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M. A. Bulgakov, "The Heart of a Dog": an essay on a work
More than sixty years "Dog Heart" was waiting for its reader. In Germany and England, the story was printed in the early 1960s, while at the same time in the USSR only lucky ones could read it in Samizdat, which were few. And only in 1987 the work was published in the journal "Banner", and a year later was filmed by Vladimir Bortko. In 1925 he wrote M.A. Bulgakov "The Heart of a Dog," an essay that still excites the minds and reveals the meaning of what happened in Russia in those years.
Not at all the school Bulgakov
The compulsory program on literature for secondary education includes two works by this author: "The Heart of a Dog" and "The Master and Margarita." Being the son of a professor of theology and the grandson of priests, the writer put religious symbols into each of his works, made the idea multilayered. Perhaps that's why when reading his books every time something new opens.
Despite the complexity of the ideological content, in the school an essay on Bulgakov's novel "The Heart of a Dog" will have to be written. And for this it is necessary to analyze the genre, name and main images of the work.
An anti-Soviet pamphlet or an anti-utopia?
Usually the "Dog Heart" is called a political satire. It's right. But in part. All that Professor Preobrazhensky says about ruin, the house committee and the Soviet newspapers is, of course, a pamphlet. What Shvonder and Sharikov are talking about is also, no doubt, a satire. Yes, and what! Sharp. Merciless.
Why is the dog's heart?
When analyzing a product of a small form (story, short story, story), its name does not last. So, why did Bulgakov stop exactly on this phrase, because in the text Professor Preobrazhensky, paring Bormental about the heart of Sharikov, claims that he has now a human, only the most lousy of all.
In explanatory dictionaries, the adjective "dog", besides direct meaning indicating belonging to this animal, has other, portable, colloquially-lowered with negative characteristics, denoting something difficult, unbearable, as well as mean, low and despicable. And then everything becomes clear, especially the subtitle of the story - "Monstrous incident" - gives a clue about what Bulgakov meant to say. "Dog Heart" - the work is satirical, in its name is not dog's organ, but the spoiled heart of a new person.
Image system
Surprisingly, but the fact: in the satirical works of Mikhail Bulgakov there are no goodies. And the "Dog Heart" is no exception. A professor who correctly argues and rightly denounces the new government makes a monstrous mistake: the doctor must help people in the treatment of ailments, and he tries to correct what is created by God. Preobrazhensky only then realizes the inadmissibility of such experiments.
So on which of the heroes need to focus, when asked to write an essay "Bulgakov:" Dog's Heart "?" Sharikov - the result of the experiment F.F. Preobrazhensky - it is he who is chief in the story and to some extent the object of the dispute between Shvonder and the professor. But did this fight make sense?
Highly developed person did not turn out
Everything that is connected with Orthodoxy, Bulgakov knew thoroughly, and it is not accidental that his works mention certain dates or directions to them. For example, in the "Master and Margarita" everything indicates that the action takes place on a passionate week before Easter, in the story about Sharikov, events begin at the end of December, and by January 7 a new man appears - Polygraph Polygraphovich.
Why Polygraph?
This name is considered an invention of Bulgakov, although it is known that in the calendar of the saints of the proletariat of that time its female interpretation already appeared. What could the writer have warned about by repeating: Polygraph Polygraphovich? When Mikhail Bulgakov created the "Dog Heart", the composition of such works could not become the property of a wide range of readers. It's a pity! Then many would understand: the name of the main character is connected with polygraphy, which means - replicating, that is, there should be a lot of them.
That's what the essay on "The Heart of a Dog" should be about. Bulgakov could not reach the contemporaries, or rather did not have the opportunity, but in many decades this story is also relevant.
Modern science is moving forward, trying to find a panacea for illnesses and prolonging the days of man on earth, but do not forget that along with a long life one can get a dog's heart that will make the lived century aimless and useless.
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