Summary of the lesson on the poem by N. V. Gogol " Dead Souls».
(grade 9)
Subject: “Everyone has his own, but Manilov had nothing”
Target: analyze the image of the landowner Manilov.
Tasks:
identify techniques for describing the character of the landowner, internal logic creating an image;
to teach the ability to determine the principles of typification of social phenomena;
engage students in research work.
Lesson structure:
1 . organizational stage.
2. Checking homework.
3. Theme announcementand lesson objectives.
4. Work in notebooks.
5. Summing up the lesson.
6. Homework.
During the classes
1. Organizational stage.
1. Preparing students for work in the classroom.
2. Mutual greetings between teacher and students.
3. Visual control of readiness for the lesson.
2. Checking homework.
3. Theme announcement and lesson objectives.
One of the features of N. V. Gogol's talent is that "passion to know everything", that "desire to know a person", which makes him look for people of all classes and notice something interesting in everyone.
So, the purpose of today's lesson is to analyze the image of the landowner Manilov.
In the poem “Dead Souls” N.V. Gogol wrote: “It is much easier to portray characters big size: there, just throw paints from all over on the canvas ... and the portrait is ready; but all these gentlemen, of whom there are many in the world, who look very similar to each other, but meanwhile, as you look closely, you will see many of the most elusive features - these gentlemen are terribly difficult for portraits.
Guys, tell me, please, when is the first meeting with Manilov?(The meeting with Manilov takes place already in the first chapter) .
What impression can you make of Manilov before meeting him?
4. Work in notebooks.
Now we will make a table in which we will write down quotes from the text and your observations. We will fill it in during the discussion.
Criterion
Manilov
Appearance
Character
Features of demeanor and speech
Relationships with others
Description of the estate
The result of the transaction
- Appearance of Manilov.
In the description of Manilov's portrait there is a capacious phrase: "... revealing in his face an expression not only sweet, but even cloying ..."
IN portrait characteristic Manilov, the author emphasizes that he is a prominent person, but only "at a glance"; his facial features are not devoid of pleasantness, “but this pleasantness is somehow sugary, “sugar”; manners "ingratiating", smile "tempting", "blond, with blue eyes". The first impression is that Manilov is a kind, pleasant person, then some kind of uncertainty is felt, it is even suggested by the author: "neither this nor that ...".
- The character of Manilov.
With the first phrase, Gogol emphasizes the absence of anything definite in Manilov: “Everyone has his own enthusiasm<...>... in a word, everyone has his own, but Manilov had nothing. The character of this person, as it were, merges with the tone of a gray, boring, lifeless landscape.
- Features of behavior and speech.
In the expression of Manilov's face during conversation, in speech, in the choice of words, in the manners and intonations of the voice, the author notes the same exaggerated sensitivity, sentimentality, and most importantly - mental limitation, lack of content, helplessness of thought. Manilov is trying to conduct an elevated conversation, to understand life facts. He talks a lot, uses nothing meaningful words, cannot complete phrases, instead of them - gestures that replace the statement. All this speaks of the absence of content in Manilov's thought, of his stupidity.
- Relationships with others.
The owner and his wife talked to each other in a sugary-sentimental way: “Open your mouth, darling, I’ll put this piece for you.” Manilov expresses himself extremely elegantly and in a bookish way: “This, right, brought pleasure, May day, name day of the heart ...”. Every person in Manilov is kind, courteous, sweet, pleasant, intelligent, educated, well-read and worthy, but not because it really is, but because Manilov does not understand anything in people. The names of Manilov's children - Alkid and Themistoclus - are clearly given to the pagan ancient past, ancient times before the birth of Christ.
comic scene at the door in the living room characterizes Manilov as too kind, intrusive. Again, the hero feels "sugary sweetness".
- Description of the estate.
The description of the village and the estate characterizes the landowner as lazy and mismanaged: the house was “open to all winds”, the pond in the estate was covered with greenery. The author ironically notes that this is "not a novelty in the English gardens of Russian landowners." The birches here are “small-leaved, thin”, around master's house scattered "gray log huts" and "nowhere between them is a growing tree or some kind of greenery ...". The arbor with a flat green dome and blue columns was called the Temple of Solitary Reflection. Life in the house and in the entire estate seemed to have stopped: the bookmark on page 14 remained in the book, two armchairs were not ready and were covered with matting.
