Name: Christmas Eve

Genre: Tale

Duration: 10min 21sec

Annotation:

The villagers are getting ready for Christmas night. Chub is expected to visit the clerk at home, who will leave his arrogant beauty daughter Oksana alone. The blacksmith Vakula is waiting for Chub to leave the house to pay a visit to Oksana. He is hopelessly in love with her, but his love is unrequited. He would get the moon out of the sky for her if he could. For her, he was ready for anything.
And in fact, someone actually removed the moon from the sky that night. And none other than the devil himself. He harbored a grudge against the blacksmith, because he painted the devil on the walls of the church, and even so truthfully. The picture showed that the devil has a great lack of sinners who are destined to go to him, to hell. The devil wanted to destroy the plans of the villagers and stole the light that the moon gave. He hoped that Chub would stay at home, thereby preventing Vakula from spending that evening with his beloved Oksana. And this story will tell what can happen when the devil and people interfere in each other's affairs.

N.V. Gogol - The night before Christmas. Listen to short audio content online.

Gogol N., fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas"

Genre: mystical story

The main characters of the fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas" and their characteristics

1. Vakula, blacksmith. Strong, loyal, determined, fearless. Simple, but firm.
2. Oksana is beautiful. Windy, frivolous, cheerful, mischievous. She loves to dress up and admire herself.
3. Heck. Hooligan, prankster, rotozey.
4. Solokha. Witch, seductress. Vakula's mother.
5. Head. Thick, imposing.
6. Forelock. Oksana's father Feuds with the blacksmith, goes to Solokha.
7. Deacon. A frivolous minister of the church.
8. Pot-bellied Patsyuk. Zaporozhets. On a short leg with evil spirits.

Plan for retelling the tale "The Night Before Christmas"

1. Damn steals the month
2. The forelock and godfather go to the deacon.
3. Vakula and Oksana in the hut
4. Damn makes a blizzard
5. Vakula bludgeons Chub
6. Two promises
7. Solokha's guests
8. Vakula carries bags
9. Farewell to Oksana
10. At the Pot-bellied Patsyuk
11. saddled devil
12. The fate of the abandoned bags
13. Vakula and the Cossacks
14. Vakula in the palace
15. Tsar's coats
16. Lament for Vakula
17. Oksana falls in love
18. Return of the blacksmith
19. Gifts and Punishment
20. Chub's consent
21. Praise of the Bishop.

The shortest content of the fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas" for the reader's diary in 6 sentences

1. Vakula promises to get Oksana the slippers that the queen wears.
2. Solokha hides her guests in sacks, and Vakula drops the sacks on the road.
3. Pot-bellied Patsyuk points Vakula to the devil, and Vakula flies on the devil to Petersburg.
4. Vakula with the Cossacks goes to the queen and asks her for slippers.
5. The queen gives Vakula expensive shoes and the devil delivers the blacksmith to Dikanka.
6. Vakula gives Oksana the slippers, reconciles with Chub, who gives him Oksana as his wife.

The main idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe tale "The Night Before Christmas"
In any situation, you must first of all rely on yourself.

What does the tale "The Night Before Christmas" teach?
The fairy tale teaches not to be afraid of evil spirits, but to always find control over it. It teaches you not to abuse your power over another person. Teaches courage, determination, the ability to overcome obstacles. It teaches to be able not only to work, but also to have fun.

Review of the fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas"
I really liked this mystical story, full of sparkling humor. I especially liked two heroes - the strong and courageous Vakula, who was ready to get a star from the sky for his beloved, and the beautiful Oksana, who also loved her Vakula very much, although she made fun of him. There is a lot of mysticism in the story, but this makes it even more interesting.

Proverbs to the fairy tale "The night before Christmas"
The devil is not as scary as he is painted.
Dark deeds are afraid of the light.
Do not judge by clothes, look at deeds.
Beauty until the evening, and kindness forever.
Darlings scold, only amuse themselves.

