The role of the silent scene in comedy. Eloquent silence N.V.

characters are present. 3) How does this episode help to understand the idea of ​​the work.

1) what is called comedy? to what type literary works does it refer to comedy?
2) Name what events taking place in the comedy The Inspector General can be correlated with each element of the plot..
Exposition -
Tie -
Development of action -
Climax -
Denouement-

10) why does the play end with a *silent scene*? What do you think its participants are thinking about?

The order in the city was typical for most cities of that time. Describe the city to which the auditor came: its location relative to the capital, the border, how comfortable the city is, what problems the author draws our attention to. (D.1)
Why did the mayor believe that the young man, greedily looking at what the hotel visitors eat and not paying money for housing and food for two weeks, is the auditor? (D.1)
Khlestakov can’t decide with whom to flirt: with the mayor’s wife Anna Andreevna or his daughter Marya Antonovna. But how did the heroines themselves react to the “auditor” Khlestakov? (D.4)
How did each of the officials behave when they visited Khlestakov in the mayor’s house with petitions and gifts of money?
Officials, reflecting on Khlestakov’s rank, assume that “a general will not hold a candle to him! And when he is a general, then perhaps he is a generalissimo himself.” Meanwhile, out of fear of an “important” person, they did not notice that Khlestakov himself let slip about his true rank: “They even wanted to make him a collegiate assessor, but yes, I think why.” That is, the rank young man was even lower than that. What was the actual rank of Khlestakov? (D 2)
Once again, carefully re-read the “Silent Scene” at the end of the comedy. What is its significance in your opinion?
This official is a passionate hunter. Even in the institution under his jurisdiction there is “a hunting arapnik right above the cabinet with papers.” Name the hero, what does he manage in the city? (D.1)
It was this hero who began to report to the “auditor” Khlestakov about how things really were in city institutions when he visited him in the mayor’s house along with other officials. Name it. (D.4)
One of the employees of this institution has such a violent temper that he is ready not only to smash furniture, but to lose his life - “for science.” Name the institution and the official who runs it. (D.1)
This hero asked Khlestakov: “When you go to St. Petersburg, tell all the different nobles there: senators and admirals, that your Excellency or Excellency lives in such and such a city:.” Who wanted to inform all the capital's nobles about themselves? (D.4)

What is the role of the silent scene in the comedy The Government Inspector? Please tell me, I really need it!!!

• The last, silent scene in the comedy “The Inspector General” was very important for Gogol himself.
  He paid a lot of attention to it and considered it key in understanding general meaning comedies. The characters remain on stage in a frozen state for a very long time - “almost a minute and a half”, which allows the viewer to take a good look at everyone individually, as well as get a general impression of the situation.
  With this scene, the author wants to reveal each character to the viewer, because it is at the moment of inaction that one can see the essence of each of them.
  Through the series of different events occurring in the play it is not always possible to catch personality traits inherent in heroes. And the silent scene leaves the viewer alone with each character.
  At the end of the comedy, all the characters who acted earlier appear on stage, with the exception of Khlestakov.
  Everyone gathers to offer congratulations to the mayor’s family, after which the blows of fate begin to fall on them one after another. First, the postmaster appears on the scene, bringing news that astonishes everyone. After reading the letter, a period of general indignation and indignation ensues, which is suddenly interrupted by a message about the arrival of a real auditor.
  “The spoken words strike everyone like thunder, ... the whole group, suddenly changing their position, remains petrified.”
  This remark, referring to a silent scene, allows us to understand a lot about the author's intention. Firstly, the expression “like thunder,” in my opinion, creates the impression of a higher, divine punishment.
  The fact that Gogol wanted to create the impression of petrification in the viewer of the comedy is also of interest. This not only allows the reader and viewer to observe the first reaction of the characters, but also makes them think about the “petrification” of people’s souls, about the falsity of their feelings.
  If you pay attention to the poses in which the heroes of the comedy freeze, their unnaturalness and comicality immediately catches the eye. Moreover, despite this, all the poses perfectly express the mood of the characters and their behavior throughout the play. Very great importance for the play have the poses of the mayor and his meaning.
  Luka Lukich, “lost in the most innocent way,” was “lost” in the same way while communicating with the other characters, especially with Khlestakov. The postmaster, who is constantly afraid to express his own opinion and always asks more questions than he claims, in the end of the play simply turns into “a question mark.”
  “Helpful and fussy” Strawberry, whom Gogol characterizes at the very beginning of the play as a weasel and a rogue, seems to be listening to something, as if he wants to find a loophole in order to somehow avoid trouble once again.
  In addition, other characters also participate in the silent scene - Korobkin, three ladies, guests, who here openly express their mockery of someone else's comical situation, whereas throughout the entire play they carefully hid it.
  Thus, the silent scene is probably the most truthful scene in all comedy. She personifies emotional dependence heroes and thereby suggests to the viewer the idea of ​​the work.
  The heroes do not have the opportunity to say anything, moreover, they do not move, forced to freeze at the moment of their first reaction. Thus, being unable to lie, they inevitably appear truthful.

  In fact, this is the climax of the work.

• The ending of N. V. Gogol's play “The Inspector General” is an unusual and surprising phenomenon in Russian drama. The so-called silent scene, which ends the comedy, follows after the gendarme... announced the arrival of a real auditor in the city. Shocked officials froze in anticipation of imminent reprisals. The mayor stands like a pillar in the middle of the stage; the postmaster turned "into a question mark addressed to the spectators"; the judge squatted almost to the ground and seemed to want to say: “Here’s St. George’s Day for you, grandma! “Some are amazed, some are amazed, some are gloating - all the officials make up a very picturesque and expressive group. And this silent scene, which serves as an important conclusion to the comedy, was interpreted by spectators, critics, and literary scholars in different ways.

  N.V. Gogol himself said that the silent scene expresses the idea of ​​the “law,” upon the advent of which everything “turned pale and shook.” That is, the ending of the comedy is the thought of impending retribution. V. G. Belinsky spoke about the limitations of the silent stage, but most critics still agree with the author. Thus, V. Gippius believed that the silent stage expresses the idea of ​​power and law, V. Ermilov saw in the silent stage a “parade of carved meanness.” M. Khrapchenko has a special point of view: he saw the external denouement in the silent scene, and the real denouement in the words of the Governor: “Why are you laughing? You're laughing at yourself!.."

  But, perhaps, the most interesting point of view was expressed by Yu. Mani, a literary critic who devoted a lot of work to Gogol’s work. He believed that the silent scene is the final chord of the work, in which the characters’ experiences receive plastic expression, as if summarizing the events human life. As a result, Gogol’s hint of the triumph of justice increases the feeling of anxiety and fear. Indeed, the fear that arose at the beginning of the scene, and then happily melted away when the officials paid off the “auditor” and calmed down, returned. But now the feeling of anxiety increases many times over - officials find themselves in an even worse situation than at the beginning of the play. After all, having thrown all their efforts into pleasing Khlestakov, they never bothered to establish at least external order in their affairs.

  That is why the appearance of a real auditor leads the heroes to a silent scene.

• N. V. Gogol's comedy “The Inspector General” at one time became one of the most innovative works of dramatic art. Many of the techniques used by the author have never been used by playwrights before and have not been embodied in theater stage. Such innovative techniques include the aforementioned “silent scene”, which ends final part comedy "The Inspector General". What did the author want to achieve by concluding the work with a silent scene? What effect did you expect?

