The great Russian classic N.V. Gogol, although he was a very religious person, he had a certain predilection for writing stories about all sorts of deeds of the “unclean” - horror stories that old people liked to tell in the evening on a farm, under a torch or near a fire, yes so that later all who listened to them, both old and young, shuddered with horror.
Gogol knew such stories in great numbers. "Enchanted Place" summary of this work will be presented a little lower) - one of these works. It is included in the cycle of stories in the two-volume book Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. This one was first printed in 1832 in the second volume.
Gogol, "The Enchanted Place". Heroes and plot
Old grandfather Foma was still a storyteller, and everyone pestered him: tell me, tell me. It was impossible to get rid of them. And so he began his next story with the fact that if the devilish power wants to fool someone, he will definitely do it. When he was still a boy of about eleven, his father, taking with him his three-year-old brother, went to the Crimea to sell tobacco. Grandfather, mother, Foma and his two brothers remained to live on the chestnut (a field with watermelons, melons and various vegetables). A road stretched nearby, and one evening chumaks-wagonists passed by, who were going to the Crimea for goods - salt and fish. Grandfather recognized among them his old acquaintances. The guests settled down in a hut, lit up cradles and began to treat themselves to melons. And then they began to remember the past. In the end, it all came down to dancing.
Continuation of Gogol's work "The Enchanted Place"
Grandfather forced his grandchildren to dance - Foma and his brother Ostap, and even started dancing himself and wrote out a pretzel, but as soon as he reached a smooth place where there was a bed of cucumbers, his legs stopped obeying him and stood up, he could not move them. Then the grandfather began to swear at the unclean, believing that these were her tricks. And then someone giggled behind him, he looked back, and behind him there were no chumaks, no fields with vegetables.
What is Gogol talking about next? The “enchanted place” has the following summary: the grandfather began to look more closely at the area, and recognized the priest’s dovecote and the fenced plot of land of the volost clerk. Having orientated himself a little, he went to his garden, but saw that not far from the road there was a grave, in which the light of a candle was burning. Grandfather immediately thought that this was a treasure, and regretted that he did not have a shovel. He spotted this place in order to return later, put a branch on the grave and went home.
cherished treasure
Interestingly, Gogol continues "The Enchanted Place". The summary tells that the next day, already in the late afternoon, as soon as it got dark, the main character went to look for the treasured grave with a mark. On the way, he saw the priest's dovecote, but for some reason there was no clerk's garden. When he stepped aside, the dovecote immediately disappeared. He realized that all this was the machinations of the evil one. And then it began to rain, grandfather returned to his place.
In the morning he went to work on the beds with a shovel and, passing by that mysterious place where his legs stopped obeying in the dance, he could not restrain himself and hit him with a shovel. And lo and behold, he is again at the place where his mark and grave are. Grandfather was delighted that now he had a tool and would definitely dig up his treasure now. He went to the grave, and there was a stone. The old man moved it and wanted to sniff the tobacco. But then someone sneezed nearby and even splashed him. Grandfather realized that the devil did not like his tobacco. He began to dig and came across a bowler hat. He exclaimed with joy: "There you are, my dear." And then these words echoed, the bird's beak, the ram's head and the bear's snout from the tree screamed. Grandfather immediately threw a shiver. He decided to run away, but he still took the bowler hat with him.
Gogol's "The Enchanted Place" leads to an intriguing moment. The summary is gaining momentum.
The machinations of the evil one
All the family members have lost their grandfather, they have already sat down for dinner. The mother went out to pour the slop into the yard, and then she saw how the cauldron itself was moving along the path, she, out of fright, splashed all the hot slop on it. In fact, this grandfather was walking with a cauldron, and all the slop in the form of skins of melons and watermelons hung on his head. Mother, of course, got it from him, but then the grandfather, having calmed down, told his grandchildren that soon they would walk in new caftans. However, when he opened the cauldron, he found no gold there.
From that time on, grandfather taught the children not to believe the devil, since he will always deceive, and that he has not a penny of truth. Now every time he crossed places that seemed strange to him. And the grandfather fenced that enchanted plot and no longer cultivated it, only he threw all kinds of garbage there. Then, when other people sowed watermelons and melons on it, nothing worthwhile grew there anymore. This is where Gogol's story "The Enchanted Place" ended.
Drafts of Gogol's story "Enchanted Place" have not survived, so the exact date of its creation is unknown. Most likely it was written in 1830. The story "The Enchanted Place" was included in the second book of the collection "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka".
