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An analysis of Gogol's Portrait. Serving the arts or wealth?
Nikolai Vasilyevich liked to fantasize in his stories, to create a mystical plot, which is evident from his famous stories "Viy", "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". But if the reader is to plunge into a fictional world of folkloric character, the analysis of Gogol's "Portrait" shows that the author wanted to transfer fantasy to social phenomena. In this, Nikolai Vasilievich reminds many foreign writers, in whom the "supernatural" captures the world. In our case, money is evil.
Inner confrontation of wealth and talent
At the beginning of the story, a young, high-profile artist Chartkov appears before the reader. He is poor, therefore envies the fate of painters, who should draw a few pictures to swim in luxury. The young man grumbles at his fate, because he has to live in ignorance and poverty. And here Gogol creates an atypical and absolutely fantastic situation. Analysis of the work "Portrait" shows the gradual transformation of Chartkov from a talented artist into an envious and greedy person who has destroyed his talent.
In the bench at the Shchukin yard, the artist finds a mysterious portrait, which as a result becomes a source of his enrichment. In the picture there is a particle of the diabolical soul of the pawnbroker Petromikhali. First Chartkov receives money for engraving and mannequins to get serious about art, but then gives in to temptation, acquiring absolutely useless and unnecessary things to him. It comes to the fact that the young man buys talented pictures of other painters and destroys their houses.
Atonement for sins and service to art
N.V. Gogol "Portrait" wrote to oppose the completely different characters of people and their views on art. The author of the diabolical portrait was the father of the narrator. This man, as soon as he realized what power the picture has, and what sin he committed, immediately went to the monastery, to pray for his sins. The writer does not see anything wrong with the art of depicting evil, but a person must repent and not destroy his talent.
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