  It is believed that the silent scene that ends the comedy “The Inspector General” was introduced into the work by the writer under the impression of famous painting Russian artist Karl Bryullov “The Last Day of Pompeii”. It is this picture that strikes the person looking at it with the strength and expressiveness of frozen emotion. The image is motionless, static, but at the same time, the faces of the people depicted in the picture, their figures, the poses they take, testify to their inner state better than any words. The eloquence of static scenes, their expressiveness - it was these properties that were subtly noticed by N.V. Gogol and later successfully used by the writer. After all, “The Inspector General” is far from the only work of the writer in which there is a “silent scene” (in another extremely popular work- the story “Viy” - the author also uses this technique). If we consider artistic techniques, used by N.V. Gogol, in more detail, one can notice a certain pattern: the technique of “death”, a kind of “petrification” is the basis for the depiction of many characteristic Gogol characters (for example, the same landowners in “ Dead souls""). In The Inspector General, the silent scene is the climax, and it should be the most eloquent. Freezing in an expressive pose (in this case, the poses of all characters are different, which emphasizes their individual personal qualities) is a real pantomime. The mayor, members of his family, the postmaster, Strawberry, Luka Lukich - all of them become mimes for some time, actors in the “theater of facial expressions and gestures”. And words are not needed here, maybe even unnecessary. Posture and facial expression can express an incomparably greater surge of emotions than words.

  Moreover, the silent scene in “The Inspector General” is also a massive one - everyone stands as if struck by thunder, and this circumstance once again emphasizes how shocking and stunning the news was for all the characters that “... an official who arrived by personal order from St. Petersburg demands you to come to him this very hour.”

  Gogol was the first Russian playwright to use the pause technique, which was successfully used by many directors, screenwriters and writers after him. Today, the pause technique is one of the most commonly used dramatic techniques.

Further more. The postmaster is presented as playful and exalted, and if at first you take this for mannerism, then by the middle of the play there is no longer any doubt about the hero’s orientation. Continuing the theme, Khlestakov sits on the judge’s lap and asks what kind of women he likes: blondes and brunettes. And in this case, the judge’s embarrassment takes a completely different turn.

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At the mere mention of men, the Mayor’s daughter parts her fluffy skirt and shows off her trousers. And during her explanation with Khlestakov, she completely rolls around the stage: she either stands up doggy style, or lies on her back and spreads her legs in pantaloons.

The silent scene in the finale was completely unexpected decision. The final act begins with the Gorodnichy family accepting congratulations on the occasion of their daughter’s imminent wedding to Khlestakov. At the same time, the Mayor himself, his wife and daughter in elegant costumes are sitting on the stage, and behind them there is a painted decoration covering the entire wall. It depicts caricatured figures of beautifully dressed ladies and gentlemen with slits instead of faces, like in some kind of photographer’s set on the Yalta embankment, and through these slits the faces of the actors playing provincial officials are visible.

When in the finale the actors who played Khlestakov and Osip appear in uniform and announce the arrival of the inspector, the set soars up and completely naked actors appear before the eyes of the astonished audience, squealing and covering themselves with their hands. Then the lights go out, the curtain goes out. The dressed actors (the Gorodnichy family, Khlestakov and Osip) bow, and the naked ones behind the scenes quickly put on canvas rags and take a bow in them.
I won’t judge how Christian Gogol would have reacted to this production, but the audience was clearly encouraged by the ending. However, if I were the teachers who brought schoolchildren to the performance, I would be embarrassed that the students would judge Gogol’s comedy based on a rather frivolous production.
Otherwise, interesting scenery, unexpected directorial decisions, good job Alexandra Lazareva, the charm of Svetlana Nemolyaeva, the hilariously funny Khlestakov and the very colorful servant Osip - a fellow in a soldier's overcoat who commands his unlucky master.

Writes Yulia Nabokova

Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" ends very unexpectedly and unusually. The author used the so-called “silent scene” as the finale. But what is its significance for understanding what is happening?

The fact is that during these few days the officials experienced so many unexpected and terrible events that the last trouble- the arrival of a real auditor - turned out to be so stunning for them that it plunged them into shock.

After all, at first they were afraid of the imaginary “auditor”, they tried to appease him with monetary bribes, they contrived in every possible way to serve him, they even almost managed to marry the mayor’s daughter to him. Then the postmaster announced that the auditor was not real. Even this news was enough to cause bewilderment among the heroes. But to this is added another one - about the arrival of a real auditor, who became the last straw. So many feelings and emotions were seething in the heads of the poor people that they simply became petrified and could not budge.