- Outcome of the transaction.
He is confused and helpless before Chichikov's offer to sell dead souls. Gogol conveys this well, describing the facial expressions and gestures of the hero. It is surprising that, not knowing the person (Chichikov), Manilov immediately trusts him and tries in every possible way to serve him, to prove his "heartfelt desire" ... After that, he does not think about his act, but indulges in joyful reflections, which gave the guest a little pleasure. Again we see the spinelessness and stupidity of Manilov, which manifests itself not only in deeds, but also in his thoughts.So, the ability to convince gave Chichikov the first results and he achieved his goal, and without spending any savings.
5. Summing up the lesson.
What is the main thing in Manilow? What detail in the description of the hero is predominant?(The theme of sugar and sweetness, the author, by his comparisons, ensures that the reader has a feeling close to physical disgust.)
- What is hidden behind Manilov's smile? How does the author characterize the hero?(A pleasant Manilov smile for everyone is a sign of deep indifference to everything around; such people are not capable of experiencing anger, sorrow, joy.)
- With the help of what details does Gogol give a comic coloring to the images of his characters?(An integral part of Gogol's portrait drawing is poses, clothes, movements, gestures, facial expressions. With their help, the writer enhances the comic coloring of the images, reveals the true essence of the hero.)
What is distinguishing feature Manilov?(His main psychological trait- the desire to please everyone and always.)
What do the names of Manilov's children emphasize?
What conclusions does the author lead readers to?( Manilov is a calm observer of everything that happens; bribe-takers, thieves, embezzlers of public funds - all the most respectable people for him. Manilov is an indefinite person, there are no living human desires in him. This is a dead soul, a “so-so, neither this nor that” person.)
Conclusion. Instead of a real feeling, Manilov has a “pleasant smile”, sugary courtesy and sensitive phrases; instead of thought - some kind of incoherent, stupid reflections, instead of activity - either empty dreams, or such results of “labor”, as “hills of ash knocked out of a pipe, arranged not without diligence in very beautiful rows.
6. Homework
Work:
Dead Souls
Gogol emphasizes the emptiness and insignificance of the hero, covered with a sugary pleasantness of appearance, details of the furnishings of his estate. M.'s house is open to all winds, thin birch tops are visible everywhere, the pond is completely overgrown with duckweed. But the arbor in the garden of M. is pompously named "The Temple of Solitary Reflection." M.'s office is covered with "blue paint like gray", which indicates the lifelessness of the hero, from whom you will not expect a single living word. Clinging to any topic, M.'s thoughts float away into abstract reflections. To think about real life, and even more so, this hero is not capable of making any decisions. Everything in M.'s life: action, time, meaning - are replaced by exquisite verbal formulas. It was only necessary for Chichikov to clothe his strange request for the sale dead souls V beautiful words, and M. immediately calmed down and agreed. Although earlier this proposal seemed wild to him. The world of M. is the world of a false idyll, the path to death. Not without reason, even Chichikov's path to the lost Manilovka is depicted as a road to nowhere. There is nothing negative in M., but there is nothing positive either. He - empty place, nothing. Therefore, this hero cannot count on transfiguration and rebirth: there is nothing to be reborn in him. And therefore M., along with Korobochka, occupies one of the lowest places in the "hierarchy" of the heroes of the poem.
This man is a bit like Chichikov himself. "God alone could tell what kind of character M. There is a kind of people known by the name: neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan, nor in the village of Selifan. His features were not devoid of pleasantness, but in this pleasantness, it seemed , too much sugar."
M. considers himself well-mannered, educated, noble. But let's take a look at his office. We see heaps of ashes, a dusty book, which has been open for the second year on the 14th page. something is always missing in the house, only part of the furniture is upholstered in silk fabric, and two armchairs are upholstered in matting. M.'s weak will is also emphasized by the fact that the landowner's housekeeping is handled by a drunken clerk.
M. is a dreamer, and his dreams are completely divorced from reality. He dreams of "how good it would be if all of a sudden to lead an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond." G. emphasizes the inactivity and social uselessness of the landowner, but does not deprive him of human qualities. M. is a family man, loves his wife and children, sincerely rejoices at the arrival of a guest, tries in every possible way to please him and make him pleasant.