The works of this collection have a complex hierarchy of narrators. The subtitle of the cycle indicates that “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” was published by a certain beekeeper, Rudy Panko. The stories "The Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala", "The Missing Letter" and "The Enchanted Place" were told by the deacon of one church. This removal of the author from the participant in the events allowed Gogol to achieve a double effect. Firstly, to avoid the accusation of writing "fables", and secondly, to emphasize the folk spirit of the story.
Plot The story is really based on the traditions of folklore, which were well known to the writer from childhood. Tales about "cursed places" and treasures are characteristic of the myth-making of many peoples. In Slavic legends, treasures were often sought in cemeteries. The right grave was indicated by a suddenly flashed candle. Traditional for folk stories and motive turning ill-gotten wealth into rubbish.
The originality of the story is manifested in a bright and juicy language, which is generously dotted with Ukrainian words: "chumaks", "kuren", "bashtan", "lads"... The extremely accurate depiction of folk life, as well as the writer's sparkling humor create a special Gogolian atmosphere, full of poetic fantasy and slyness. It seems to the reader that he himself is among the deacon's listeners. This effect is achieved through apt comments by the narrator.
Main character story - grandfather Maxim. The author describes it with good irony. This is a lively, cheerful and active old man who loves to brag, dances dashingly and is not afraid of the devil himself. Grandfather really likes to listen to the stories of the Chumaks. He scolds his grandchildren, calls "dog children", but it is clear that the old man does not have a soul in tomboys. And they play a friendly joke on the grandfather.
An important element of the story is the enchanted place itself. In our time, it would be called an anomalous zone. Grandfather accidentally discovers "bad place" during the dance. As soon as the old man hits his border "Near the Cucumber Patch", so the legs themselves stop dancing. And inside the enchanted place, strange things happen with space and time, which the grandfather attributes to the action of evil spirits.
The transition between the real and unreal world is depicted as a distorted space. Landmarks that the grandfather notes for himself in the anomaly zone do not appear in the real world. He can't manage to find a point from which the priest's dovecote and the threshing floor of the haired clerk are visible.
The cursed place has "your character". It does not like strangers, but does not harm uninvited guests, but only frightens them. There is no particular damage from the penetration of irrational forces into the real world either. The land in the anomalous zone just does not produce a crop. The enchanted place is not averse to playing with grandfather. That does not allow to itself, despite all efforts, then it suddenly opens easily. There are many unusual means in the arsenal of the anomalous zone: suddenly spoiled weather, the disappearance of a month from the sky, monsters. Fear makes the old man abandon the find for a while. But the thirst for profit turns out to be stronger, so otherworldly forces decide to teach grandfather a lesson. In the cauldron, which was obtained with such difficulty in a cursed place, were not jewelry, but "Litter, squabble and ashamed to say what it is".
After such a science, the hero of the story became very religious, swore himself to deal with evil spirits and punished all those close to him. Grandfather peculiarly takes revenge on the devil who confused him so much. The old man encloses the enchanted place with a wattle fence and throws all the rubbish from the tower there.
Such an ending is natural. Gogol shows that such treasures do not bring good. Grandfather receives as a reward not a treasure, but a mockery. So the writer affirms the idea of the illusory nature of any wealth that is acquired by dishonest labor.
Pushkin, Herzen, Belinsky and other contemporaries of Gogol enthusiastically accepted the "Enchanted Place". And today, readers with a smile and great interest are immersed in wonderful world where wit, poetry and fantasy reign, the very soul of the people comes to life.
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Initially, it is necessary to note the main characters of the work "The Enchanted Place":
» Merchants.
" Grandfather.
» Daughter-in-law.
» Grandchildren.
The story presented by the author happened a long time ago. Even at a time when the writer, and in this case the narrator, was still a very young child. Gogol tells that the father of the lyrical character takes one of his sons and goes to the Crimea to sell tobacco. On the farm where the family lives, the remaining three sons remain with their mother and grandfather. They remained to guard the property from unwanted guests. At a certain moment, a cart with merchants, who were very familiar to grandfather, passes by the house. Seeing each other, they begin to hug and kiss. The guests enter the house. Pipes are lit and taken to the meal. All this develops into noisy fun and dancing. Grandfather at this time also decides to shake the old days and dances. Out of the blue, something unusual begins to happen to the grandfather ...
Main development
Grandfather is seriously dispersed, and his legs cease to obey. He starts swearing at them, but to no avail. Laughter came from behind him. Turning around, he saw no one there. Grandfather begins to understand that he is in some incomprehensible place. In front of him was a spacious and bare field, a forest was located on the side, near which there was a huge pole.Grandfather thought for a moment that the place was familiar to him and the field belonged to the clerk, and the pole was the dovecote of the local priest. The author notes that the sky was black to the point of fear, it was not visible for months and there was complete darkness all around.
Grandfather decides to go across the field and after a while he finds a path. There is a small light in front of him. As it turned out - it's on the grave. The light quickly went out and appeared in a completely different place.
The hero was immediately overwhelmed with joy, he thought that he had found a treasure. The only thing he regretted was that he did not have a shovel with him. He thought that this was not a problem and decided to mark the place with something so that he could come back later. Grandfather chose a large branch and marked with it a grave with a treasure, where a light could be seen. Having done this manipulation, he returned back. It was getting late and all the kids were already asleep.
The protagonist did not tell anyone about his find, and the next day, taking a spade with him, he went to the mountain, where he had been at night and marked the treasure. When he arrived, he did not recognize him at all. The dovecote stood still, but there was no threshing floor. As soon as the grandfather turns towards the field, the dovecote disappears.
The old man returned home empty-handed. The next day, my grandfather decided to dig up a garden bed and accidentally hit with a shovel exactly in the place where he had danced earlier. At that moment, the picture around changed dramatically, and he ended up exactly in the field where he had been before and saw the lights. The grandfather was very happy and ran to the familiar grave. A huge stone lay on the site of the grave. He puts it away and decides to sniff some tobacco. At this moment, he hears a loud sneeze above him, looking around, he does not see anyone.
Grandfather starts digging a grave and tears off the cauldron. He is very happy with his find and shouts: “There you are!”. The same words are repeated by a bird sitting on a branch, and then a ram's head from a tree. Suddenly, a bear looked out of the forest and repeated this phrase. The old man does not have time to say anything, as everything around him repeats. This greatly frightens the grandfather and he runs away ...
The ending of the story
There is a real panic in the grandfather's house, everyone is trying to look for him and do not understand where he has gone. They had already started supper, but the old man was still gone. Having tasted the food, the hostess goes to the yard to pour out the slop. Suddenly she sees a barrel moving towards her. He took it for a joke and pours slop directly on her. As it turned out, it was their missing old man. The cauldron he pulled up turned out to be nothing but dirt and debris. From that moment on, the old man swears that he will never believe the devil again, and he has surrounded the place that is cursed with a fence. Since then, incomprehensible plants, not seen by people before, began to grow on this place.
Analysis of the work of N. V. Gogol "The Enchanted Place"
Many researchers argue that the drafts that Gogol wrote have not survived to the present. That is why there are no exact dates indicating the creation of the work.It should be noted that the works from this cycle have a complex hierarchy. The author withdraws from the work in a peculiar way. This was necessary in order to avoid accusations from others when creating fables. This approach allows you to emphasize the special folk spirit in the work.
The storyline of the story is based on the main traditions of folklore, which were very familiar to the author from early childhood. It is the tales of something mystical and various cursed places that are typical for the mythical themes of the stories of that time. According to the stories of the Slavs, treasures were always kept in cemeteries, and a lit candle indicated the right grave. It is also traditional for the Slavs that wealth often turns into garbage.
The presented story has an original type of narration. The language used in the stories is presented in the form of a juicy and vivid narrative, generously dotted with a variety of words from the Ukrainian language, for example, lads, chumak, kuren and much more.
As accurately as possible, the reader is presented with the folk life, overflowing with sparkling humor. It is this in particular that immediately reminds of the Gogol atmosphere, which is full of various fantasy and constant slyness. The story is written in such a way that it seems to the reader that the listener is nearby. This effect is reinforced by the narrator's well-aimed comments.
The main character in the story "The Enchanted Place" is an old man named Maxim. The author describes his personality with the most kind irony. He is presented as lively, cheerful and happy man who dances famously and is not afraid of anyone. The grandfather loves to listen to the stories of travelers, does not want to scold his grandchildren, and the grandchildren, in turn, do not mind playing a joke on their grandfather.
The territory on which the events in the story take place is a place enchanted by the devil. At present, such a place would be called a zone of anomalies. The protagonist accidentally discovers him when he is dancing a dance. Inside the enchanted place, things incomprehensible to the imagination happen, where time changes and the presence of evil spirits is felt.
The change of real time and the unreal world occurs by distorting spatial sensations. Those places that are in the anomalous zone do not exist in reality. It is precisely those points that he previously saw that are simply impossible to find in the present.
The cursed place has its own character. There is no stranger and uninvited guests here, and everything that happens is frightening. Cron from the penetration of forces is not applied to a person in real time. The enchanted place only wants to play and make fun of the person. In some cases, it does not let you in, even despite all sorts of efforts. It can open and close all of a sudden.
The anomalous zone has many specialized tools - this is constantly deteriorating weather, and the disappearance of the moon in the sky, as well as multiple monsters that can appear anywhere. A person who has fallen into an enchanted place is enveloped in a feeling of fear. The thirst for profit turns out to be much stronger, so the evil spirits decide to teach the old man a lesson. What the grandfather gets with great difficulty turns out to be not jewelry, but garbage.
The final part of the work is quite natural. Gogol says that treasures will not lead anyone to good. The protagonist does not receive treasure, but only ridicule. Thus, the writer shows the idea of transparency in achieving wealth when earning it by unclean labor.
The story "The Enchanted Place" ( fourth), the second part of "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" ends. It was first published in 1832 in the second book of Evenings. The absence of a manuscript makes it impossible to determine the exact date of writing the story. It is assumed that it refers to the early works of N.V. Gogol and refers to the period 1829 - 1830.
IN storyline two main motives are intertwined: the search for treasure and the outrages created by devils in enchanted places. The story itself originates in folklore stories, in which the main leitmotif is the idea that wealth received from evil spirits does not bring happiness. In some ways, it echoes the "Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala." The author denounces the thirst for enrichment, an irrepressible passion for money, which unequivocally leads to disastrous consequences, and turns the acquired money into garbage. The story is based on folk beliefs and legends about enchanted "deceptive places".
Analysis of the work
The plot of the work
Based on folklore, with which Nikolai Vasilyevich was well acquainted since childhood. Legends and beliefs about "enchanted places" and treasures exist among most peoples of the world. The Slavs had a belief that treasures could be found in the cemetery. A candle flared over the grave with the treasure. Traditionally, there is also a popular belief that ill-gotten wealth turns into rubbish.
The story is rich in juicy, bright original folk Ukrainian, which is showered with Ukrainian words: “bashtan”, “kuren”, “chumaks”. The folk life is displayed as accurately as possible, Gogol's humor creates a unique atmosphere. The story is structured in such a way that there is a feeling of personal presence, as if you yourself are among the deacon's listeners. This is achieved through precise comments by the narrator.
The plot is based on the story of the deacon of the local church, Foma Grigorievich, who is familiar to many readers from the story “The Missing Letter”, about an incident from the life of his grandfather. His story, bright and memorable, is full of humor. It was not by chance that the author gave the story the title "The Enchanted Place". It intertwines two worlds: reality and fantasy. The real world is represented by the life of people, the fantastic one is a grave, treasure and devilry. The deacon's memories take him back to childhood. The father with the eldest son left to sell tobacco. At home there was a mother with three children and a grandfather. One day, having gone on a walk with visiting merchants, the grandfather began to dance in the garden, until he reached one place in the garden and stopped, as if rooted to the spot, near the garden with cucumbers. He looked around and did not recognize the place, but he realized that he was behind the clerk's threshing floor. Somehow I found a path and saw a candle flare on a nearby grave. Noticed another grave. On it, too, a candle flared up, and behind it another.
According to folk legend, this happens where the treasure is buried. Grandfather was delighted, but he had nothing with him. Having marked the place with a large branch, he went home. The next day he tried to find this place, but did not find anything, only by accidentally hitting a cucumber bed with a spade, he again found himself in the same place, near the grave on which the stone lay.
And then the real hell began. Before my grandfather had time to get tobacco to sniff, someone sneezed behind his ear. He began to dig and dug out a pot. "Ah, my dear, that's where you are!". And after him the same words were repeated by a bird, a ram's head from the top of a tree, and a bear. Grandfather was frightened, grabbed the cauldron and rushed to run. At this time, his mother and children began to look for him. After supper, the mother went out to pour hot slop and saw that a barrel was crawling on her. Deciding that these were naughty children, the woman poured slop on her. But it turned out that it was the grandfather.
We decided to see what kind of treasure the grandfather had brought, opened the pot, and there was garbage “and it’s a shame to say what it is.” Since then, the grandfather began to believe only in Christ, and fenced the enchanted place with wattle.