Read the summary, a brief retelling of the tale "The Night Before Christmas"
The last day before Christmas passed and evening came. It was very cold. From the chimney of one hut, along with smoke, a witch rose. She began to fly across the sky and collect stars in her sleeve. When there were three or four stars left, a devil appeared from the other side of the sky, who had the last night left to walk around the world.
The devil crept up to the moon and tried to grab it, but burned himself. He ran around, finally managed to grab the moon and hide it in his pocket.
Why did the devil decide to do this?
He wanted to annoy the blacksmith Vakula, who drew the devil being expelled from hell by Saint Peter on the day of the Last Judgment. The devil hoped that Chub would not dare to go to the clerk at kutya on such a night, and therefore Vakula would not be able to come to Chub's daughter, Oksana, because the blacksmith was not on good terms with Chub.
So, the devil stole the moon and it became very dark. The witch screamed and the devil began to roll up to her and whisper compliments.
Chub went out into the yard with his godfather, looking forward to a binge at the deacon's. Then he saw that there was no moon and it was completely dark outside. It was strange and Chub asked his godfather what to do. Kum offered to return home, and then Chub decided to go to the deacon. He himself was annoyed at his decision, but the word was spoken.
At this time, his daughter Oksana began to dress up in front of a mirror. She was the first beauty of the farm, and as capricious as she was sweet. She was not yet seventeen years old. Oksana stood in front of the mirror and talked aloud about how wonderful she was, and how happy her husband would be.
Vakula quietly entered the hut and listened to Oksana's boasting. The girl continued to praise herself, but suddenly turned and noticed Vakula. However, she was not embarrassed. The blacksmith sat down nearby, and the young people began to chat about all sorts of nonsense, and the blacksmith emphasized his love in every possible way. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Oksana was waiting for her friends and couples, and therefore Vakula went to open the door, intending to crush the sides of anyone who dared to interfere with him.
***
Meanwhile, the devil and the witch froze and decided to go down to the hut. Solokha, Vakula's mother, carefully looked into the room and saw that it was empty. She was about forty years old, but she knew how to charm any Cossack. The rich Chub was especially fond of her, and it was she who constantly quarreled with Chub and Vakula so that her son would not cross her path with Chub's daughter Oksana.
The devil, going down into the hut, noticed Chub and godfather. He swept the snow and began a strong snowstorm. Only after that, the devil went down to Solokha's house, confident that now Chub would return home.
***
Kum and Chub really got lost in a snowstorm and decided to go back. But the godfather found a tavern and stayed there. Chub, alone, barely found the hut, which seemed to him his own, and began to knock loudly.
The blacksmith Vakula opened the door and inquired who had come. Chub was frightened and decided that he had made a mistake with the hut. He began to pretend that he had just come in to carol, and Vakula thumped him sensitively.
Then Chub realized that Solokha was alone at home. He decided to visit his sweetheart.
***
Meanwhile, the moon fell out of the devil's pocket and shone again in the sky. The youth went for a walk. Revelers also dropped in to Oksana. In jokes and laughter, Oksana wished for herself the slippers that the queen herself wears. Vakula promised to get the queen's slippers, and Oksana promised in front of everyone that if the blacksmith did this, she would marry him.
The boys and girls went caroling. The blacksmith walked with everyone, but he himself did not have fun.
At this time, the devil basked in the arms of Solokha. Suddenly there was a knock. It came Head. The devil quickly hid in a bag.
The head had barely had time to drink a glass of vodka, when there was another knock and the voice of the deacon was heard. The head began to ask to hide it, and Solokha, pouring coal out of the bag, planted her head in it.
The clerk entered and began to flirt with Solokha, touching various parts of her body. But as soon as he parted, a knock was heard again and Chub's voice was heard.
The clerk ran around the room and began to ask to be hidden. Solokha had to put the clerk in another sack. Chub entered and had just started talking when a knock was heard and Vakula's menacing voice demanded to open the door.
Everyone has already run here. Solokha, forgetting herself, stuffed Chub into a sack, where the deacon was already sitting. The clerk did not even dare to utter a word.
While Solokha went out to talk with the Cossack Sverbyguz, Vakula looked around the room and noticed the bags. He decided to take them to the smithy and with difficulty heaved the sacks on his back, complaining that he was completely weak from love. He also grabbed a small bag with the devil, deciding that his tool was in there.
Fun was in full swing on the street, the boys and girls had fun and sang songs. Vakula thought Oksana's voice and he, throwing large bags on the road, ran to the crowd with a small bag.
Oksana greeted Vakula with a mockery and ran away. Vakula was dumbfounded, but suddenly made a decision. He caught up with Oksana and resolutely said goodbye to her. Then the blacksmith ran away.
The boys and girls decided that Vakula had lost his mind and would now hang himself.

Meanwhile, Vakula, having run through the frost, came to his senses and decided to ask the Pot-bellied Patsyuk for advice, about whom there were rumors that he knew all the devils. He went to the Cossack.
There were various rumors about Pot-bellied Patsyuk, he was famous as a healer.
Vakula entered Patsyuka and saw that he was sitting in front of a bowl of dumplings and, with his head bowed, was slurping the goo, grabbing the dumplings as well. Vakula thought that Patsyuk was lazier than Chub, and politely turned to him, saying that Patsyuk was related to the devil. Frightened by his words, Vakula tried to correct himself and briefly outlined his case. He said he needed the devil.
Patsyuk indifferently sent Vakula to hell, and the blacksmith asked at least to show him the way. Patsuk said that there was no need to go far, because Vakula had the devil behind him.
The blacksmith did not understand these words. But Patsyuk said nothing more. Bowls with dumplings and sour cream appeared in front of him, and Vakula decided to see how Patsyuk would eat dumplings. And he opened his mouth and looked at the dumplings. And then the dumpling itself rose into the air, dipped in sour cream and went into Patsyuk's mouth.
Vakula ran out of the hut and threw the bag onto the snow. But that's what the hell was waiting for. He jumped out of the bag, sat on Vakula's neck and began to whisper to him that he would do everything for the blacksmith - and give Oksana money too.
Vakula pretended to agree, grabbed the devil by the tail and made a cross. And then he jumped on the back of the devil and demanded to be taken to St. Petersburg. And with fear I saw how it rises into the sky.
***
At this time, alarmed by Vakula's last words, Oksana decided to let the blacksmith kiss her somehow. Then one of the girls stumbled upon the bags forgotten by the blacksmith. The girls tried to lift them, but realized that they could not do it. Then they ran after the sled.
At this time, the godfather was returning from the tavern. He also saw the bags and tried to pick them up. The big bag seemed too heavy for him. But then the weaver Ostap appeared and the godfather asked him to help carry the bag home. Kum hoped that his wife was not there and she was walking along with other women.
But the wife was at home. Seeing a huge bag, she was delighted, deciding that the godfather and the weaver had caroled so much. The godfather and the weaver tried to defend the booty, but the godfather's wife, threatening the Cossacks with a poker, broke through to the bag and untied it. From there, smiling, Chub crawled out. He said that he played a great prank on everyone, but added that a pig was sitting in a bag under him.
However, instead of a pig, a clerk crawled out of the bag, and Chub laughed merrily. He said that in Solokha's house there were a lot of bags, and that means there were two people in each. Ah yes Solokha!
***
At this time, the girls brought the sled and were a little upset that the bag was left alone. They took the bag home and suddenly someone sneezed in it. The girls screamed in fear and then Chub entered. When he heard about the blacksmith's bag, he laughed and untied it. The head came out of the bag. The bewildered Chub asked him about the boots, and the Head said goodbye and left.
Chub looked in the bag for the second person, but the bag was empty.
***
At this time, the devil took Vakula to Petersburg and the blacksmith demanded that he accompany him to the Cossacks, who in the autumn passed through the farm, on the way to the queen.
The devil did this and hid in the blacksmith's pocket.
The blacksmith came in and said hello. They recognized him, and they remembered that he notably paints pictures. They talked and the Cossacks began to gather to the queen. Vakula began to ask to take him, and the Cossacks agreed. They dressed Vakula and took him to the palace.
The blacksmith was shy looking at the beautiful staircase and the brilliant courtiers. A man in a hetman's uniform approached the Cossacks and reminded them how to talk to the queen. It was Potemkin.
The Cossacks entered the hall and the blacksmith was blinded by the brilliance. Suddenly the Cossacks fell to the floor and Vakula fell too. It turned out that the queen had entered. She graciously turned to the Cossacks and began to ask what they were asking for.
Here Vakula was the first to throw himself at the queen's feet again and began to ask her to tell what material her slippers were made of. The queen laughed, Potemkin smiled too. The queen ordered to bring the most expensive shoes and gave them to the blacksmith.
While she began to question the Cossacks about this and that, and the blacksmith quietly stepped aside and demanded that the devil take him out. Immediately he was at the city barrier.
***
On the farm, a weaver and a woman with a purple nose argued. The weaver screamed that the blacksmith had drowned himself, and the woman with the purple nose that he had hanged himself. At last the woman with the violet nose shouted that the deacon was visiting the weaver. Then the deacon ran up and spat in the weaver's eyes. The weaver spat on the Head, who wiped himself off and began to yearn for the blacksmith, an excellent artist and great craftsman.
Oksana was embarrassed and went home. All night long she thought of the blacksmith, and by morning she was head over heels in love with him.
In the morning everyone went to church and the friends noticed that Oksana was not herself.
Well, where is the blacksmith?
***
The devil brought the blacksmith back to the very dawn. The blacksmith gave him a few lashes in parting and the devil ran away. He was fooled.
And the blacksmith slept until noon. Then he dressed in a Zaporozhian dress, took out a beautiful and expensive hat, bought somehow in Poltava, added a beautiful new belt, and went to Chub.
He did not know what he should be more surprised at, the resurrection of the blacksmith or the fact that he himself had come to him. And the blacksmith took out a hat, a belt and put the gifts in front of Chub. Then he handed Chub a whip and asked him to whip him.
Chub sluggishly hit the blacksmith several times and asked what he wanted. The blacksmith asked for Oksana's hand. Chub remembered Solokha's deceit, looked at the gifts and said that the blacksmith should send matchmakers.
Oksana came in and screamed. the blacksmith handed her the slippers that the queen wore, and Oksana said that she didn’t need any slippers, that she was already ...
Vakula kissed Oksana and she had never been so beautiful.
***
Once a bishop was passing through Dikanka and, seeing a beautiful painted hut, he asked a woman with a baby whose hut it was. Oksana, and it was she, replied that the blacksmith Vakula. The bishop praised the blacksmith. But he praised him even more when he found out that he had painted the entire wing of the church, and on the wall he painted such a nasty devil that everyone spat when passing by.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas"

We present you a summary of the story of N.V. Gogol from the cycle "Yesterday on a farm near Dikanka". As usual, we have prepared for you as many as 2 options summary(retelling) of the story "The Night Before Christmas".

Synopsis for The Night Before Christmas

The story begins with a description of a picture of a Ukrainian farm at night. The last day before Christmas ended, followed by a clear starry night. A witch flies up from the chimney of a hut on a broomstick. She flies through the night sky and collects stars. And at this time, the devil steals the month. He did this because he knew that today Chub was invited by the deacon to kutya, and his beautiful daughter would remain at home, a blacksmith would come to her at that time. It was to this blacksmith that the devil took revenge. This blacksmith, a rather good artist, once painted a picture where St. Peter, on the day of the Last Judgment, casts out an evil spirit from hell. The devil interfered with the blacksmith in every possible way, but the work was completed, the board was brought into the church and built into the wall. Since then, he swore to the devil to take revenge on the blacksmith. Having stolen the month, the devil hoped that Chub would not go anywhere in such darkness, and the blacksmith would not dare to come to Chub's daughter in the presence of his father.

Chub, leaving his hut with Panas at that time, pondered what he should decide: whether to go to the deacon or not. Chub nevertheless decided to go and both godfathers went to the deacon.

Oksana, Chub's daughter, was known as the first beauty on the farm. However, by nature she was capricious and spoiled. The result was a stable interest in her from local gentlemen, but this interest was usually short-lived. Over time, the guys preferred more simple and so spoiled girls. And only the blacksmith Vakula did not leave her alone, even though she treated him no better than the others.

As soon as Chub left, Vakula hurried to his passion. The blacksmith confesses his love to Oksana. However, Oksana, on a whim, only flirts with the young man and even frankly mocks him. At this time, there was a knock on the door and Vakula, ahead of Oksana, hurries to open the door.

At the same time, the witch was bored in the sky. She got tired of flying and went home. The devil flies after her. Here it is worth saying that the witch is the mother of Vakula. Her name is Solokha, she is about 40 years old, her appearance was neither bad nor good. However, Solokha was so able to charm the Cossacks that many went to her, without even suspecting that they had rivals. At the same time, she showed the greatest respect to the prosperous Chub, as she wanted to marry him to herself and take his wealth into her hands. The insidious Solokha was afraid that her son Vakul would get ahead of her, marrying Oksana before she could ring Chub. Yes, to get ahead of her own son on the way to Chub's wealth, she constantly quarrels them among themselves.

Following Solokha, the devil noticed that Chub had left the house after all. The devil began to break the snow to start a blizzard. So he wanted to force Chub to return home. But due to the fact that the blizzard was too strong, Chub and his godfather could not find the hut for a long time. Finally Chubu seems to have managed to find his home. He knocked on the window, but in response he heard the voice of Vakula. Chub thought that he had wandered in the wrong place, but he was in no hurry to leave either. Chub became extremely interested - whose house is this and to whom the blacksmith goes, Chub pretended to be caroling, said that he had come to carol, but Vakula kicked him out with a strong blow to the back. Beaten, Chub went to Solokha.

When the devil flew from the chimney of Solokha's hut and back, a month fell out of him and rose to the sky, which lit up everything around. The boys and girls came out to carol. Friends also came to Oksana. On one of the girls, she saw nice little laces, and she wanted the same ones. Vakula promised Oksana that he would get the best for her. Oksana swore that if Vakula brought her the caps worn by the queen herself, she would marry him.

At this time, the devil loosened up at Solokha, kissed her hands, but then there was a knock and the voice of the Head. The devil could only hide in one of the bags of coal that Vakula had left near the entrance. The head said that he was going to the deacon, and when a snowstorm began, he decided to turn to Solokha. Again there was a knock. This is the deacon. The head asks to hide it, Solokha hides it in the largest bag of coal. The clerk came in and said that since no one came to him because of the snowstorm, he decided to celebrate at Solokha's. Again there was a knock. Chub came this time. Solokha hides the clerk in another coal sack. Chub came to Solokha to drink vodka, as he was completely frozen. Another knock on the door and a voice: "Open." Vakula came home. Solokha, frightened by the appearance of her son, pointed out to Chub the sack in which the deacon was already sitting. Chub climbed into it, the clerk could not even give out his presence with a cough, and therefore suffered severe pain. Vakula, entering the hut, first collapsed onto a bench, but then noticed that he had not removed the sacks of coal. He decided to take them out. Thinking about Oksana, the blacksmith went out into the street. There was a celebration going on. The blacksmith, hearing Oksana's voice among the walking voices, threw down the heavy sacks and, leaving only a small sack in his hands, went into the crowd. Oksana again laughed at poor Vakula. There was no more strength to endure, and Vakula decided to drown himself. He ran with all his might to the edge of the village. But halfway through he changed his mind and decided to go to pot-bellied Patsyuk to ask for advice. That Patsyuk was a healer, as soon as he whispered a few words, the ailment was taken away as if by hand. Vakula asks Patsyuk to show him the way to hell, since he sees no other way to help in his case with Oksana. But Patsyuk replies that "he does not need to go far, who has the devil behind him." Vakula, frightened, left the hut. And the devil is right there: he began to whisper to the blacksmith that he would help him with Oksana, only the contract had to be signed. Vakula grabbed the devil by the tail, sat on him and raised his hand for the sign of the cross. The devil prayed that he would do everything, just do not put signs on him. Vakula ordered to deliver him directly to the queen in St. Petersburg.

Oksana thought for a long time about what she had done with the blacksmith. What if he falls in love with someone else? But then the fears passed, and she was already laughing with her friends. Oksana's friends found the bags that Vakula had left and decided that it was he who caroled so much. But since there was no strength to lift them, everyone ran after the sled. At this time, the thin godfather came out of the closet and saw the bags, also deciding that someone was caroling. He called the weaver for help, because. It was too much for him to carry the bag home by himself. At home, a fight broke out between them and the godfather's wife because of the bag. The fight was stopped by the sudden appearance of Chub from the bag. The clerk followed him out. Chub marvels at the cunning of Solokha, who hides her suitors in sacks.

The girls, having returned, found only one bag, but decided that they had enough of what they had. They threw the bag onto the sled and took it to Oksana's hut. The girls began to untie the bag and found that someone was sitting there. At this time, