Gogol
the vices and failings, rather than the merits and virtues, of the commonplace Russian individual; and the characters which revolve around him have been selected for the purpose of demonstrating the national weaknesses and shortcomings.
Gogol set out to enlighten the Russian people, and his method was curiously simple. Of his central character Tchitchikov, in Dead Souls he states, Him I have taken as a type to show forth the vices an
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