Chapter one of dead souls: the beginning of hidden mystery

Dead souls is a fictional story of Gogol, which satirizes the dark and absurd Russian Serfdom The protagonist of the story is called qiqikov, a six class civil servant who once enjoyed a good time He used to be the customs chief of a province and made a lot of money Later, his boss changed When the mountain is gone, the official fate of qiqikov has come to an end He was accused of corruption and bribery Originally, there was a prison disaster, but after spending all the money and running up and down, I finally kept my freedom However, the consequences are still very serious He was expelled from the Yamen and never accepted Chichichikov was a man who was used to being in the officialdom He was good at drilling, and he knew how to observe the words and the colors, and how to clap his horse He learned that the emperor had introduced a new policy of appeasing serfs, and that he could issue a low interest loan to each quota, so he calculated to buy the dead serfs list and take out loans Qiqikov took out a small sum of money that he had hidden, took a coachman and a valet, and drove a private two wheeled carriage to the provincial city of NN This is where the story begins "In NN, the provincial capital, a pretty light pony with a spring seat and a folding hood is entering the gate of an inn." In the first chapter, kikkov lives in an ordinary inn After finishing up, he began to visit celebrities and dignitaries in NN Up to the governor, down to the construction engineer, almost all the powerful government officials have gone through He was modest, elegant, knowledgeable, and well spoken, and made a good impression on all Most importantly, he met three landlords at the party held by the governor and other officials, which laid the foundation for him to buy dead serfs in the countryside There are many rhetorical devices worth learning in this chapter The first is the use of symbols When kichikov arrived at the inn in a carriage, two Russian men on the side of the road talked about whether his carriage wheel was strong enough They thought that the carriage could only run to Moscow, but not to Petersburg, which is far away This is a redundant figure of speech, symbolizing that kiukov will eventually fail to buy the dead serfs Next, Gogol arranged another well-dressed young man to fight with the coach of kitchenkov He looked sideways at the people in the coach, held down the hat blown by the wind, and went on his way The man appeared abruptly and disappeared In fact, Gogol also describes such irrelevant people many times in the later chapters, which makes people feel mysterious and unpredictable It's obvious that Ulysses imitates this approach, and the young people in rubber raincoats at funerals are At the provincial governor's party, gogoli also compared many people in tuxedos and walking around to flies crawling around on sugar And then there is a classic comment on flies, which is a metaphor for the emptiness and boredom of Russian aristocrats The beginning of dead soul is wonderful, the plot is compact, and the time, character, place and background are explained in the simplest way.