The whole group looks very comical and ridiculous. The participants froze in a variety of positions: some sat down, some stood with outstretched arms, some were simply lost in thought. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky are depicted very funny: “with rushing movements of their hands towards each other, gaping mouths and bulging eyes at each other.” The hour of reckoning for all wrongdoings has come. And everyone understands this. After all, each of the officials had sins, such as: bribery, lack of control over the city, unrest in institutions. But the culprits are always punished. And officials could not avoid this fate.

"Silent Stage" is original, interesting ending. It shows all the hopelessness and comicality of the resulting situation.

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The idea of ​​completing the play (the “silent” scene) was born to Gogol immediately after he began working on “The Inspector General” and was never changed again in the process of creating the comedy. Gogol believed that this scene should produce strong impression on the audience.

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Lesson topic: Final lesson on the comedy of N.V. Gogol

"Inspector". Analysis of the “silent” comedy scene.

MKOU "Rodnikovskaya Secondary School"

Chelyabinsk region, Troitsky district

Teacher of Russian language and literature

Beznosova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna.

Lesson objectives:

1. Educational: to help students understand the philosophical significance of not only the ending, but also the entire comedy as a whole through a comprehensive consideration of this scene.

2. Developmental: development of students' analytical skills.

3. Educational: the formation of positive moral orientations.

Type: lesson on consolidating knowledge, skills and abilities.

Technologies: methods problem-based learning, teacher-guided method of work, reproductive.

Preparing students for the lesson:

1. Must know the content of N. V. Gogol’s work “The Inspector General”.

Equipment: computer, projection device, reproduction of K. P. Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii”, poster for “The Inspector General”, reproductions of paintings for the comedy “The Inspector General”.

During the classes:

I. Organizational moment. Start of the lesson.

II. Updating the lesson topic.

Slide 1 (portrait of N.V. Gogol).

1. Teacher's word: The idea of ​​completing the play (“silent scene”) was born to Gogol immediately after he began working on “The Inspector General” and did not change during the process of creating the comedy. Gogol believed that this scene should make a strong impression on the audience, and insisted that the “silent scene” last at least 2-3 minutes. Only at the insistence of the director and actors of the Alexandrinsky Theater, who during the rehearsals of The Inspector General, by the end of the play, were so exhausted and exhausted that they could not withstand the tension of the last scene and fainted, its duration was reduced to one and a half minutes.

Conclusion: Thus, we see that for Gogol the final scene was no less important than all the previous actions of the comedy.

Why did Gogol insist that this scene be so long? (Students make different assumptions.)

They come to the conclusion:

The writer sought the effect of universal understanding: the viewer (reader) must understand that one of the heroes standing on stage is, to some extent, himself.

“Silent scene” is the mayor’s phrase, as if frozen in the petrified figures of the characters: “Why are you laughing? “You’re laughing at yourself!...”

The main question of text analysis is the question of the compositional and semantic feasibility of the “silent scene”.

Why does Gogol introduce this scene, since with the arrival of the gendarme the comedy can be considered over and the curtain can be lowered? But Gogol not only decides to end the comedy this way, but also describes in detail the position of each character on stage and insists on exactly this compositional construction finale (the last phenomenon is the “silent scene”).

When reading (watching in the theater) “The Inspector General”, students feel how, starting from Act IV, the pathos of the play gradually changes - from comic to tragic; tragedy reaches its apogee precisely in the final “silent scene.”

(The message is made by a prepared student.)

Memories of contemporaries about the premiere of “The Inspector General” at the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg:

1. “Laughter from time to time still flew from one end of the hall to the other, but it was some kind of timid laughter that immediately disappeared, there was almost no applause at all; but intense attention, convulsive, intense, followed all the shades of the play, sometimes dead silence showed that what was happening on stage passionately captured the hearts of the audience.”