MANILOV - a character in N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls" (the first volume of 1842 under the qualification, called "The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls"; second, volume 1842-1845). meaningful name M. (from the verb "to beckon", "to lure") is played ironically by Gogol, parodying laziness, fruitless daydreaming, projecting, sentimentality. Possible literary sources the image of M. - characters in the works of N.M. Karamzin, for example, Erast from the story " Poor Lisa». historical prototype, according to Likhachev, could be Tsar Nicholas I, who reveals a relationship with type M. The image of M. dynamically unfolds from the proverb: a person is neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan, nor in the village of Selifan. The things surrounding M. testify to his unsuitability, isolation from life, indifference to reality: the manor's house stands at a southeast, "open to all winds"; M. spends time in a gazebo with the inscription "Temple of Solitary Reflection", where various fantastic projects come to his mind, for example, to build an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond; in the office of M. for two years in a row there is a book with a bookmark on the 14th page; ashes are scattered in caps, a tobacco case, mounds of ash knocked out of a pipe are neatly placed on the table and windows, which is M. M.’s leisure, immersed in tempting thoughts, never leaves for the fields, and meanwhile the peasants get drunk, near the gray huts of the village of M. not a single tree - "only one log"; the economy goes somehow by itself; the housekeeper steals, M.'s servants sleep and hang out. The portrait of M. is built on the principle of quantitative injection of a positive quality (enthusiasm, sympathy, hospitality) to an extreme excess, turning into the opposite, negative quality: "His features were not devoid of pleasantness, but this pleasantness, it seemed, was too much transferred to sugar"; in the face of M. “the expression is not only sweet, but even cloying, similar to the mixture that the dexterous secular doctor sweetened mercilessly ...”; “In the first minute of a conversation with him, you cannot but say: “What a pleasant and a kind person!" You won’t say anything on the next one, but on the third one you will say: “The devil knows what it is!” - and you will move away ... ”The love of M. and his wife is parodic and sentimental. After eight years of marriage, they still give each other candy and tidbits with the words: "Open up, darling, your mouth, I'll put this piece for you." They love surprises: they prepare a “beaded toothpick case” or a knitted wallet as a gift. The refined delicacy and cordiality of M. is expressed in absurd forms of indefatigable delight: “schi, but from pure heart”, “May day, name day of the heart”; officials, according to M., are entirely the most respectable and most amiable people. The image of M. personifies a universal phenomenon - "Manilovism", that is, a tendency to create chimeras, pseudo-philosophizing. M. dreams of a neighbor with whom one could talk “about courtesy, about well treated to follow some kind of science that would stir up the soul in such a way, would give the guy, so to speak, such ...”, philosophize “under the shade of an elm” (Gogol’s parody of the abstractness of German idealism). Generalization, abstractness, indifference to details are the properties of M.'s worldview. In his barren idealism, M. is the antipode of the materialist, practice and Russophile Sobakevich. M. is a Westerner, gravitates toward an enlightened European way of life. M.'s wife studied French in a boarding school, plays the piano, and M.'s children - Themistoclus and Alkid - receive home education; their names, in addition, embody the heroic claims of M. (Alkid is the second name of Hercules; Themistocles is the leader Athenian democracy), however, the alogism of the name Themistoclus (Greek name - Latin ending "yus") ridicules the beginnings of the formation of a semi-European Russian nobility. The effect of Gogol's alogism (ugliness that violates the decent norm of the subject line) emphasizes the decadence of "Manilovism": at dinner, a dandy candlestick with three antique graces is placed on the table at M. and next to it is "a copper invalid, lame ... all in fat"; in the living room - "beautiful furniture, upholstered in smart silk fabric" - and two armchairs upholstered in matting. The estate of M is the first circle of Dante's hell, where Chichikov descends, the first stage of the "deadness" of the soul (M. still retains sympathy for people), which, according to Gogol, consists in the absence of any kind of "enthusiasm". The figure of M. is immersed in a dull atmosphere, sustained in twilight-ash and gray tones, creating a "feeling of the strange ephemerality of the depicted" (V. Markovich). Comparison of M. with the "too smart minister" indicates a ghostly ephemerality and projection of the highest state power, whose typical features are vulgar sweetness and hypocrisy (S. Mashinsky). In the staging of the poem, carried out by the Moscow Art Theater (1932), the role of M. was played by M.N. Kedrov.
Manilov is a character in N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls". The name Manilov (from the verb "beckon", "lure") is played ironically by Gogol. It parodies laziness, fruitless daydreaming, projecting, sentimentality.
