke-choke”, but not cats, but people.
The merit of M. Bulgakov lies in the fact that with the help of laughter he managed to reveal the deep and serious idea of the story: the threatening danger of "Sharikovism" and its potential prospects. After all, Sharikov and his associates are dangerous to society. The ideology and social claims of the "hegemonic" class contain the threat of lawlessness and violence. Of course, M. Bulgakov's story is not only a satire on "Sharikovism" as aggressive ignorance, but also a warning about its likely consequences in public life. Unfortunately, Bulgakov was not heard or did not want to hear. The Sharikovs bred, multiplied, took an active part in the social and political life of the country.
We find examples of this in the events of the 1930s and 1950s, when innocent and unrequited people were persecuted, just as Sharikov used to catch stray cats and dogs in his line of work. The Soviet Sharikovs demonstrated dog loyalty, showing anger and suspicion towards those who were high in spirit and mind. They, like Sharikov Bulgakov, were proud of their low origin, low education, even ignorance, defending themselves with connections, meanness, rudeness and, at every opportunity, trampling people worthy of respect into the mud. These manifestations of sharkovshchina are very tenacious.
Now we are reaping the fruits of this activity. And no one can say how long it will last. In addition, “Sharikovism” has not disappeared as a phenomenon even now, perhaps it has only changed its face.
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From Bulgakov's story, the term "Sharikovshchina" becomes clear. In this case, its name comes from the surname Sharikov and the reader associates with something arrogant, uneducated and uncontrollable.
Sharikov Polygraph Polygraphovich, appeared as a result of a serious scientific experiment, which was carried out by Professor Preobrazhensky and Dr. Bormental.
Two honored figures of medicine performed a heart transplant operation from a human to a dog. The experiment was a success, and the operated dog, named Sharik, survived. In addition, the “experimental” gradually “turned” into a creature resembling a person, that is, Sharikov.
Why, after all, into a being, and not into a person? The author endows him with the ability to walk, talk, reason, but deprives him of the most important thing - the soul. "Dog nature" did not degenerate from Sharikov. He becomes arrogant, deceitful, envious, and also very stupid. All these human vices he got from, who was a drunkard and a petty tyrant during his lifetime.
All attempts by the professor to educate the "ward" end in failure. treats his "savior" with contempt. He craves power, money and demands part of the living space from Preobrazhensky.
"Sharikovshchina" is going on in the professor's apartment. Screams, scandals, broken things, drunken brawls and lustful molestation of servants. The author emphasizes that the Polygraph turns the professor's life into a real daily nightmare. After all, being an intellectual, he never allowed such a thing in his life.
Bulgakov, gives the reader to think about the meaning of life, about the fact that each person is "the blacksmith of his own happiness." Always, whatever the intentions, before doing something, you should once again think about the consequences. It is easy to let "Sharikovshchina" into your life, but it is almost impossible to get it out.
Bulgakov specifically emphasizes that Sharikov listens only to Shvonder. After all, the "proletariat" does not teach kindness, manners and spiritual development. He tries to somehow annoy the professor with the help of the Polygraph.
With the filing, the Polygraph gets a job. Under his direct supervision, the trapping of stray animals should take place. However, it all comes down to the complete extermination of cats on the streets, since Sharikov had great hatred for them.
And in this case, the author shows "Sharikovism". After all, even at work, the Polygraph does not stop thinking only about his own interests. He uses his official position to "get even" with cats, in other words, commits lynching.
Sharikov has no place in society. He is lonely, but does not worry about it. Shvodner keeps him company, which leads to the utopia of both. The proletarian allegedly "drags" a man, pushing him to the "exploits" of hypocrisy, cruelty and lies.
Once, present at the next scandal with the professor, Dr. Bormenthal can not stand it. He decides once and for all to "deal with" the aggressor Sharikov.
Lived partnership rushed to find the Polygraph. Appearing at Preobrazhensky's apartment with the police, Shvonder found himself in a stupid position. On the threshold they were met by a creature that still walked on two legs, but already vaguely resembled Sharikov. After some time, "Sharikovism" forever disappeared into oblivion ...