2. The very tension of the finale, caused by the appearance of the gendarme on stage and conveyed through the static, picture-like but frozen position of the characters, according to Gogol, should evoke in the audience a unique, but very strong feeling- fear, horror.

“Despite... the comical situation of many people... in the end there remains... something monstrously gloomy, some kind of fear of our unrest. This very appearance of the gendarme, who, like some kind of executioner, appears at the door... all this is somehow inexplicably scary!

1. The role of the poster( poster projection).

Slide 2.

Name characteristics“Revizor” posters (time was spent analyzing the poster in the first lesson). /

Student answers:Firstly, the entire city is represented in the poster (the comedy shows representatives of the bureaucratic system of any Russian city), and in a broader sense - all of Russia (it is no coincidence that after the premiere of The Government Inspector, Nicholas I said: “What a play! Everyone enjoyed it, and I more than anyone!” Moreover, the conflict of the comedy itself is social; this is not indicated by only social status heroes, but also the very name of the comedy - “The Inspector General” - a government official); secondly, the only person acting in the comedy, but not indicated in the poster, is the gendarme.

Doesn't this circumstance make the character significant and doesn't it distinguish him in the system of comedy images?

Think about why the gendarme is not included in the poster.

Student messages:

1. Gendarme - representative state power, which seeks to punish the vices of the social bureau of the cratic structure that it itself created (this is indicated by both the main conflict and the intrigue of the comedy).

“It’s not funny that the play can’t end without the government. It will certainly appear, like an inevitable fate in the tragedies of the ancients. - ... Well? There is nothing bad here, God grant that the government always and everywhere hears its calling to be the representative of Providence on earth and that we believe in it, as the ancients believed in the fate that overtook the crime” (N.V. Gogol “Theatrical Travel”) .

1. Gendarme is a messenger of Providence, a higher power more powerful than the highest ranks state system. This is what makes such a strong impression on the heroes of the comedy and gives rise to horror and fear in them (and the audience). Gogol in the “Dénouement” of “The Inspector General” wrote: “Whatever you say, the inspector who is waiting for us at the door of the coffin is terrible.”

Teacher :

In the minds of the author of The Inspector General, the gendarme is a somewhat mystical figure: he appears unexpectedly and out of nowhere, and the words he uttered “strike everyone like thunder; so that the whole group, having suddenly changed their position, remains petrified.” And the real auditor, who sent the gendarme with the news of his arrival, becomes a mystical person; This feeling of mysticism is further enhanced by the fact that the auditor does not appear on stage: just one news about him plunges the characters in the comedy into horror, which is transmitted to the audience

Slide 3 (projecting a photograph of a “silent” scene):

Pay attention to the location of the heroes on the stage: the mayor and the postmaster, since the rest characters represent “a detail in a picture that is outlined with one stroke of the brush and covered with one color” (Gogol): they are just a background, they somehow again and again concentrate the viewer’s attention on the figures (the mayor and the postmaster).

Students note the unusual positions in which they are frozen.

Let us turn to the description of the position of the heroes. “The city is in the middle in the form of a pillar, with outstretched arms and head thrown back.”

Students note that the mayor occupies a central place.

Doesn't the figure of the mayor resemble a cross, five crosses?

Conclusion: the “silent scene” introduces comedy, firstly, biblical motifs, and secondly, the motive of death (compare “the auditor who is waiting for us at the door of the coffin”).

So social conflict comedy receives a philosophical interpretation: the origins of the vices of society are rooted in the spiritual organization of man, and not in the system itself.

Let's determine the location of the postmaster on the stage.

This character, “turned into a question mark” addressed to the audience, stands behind the mayor.

Formulate the question that Gogol addresses to the audience and which receives such an allegorical embodiment on stage. ("Why are you laughing?”)

An appeal to Gogol’s thoughts about K. P. Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii.”

Slide 4 (projection of reproduction).

Student message:The painting was painted by Bryullov in 1833 in Italy, then in 1834 it was brought to St. Petersburg and put on display in the Hermitage from August 12 to 17. She made such a strong impression on Gogol that, under her influence, he wrote the article “The Last Day of Pompeii (painting by Bryullov).”

Pay attention to the landscape that serves as the background and to the location of the human figures.

Name the features of the artist’s pictorial style (the sky and earth, between which there are no boundaries, are designed in brown-red tones; the artist masterfully conveys the horror and fear of people of chaos last day). The thought of the corruption of earthly beauty and the insight into this “ terrible phenomenon“The coming “end of the world” as a whole determined Gogol’s assessment of K. P. Bryullov’s painting. The writer was delighted with the genius of the artist, who was able to convey the horror of the “end of the world” through the image of petrified figures: “We feel,” writes Gogol, “only the terrible situation of the entire crowd, “but we do not see a person in whose face there would be all the horror of the destruction visible to them” (N.V. Gogol “The Last Day of Pompeii (painting by Bryullov).”

Conclusion: The principle of depicting people gripped by the horror of doomsday is transferred by the writer to the last page of “The Inspector General”; the heroes are frozen, petrified, but in this fossilization there is movement - not external, but internal - of the spiritual world of people. Gogol believes that social vices are a kind of projection of the shortcomings of a person’s spiritual world. Therefore, man must first change. Cleansing inner world, according to Gogol, is possible only through tragedy: shock forces a person to be spiritually reborn. In Gogol’s “silent scene,” as well as in Bryullov’s painting, heaven and the sinful earthly world suddenly, in one minute, merge and mix. The displacement of the space of “top” and “bottom” is embodied in the image of a gendarme.

Slide 5 (reproduction of a painting).

Again, please formulate the question that Gogol addresses to the viewer in an “encrypted” form - in allegorical images mayor and postmaster.

“Why are you laughing? “You’re laughing at yourself!...”

(Students offer their own versions of questions.)

We choose one that most accurately, in our opinion, reflects the meaning final scene: “How will you, the viewer (reader), meet the day of judgment?”

Does the real auditor look like Khlestakov or is he the complete opposite of this “official from St. Petersburg”?

Who is the inspector who sent the gendarme - Bread No. 2 or a higher power, providence?

III. Summing up the lesson.

Teacher's word:

There is no clear answer. This ambiguity is due, firstly, to the fact that the inspector himself does not appear on stage, secondly, to the fact that the gendarme - the inspector's messenger - is not stated in the poster, and thirdly, to the fact that the ending to the media is open. I suggest doing an experiment:

Let's try to bring a real auditor onto the stage and imagine how the action of the play will develop after the “silent scene”, if the auditor is a copy of Khlestakov and if he is his complete opposite.

Let us assume that the real auditor is similar to Khlestakov. Then after the “silent scene” the action of the comedy will be repeated from the beginning, with the only difference that instead of Khlestakov the real auditor will act.

If the inspector is providence itself (as indicated by the analysis of the “silent scene”), then the development of the play after the “silent scene” is unpredictable, and the ending, thus, becomes a symbol of the last - doomsday - day of the life of the city.

If the first interpretation of the image of the auditor is accepted as correct, the comedy loses its satirical significance; vices cannot be eradicated, they only change in appearance. The “silent scene” loses its relevance; it can be neglected without harming the overall structure and idea of ​​“The Inspector General”.

IV. Homework: written assignment, answer: “What interpretation of the image of an auditor is significant for Gogol?” Justify your opinion.

R.8. (necessary notes for the lesson)

The main didactic goal of the lesson is the formation of certain skills. The most general structure of a lesson to consolidate what has been learned is as follows:

Examination homework, clarification of directions for updating the studied material;

Reporting the topic, purpose and objectives of the lesson, motivation for learning;

Reproduction of what has been learned and its application under standard conditions;

Transfer of acquired knowledge and its initial application in new or changed conditions in order to develop skills;

Summing up the lesson;

Setting homework.