(The historical prototype, according to Likhachev D., could be Tsar Nicholas I, who reveals a relationship with the Manilov type.)
Manilov is a sentimental landowner, the first "seller" of dead souls.
The image of Manilov dynamically unfolds from the proverb: a person is neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan, nor in the village of Selifan.
1) The character of the hero is not defined, we cannot catch it.
“God alone could tell what kind of character Manilov had. There is a kind of people known by the name: neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan, nor in the village of Selifan.
Manilov's weak will is also emphasized by the fact that the landowner's housekeeping is handled by a drunken clerk.
Generalization, abstractness, indifference to details are the properties of Manilov's worldview.
In his fruitless idealism, Manilov is the antipode of the materialist, practical and Russophile Sobakevich
Manilov is a dreamer, and his dreams are completely divorced from reality. "How nice it would be if all of a sudden an underground passage was made from the house or a stone bridge built across the pond."
The landowner only engaged in projecting: he dreamed, but these projects are not realized.
At first he seems like a pleasant person, but then it becomes deadly boring with him, because he does not have own opinion and can only smile and say banal cloying phrases.
There are no living desires in Manilov, that force of life that moves a person, makes him perform some actions. In this sense, Manilov is a dead soul, "not this, not that."
He is so typical, gray, uncharacteristic that he does not even have certain inclinations towards anything, there is no name and patronymic.
2) appearance - In Manilov’s face, “the expression is not only sweet, but even cloying, similar to the potion that the clever secular doctor sweetened mercilessly ...”;
Negative quality: “His facial features were not devoid of pleasantness, but this pleasantness seemed to be conveyed too much sugar”;
Manilov himself is an outwardly pleasant person, but this is if you do not communicate with him: there is nothing to talk about with him, he is a boring interlocutor.
3) education - Manilov considers himself well-mannered, educated, noble.
But in Manilov's office for two years in a row there is a book with a bookmark on the 14th page.
He shows "beautiful soul" in everything, liveliness of manners and amiable chirping in conversation.
Clinging to any topic, Manilov's thoughts float away into the distance, into abstract reflections.
The refined delicacy and cordiality of Manilov is expressed in absurd forms of indefatigable delight: “schi, but from a pure heart”, “May day, name day of the heart”; officials, according to Manilov, are entirely the most respectable and most amiable people.
Manilov most often has words in his speech: “dear”, “let me”, and indefinite pronouns and adverbs: some, that, some, that way ...
These words give a shade of uncertainty to everything that Manilov says, create a feeling of semantic futility of speech: Manilov dreams of a neighbor with whom one could talk “about courtesy, about good treatment, follow some kind of science”, “as it would be in the very in fact, it would be good if we could live that way together, under the same roof, or philosophize under the shade of some elm tree.
To think about real life, and even more so to make any decisions, this hero is not capable. Everything in Manilov's life: action, time, meaning - are replaced by exquisite verbal formulas.
Manilov is a Westerner, gravitates towards an enlightened European way of life. Manilov's wife studied French at a boarding school, plays the piano, and Manilov's children, Themistoclus and Alkid, receive home education;
Comparison of Manilov with a "too smart minister" indicates the ghostly ephemeralism and projecting of the highest state power, the typical features of which are vulgar sweetness and hypocrisy.
Claims for sophistication, education, refinement of taste further emphasize the inner simplicity of the inhabitants of the estate. In essence, this is a decoration that covers poverty.
4) qualities: positive - enthusiasm, sympathy (Manilov still retains sympathy for people), hospitality.
Human Manilov is a family man, loves his wife and children, sincerely rejoices at the arrival of a guest, tries in every possible way to please him and make him pleasant.
And he has a sweet relationship with his wife. The love of Manilov and his wife is parodic and sentimental
Manilov was mismanaged, the business "went somehow by itself." The mismanagement of Manilov is revealed to us even on the way to the estate: everything is lifeless, pitiful, petty.
Manilov is impractical - he takes on the bill of sale and does not understand the benefits dead sales shower. He allows the peasants to drink instead of working, his clerk does not know his business and, like the landowner, does not know how and does not want to manage the household.
Manilov is a boring interlocutor, from him "you will not expect any lively or even arrogant word" that, after talking with him, "you will feel mortal boredom."
