The Overcoat

In the relevant paragraph we're told that it is customary for "well-bred" officials in the civil service to say something agreeable to their subordinates when giving them work to do. They would say...

Certainly Akakyi's demeanor is affected by the overcoat, considering the sacrifices that he had to go through in order to place upon his shoulders a beautiful and well-made piece of clothing that...

1)Akaky’s overcoat also comes to represent a companion, or a close friend. What evidence is there that the overcoat assumes this symbolic meaning even before Akaky acquires it? Having noticed how...

This is really a question for your own personality to answer, but many people sympathize with Akaky because he is weak, powerless, balding, short, has a bad complexion, etc. He also finally stands...

These words come from early on in Gogol's short story "The Overcoat". They are part of a passage that refers to how the protagonist of the story, a humble clerk by the name of Akaky Akakievich...

Gogol is not oblivious to the real physical needs of people and to the way his society could put meeting those needs out of reach or make obtaining them very difficult. On a practical level,...

In answer to your first question, the corpse (or ghost) of Akaky floats around stealing overcoats because, at first glance, the limited scope of his existence for a short time takes on new life...

Shortly after being appointed to a government job in which he copies documents, Akaky Akakievich becomes dehumanized. No respect was shown him in the department. The porter not only did not rise...

Nikolai Gogol's short story “The Overcoat” begins with a fine example of hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration for the sake of emphasis). The narrator forcefully asserts that there is nothing more...

In "The Overcoat," Akaky Akayevitch's greatest downfall is his meekness, or inability to become something. Even after working so hard to earn his precious overcoat, he remains unable to truly enter...

As one of the major influences in the Russian natural school of literary realism, Nikolai Gogol uses literary techniques, particularly metaphor and simile, to convey direct, defiant, cut-throat,...

One example would be the opening paragraph of this story, which uses a digression to poke fun at the Russian government and its bureaucracy. This is a comic narrative effect because even before the...

Well, we are.Yes, it's easy to say and prove that it's the Person of Consequence, and he seemingly learns a lesson from his run-in with AA's ghost -- at least he'll think twice before talking down...

The techniques of humor and satire would help you address the topic. Focus on the stories use of three of the following: Irony: verbal, situational, dramatic Incongruity Hyberbole Caricature...

Supongo que te refieres a la obra "El capote" (“The Overcoat”), de Nikolái Gógol. Akaki, el protagonista de este relato, es un anodino funcionario cuya difícil situación económica le lleva a pasar...

Corruption is plainly made a focal point in the opening paragraph: "he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial institutions were going to the dogs." The expression "going to the dogs" is an...

There are no heroes in this dark world of isolation and alienation. Gogol does seem to suggest that the only recourse to the denizens of this existence is to find a distraction to make the mind...

Gogol’s story contrasts with Blake‘s poetry in many ways. The appearance of Akaky as a ghost at the end of the story is a product of Gogol’s satire, and Gogol’s notion of the “afterlife” is less...

The first sense we get that the story is a moral allegory is the title, which for the Russian orthodox reader invokes the Biblical story of Joseph's "coat of many colours`that simultaneously marks...