Main characters
Grandfather Maxim
The hero of the story is grandfather Maxim. Judging by the words of the deacon, his grandfather was a cheerful and interesting man. In the author's ironic description, this is a cheerful, lively old man who loves to have fun, joke, boast somewhere. A big fan of listening to the stories of Chumaks. He refers to his grandchildren only as "dog children", but it is clear that they are all his favorites. Grandchildren respond to him with the same love.
enchanted place
The enchanted place itself can be called the hero of the story. By modern concepts it can be called an anomalous place. Grandfather Maxim discovers this place by chance during a dance. Inside the zone, space and time change their properties, which the old man attributes to evil spirits. Herself anomalous zone also has its own character. It does not show much love for strangers, but it does not harm obviously, only frightening. There is no great harm from the presence of this place in the real world, except that nothing grows here. Moreover, it is ready to play with the old man. That is hidden from him, then it is easily opened. In addition, he has at his disposal a lot of means for intimidation: the weather, the vanishing moon, talking ram's heads and monsters.
The demonstration of all these miracles for some time frightens the old man and he throws his find, but the thirst for the treasure turns out to be stronger than fear. For this, the grandfather receives punishment. The cauldron he had worked so hard to find was full of rubbish. Science went to him for the future. Grandfather became very pious, vowed to communicate with evil spirits and punished all his relatives for this.
Conclusion
With this story, Gogol shows that only the wealth that is acquired in an honest way is for the future, and that which is acquired dishonestly is illusory. On the example of the story with his grandfather, he gives us the opportunity to believe in good and bright. The writer's contemporaries, including Belinsky, Pushkin Herzen, received the story with rave reviews. For more than 150 years, this story has made the reader smile, plunging him into the amazing Gogol world of wit, fantasy, folk poetry in which the very soul of the people comes to life.
"The Enchanted Place" is a uniquely skillful use of folklore and folk legends. Even the evil spirit introduced into the story has nothing to do with mysticism. Folk fiction is attractive to us for its everyday simplicity, naive and direct. Therefore, all the heroes of Gogol are saturated with bright colors of life, full of enthusiasm and folk humor.
Real and fantastic in the story of N. V. Gogol "The Enchanted Place"
The story of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol "The Enchanted Place" is the story of a deacon about an incident from his life. It is wonderfully written and interesting. With each line, reading this story is more and more captivating. Even the deacon himself, who reluctantly began the story, was so carried away by his narration that he reproached the listeners for inattention: “What really! .. Listen to listen like that!”
The main character of the story is the deacon's grandfather. His image is very bright and memorable. Telling us the story that happened to the grandfather, the deacon tries to give us all the details, and this makes the story more reliable.
It is impossible not to notice the humor with which the deacon leads his story. He calls his grandfather “old crap”, laughs at how his grandfather danced, how he tried to find a treasure, how his mother poured slop on him. The grandfather, in turn, called his grandchildren "dog children", scolded them. But we feel that the characters truly love and appreciate each other.
According to the deacon, most of all, grandfather liked to listen to the stories of the Chumaks passing by: “But for grandfather, it’s like a hungry dumpling.” And we understand that the hero himself was a cheerful, interesting person, it’s not in vain that the deacon says: “It used to happen, he decides ...”
But the best way to understand the character of the grandfather is to describe the search for the treasure. His speech and thoughts are full of unusual expressions: “What a disgusting face!”, “Well, lads, now you will have bagels!”.
Gogol did not accidentally give the story such a name - "The Enchanted Place". After all, the work combines two worlds: real and fantastic. Everything fantastic is connected with the grave, the treasure and the power of the devil.
The real world is life. Depicting the ordinary life of people, Gogol uses Ukrainian words, such as "chumaks", "kuren". An interesting description of the way of life of the heroes, how the grandfather grows watermelons, "covers them with burdock", digs "a new bed for late pumpkins." Or about how he defines the weather: ““Tomorrow there will be a big wind!” thought the grandfather.” Gogol admires the pictures of this folk life, the creative work of his heroes.
The whole story is written very brightly and colorfully. Sometimes it seems that you yourself are among the deacon's listeners, because the narration is interrupted by his comments. From the speech of the narrator it becomes clear that he himself has already grown old. But the sexton, like the grandfather, in his soul remains the same young, interesting and unusual person.
At the end of the story, the deacon says that instead of the treasure, the grandfather brought "litter, squabbles ...". After that, the hero began to believe only in Christ, and "... that damned place where they didn’t dance, blocked it with a wattle fence, ordered to throw everything that was indecent ...". We can say that with these lines the author is making fun of his grandfather. Indeed, in this story, Gogol says that good can be acquired only by one's own labor. In addition, using the grandfather as an example, he teaches us to believe in the bright, pure: “So this is how the evil spirit of a person fools!”
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