Manilov is a landowner who is completely indifferent to the fate of the peasants.
Gogol emphasizes the inactivity and social uselessness of the landowner: the economy somehow goes on by itself; the housekeeper steals, M.'s servants sleep and hang out...
5) The things surrounding Manilov testify to his unsuitability, isolation from life, indifference to reality:
Manilov's house is open to all winds, thin tops of birch trees are visible everywhere, the pond is completely overgrown with duckweed, but the arbor in Manilov's garden is pompously called the "Temple of Solitary Reflection".
The master's house stands on the south; at the gray huts of the village of Manilov there is not a single tree - “only one log”;
The seal of grayness, scarcity, uncertainty of color lies on everything that surrounds Manilov: a gray day, gray huts.
In the house of the owners, too, everything is untidy, dull: the wife’s silk hood is pale in color, the walls of the office are painted “some kind of blue paint, like gray” ..., a “feeling of the strange ephemerality of the depicted” is created
The situation always characterizes the hero in relief. In Gogol, this technique is brought to a satirical sharpening: his characters are immersed in the world of things, their appearance is exhausted by things.
The estate of M is the first circle of Dante's hell, where Chichikov descends, the first stage of the "deadness" of the soul (while sympathy for people is still preserved), which, according to Gogol, consists in the absence of any kind of "enthusiasm".
The Manilov estate is the front facade of landlord Russia.
6) Manilov's leisure time is:
Manilov spends time in a gazebo with the inscription "Temple of Solitary Reflection", where he comes up with various fantastic projects (for example, to build an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond); in Manilov's office for two years in a row there is a book with a bookmark on the 14th page; ashes are scattered in caps, a tobacco case, heaps of ash knocked out of a pipe are neatly placed on the table and windows, immersed in tempting reflections, he never leaves for the fields, and meanwhile the peasants get drunk ...
Conclusion.
Gogol emphasizes the emptiness and insignificance of the hero, covered by the sugary pleasantness of appearance, the details of the furnishings of his estate.
There is nothing negative in Manilov, but there is nothing positive either.
He is empty space, nothing.
Therefore, this hero cannot count on transfiguration and rebirth: there is nothing to be reborn in him.
Manilov's world is a world of false idyll, a path to death.
Not without reason, even Chichikov's path to the lost Manilovka is depicted as a road to nowhere.
And therefore, Manilov, along with Korobochka, occupies one of the lowest places in the "hierarchy" of the heroes of the poem.
The image of Manilov personifies a universal phenomenon - "Manilovism", that is, a tendency to create chimeras, pseudo-philosophizing.
Manilov - the hero of the poem by N.V. Gogol, the landowner. He is the first of the landowners whom Chichikov visits. The author plays on the character's surname (from the verb "to beckon", "to lure").
Manilov is characterized by the author as a fruitless dreamer, a man without his own opinion, unable to complete any business. The character of the hero is difficult to capture. The author himself describes it with the help of a proverb: “People are so-so, neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan nor in the village of Selifan”. Manilov's appearance further emphasizes his dullness and the typical nature of his nature: “In his eyes, he was a prominent person; his features were not devoid of pleasantness, but this pleasantness seemed to have been conveyed too much sugar; in his manners and turns there was something ingratiating himself with favors and acquaintances. He smiled enticingly, was blond, with blue eyes. In the first minute of a conversation with him, you cannot but say: "What a pleasant and kind person!" In the next minute you will say nothing, and in the third you will say: "The devil knows what it is!" - and move away if you don’t move away, you will feel mortal boredom.”
The mismanagement of Manilov is shown even when describing his estate. Chichikov opens up lifeless and miserable views. His house is blown by all the winds, dilapidation and desolation are everywhere. Attention is also attracted by the gazebo, which is pompously called the "Temple of Solitary Reflection."
The household of Manilov is run by a drinking clerk, the housekeeper steals, the servants sleep and do nothing: “You can’t say that he was engaged in farming, he never even went to the fields, farming went on somehow by itself.” Manilov constantly comes up with various "projects" that are not only useless, but also hardly feasible: “... looking from the porch at the yard and at the pond, he talked about how good it would be if suddenly an underground passage was built from the house or a stone bridge was built across the pond, on which there would be shops on both sides, and so that in merchants sat there and sold various small goods necessary for the peasants.
Manilov - an adherent of everything Western, emphasizes his high education. He even named his children strange names- Themistoclus and Alkid. He is happily married, but his relationship with his wife looks feigned and parodic-sentimental.
Manilov is not looking for profit in a deal with Chichikov. He gives the souls of the peasants for free and takes over the bill of sale.
Behind the outward pleasantness of Manilov lies insignificance, dullness and emptiness.
The poem "Dead Souls" was written by Gogol back in 1842. In the work, the author pays great attention to the description of noblemen and landowners. One of the brightest bright characters is Manilov.
Gogol was able to interestingly correlate the character and surname of the landowner. The surname of the hero can be called speaking, since the landowner constantly dreams and beckons him everywhere. The first acquaintance with Manilov takes place at a party at the governor of the city N. The author presents him as "a very courteous and courteous landowner."
Characteristics of the hero
Manilov appears blue-eyed blond in middle age. He is not stupid enough, pleasant, but appearance its sugary enough, "the pleasantness was too transferred to sugar". There are no outstanding features of this landowner. Gogol emphasized that there were "many of them in the world" and claimed that he was "neither this nor that." Perhaps that is why the character seeks to highlight his children and gives them unusual names - Themistoclus alone is worth something! Yes, and Alkid, his other son, also has an unusual name that distinguishes him from a number of others.
Manilov belonged to the class of wealthy landowners. In the village where Manilov lived, there were about two hundred houses, i.e. over two hundred souls. This is enough a large number of. No one took care of the landowner's household, it goes "by itself". Unlike Sobakevich, he does not force his peasants to work for wear and tear without food and water, but he has not done anything to make their life better, he is indifferent to them. He never goes to the fields, his farm is not interesting to him. Manilov completely trusted the management of his name days to the clerk.
The landowner rarely left Manilovka, he led a rather idle life. It was enough for him to immerse himself in his thoughts and smoke a pipe. This person is dreamy and has many desires and aspirations, but at the same time he is very lazy. Moreover, his dreams are sometimes absurd - for example, to dig an underground passage, which he does not need at all. And the hero does absolutely nothing to make his dream come true, which characterizes him as a lazy and weak-willed person.
Manilov in dealing with people is quite polite, but at the same time neat. In a conversation with Chichikov, he constantly exchanges pleasantries, but no useful information does not speak. With other characters, he is no less courteous:
"... said Manilov with a pleasant smile ..." or " ...He smiled enticingly..."
Manilov was also a noble dreamer, but almost none of his dreams were realized, either an underground tunnel or a bridge across his pond. This person spends a lot of time on new dreams and fantasies, but does nothing to make the dream a reality:
"At home he spoke very little and for the most part thought and thought, but what he thought, too, did God know."
His laziness is also emphasized by the words about what kind of a landowner and owner he is, and that he never even traveled around his own fields to check them or personally control the fulfillment of his requirements and instructions. Despite the fact that the hero has a large enough household, he pays him very little attention, letting everything, in fact, take its course.
The image of the hero in the work
("Portrait of Manilov", artist V. Andreev, 1900)
At the beginning of the poem, the landowner seems to the reader to be a rather pleasant and intelligent man, but further along the plot, Mnilov becomes boring and does not in an interesting way. The author even highlights the hero's handwriting when Chichikov speaks of his handwriting in one of the dialogues of the work.
He has no opinion of his own and can only speak common courtesies, being incapable of bold steps and solutions. But, Manilov himself presents himself as well-mannered, educated and noble. By the way, Manilov believed that officials were “the most respectable people,” and he constantly strives to speak with them as politely and culturally as possible.
After reading the poem, we can conclude that the landowner Manilov is not able to think about his life and independently accept complex decisions. He can do everything only in words, but not in actions. But, at the same time, the landowner appears as good family man who truly loves his family is important detail his image. Therefore, despite the fact that he is lazy a lot, does not keep his word, one cannot say that his soul is dead - he still has the positive qualities of a hero.
Among the landowners visited by Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, Manilov stands apart.
The image and characterization of Manilov in the poem "Dead Souls" is the personification of living people who have lost their personality and individuality. Manilov is a soul that has lost the purpose of life, a "dead soul", but it is worth nothing even for such a scoundrel as Chichikov.
The landowner is a dreamer
The reader will learn quite a lot about the first inhabitant of the suburb, who was visited by Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov. He is a retired officer who has been accustomed to smoking a pipe since his army service. He has been married to Lizonka for eight years, with whom he has two sons. Love between spouses resembles true happiness. They carry sweets, apples, nuts to each other, showing this care. They speak in soft voices. Love with its excessive sentimentality resembles a parody. The sons have such names that it is impossible not to dwell on them: Alkid and Themistoklus. Parents wanted to distinguish their children from the crowd, at least with names. Manilov presents himself as a Westerner, a man who builds his life in the European manner, but this results in absurdity and nonsense.The gullibility of the owner of the manor house leads to deception. The peasants ask to be let go to work, while they themselves go for a walk and get drunk. The naivety of the master leads to devastation. The whole estate is lifeless and miserable. The clerk on the estate is not surprising to the reader - a drunkard and a lazy person. Life in the estate and around flows according to some unknown laws of its own. The landowner became an association of a whole way of life - "Manilovism". This is an idle, dreamy attitude to life without work and action.
Character appearance
The landowner with the pleasant surname Manilov is not Old man, as the author of "middle years" says. His face is remembered for its excessive sweetness. It reminds the author of cloying sweets, excess sugar.Character traits:
- blue-eyed;
- blond;
- smiling pleasantly and enticingly.
Interesting clothes of the landowner:
- green "shallow" frock coat;
- warm cap with ears;
- bears in brown cloth.
Communication with Manilov
The surname of the character was chosen by the author from the so-called "talkers". The landowner "beckons" with his sweetness, flattery and sycophancy. From communication with the landowner quickly get tired. His pleasant at first glance smile becomes cloying and boring.- 1 minute - a nice person;
- 2 minutes - do not know what to say;
- 3 minutes - "The devil knows what it is."
Hero character
It would seem that the character of the landowner is built on his upbringing. He is educated and noble, but in fact this character has no character. At what point Manilov stopped developing is unclear. In the office there is a book that the owner has been reading for more than 2 years, and reading is on one page. The master is very hospitable. He welcomes everyone like a hospitable host. He sees only the good in everyone, he simply closes his eyes to the bad. It becomes more fun when approaching the house of the britzka with guests, a smile spreads all over his face. More often Manilov is not talkative. He indulges in dreams and talks to himself. Thoughts fly away, and only God knows what he thinks. The most important thing is that thoughts and dreams do not require implementation. They are like smoke, fluttering and melting. The man is simply too lazy to pronounce these thoughts. He likes to create cigarette ash slides that fall like sandcastles.- indifference;
- laziness;
- lack of own opinion;
- verbiage.
Special qualities
The landlord has no name. Surprisingly, the author does not even give a hint. Unusual names the children have, the wife's name is Lizonka, and the hero has nothing but a surname. This is his first elusiveness. The author says that such people are known under the name: "neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan, nor in the village of Selifan." What else can be attributed to the special features and characteristics:Projection. Manilov dreams, has plans that are not destined to come true. It is difficult to imagine them in someone else's head: an underground passage, a superstructure for viewing Moscow.
Sentimentality. Everything causes tenderness in the soul of a man, and indiscriminately. He doesn't get to the heart of the matter. He rejoices in everything he sees. This attitude is surprising. You can not rejoice at the bare forests, scattered houses. "Schi from a pure heart" causes a smirk in an attentive reader. "May Day - Name Day of the Heart" - it is difficult to even understand the meaning of an enthusiastic feeling.
The man has many special qualities - beautiful handwriting, accuracy, but they only emphasize that Manilov could have been a good judge, but everything faded and died.
Things around the landlord
All objects surrounding the owner speak of his unsuitability, isolation from reality.House. The building stands in the wind, on a hill without trees. Around the liquid crowns of birches, which the author calls the tops. The symbol of Russia is losing its natural appeal.
Pond. The surface of the water is not visible. It is overgrown with duckweed, more like a swamp.
Alcove. The name of the lord's resting place is "Temple of Solitary Reflection." It should be comfortable here, but there is no word about it. Running building.
There has been no furniture in one of the rooms for 8 years, the emptiness in the manor's house is not due to a lack of funds, but from the laziness and mismanagement of the masters.
The landowner Manilov is the only one who did not sell, but gave away dead souls. It is so impractical that it incurs the cost of making a purchase. But this is the whole essence of the landowner: senseless sycophancy in front of any person, be it even a criminal or a scoundrel.
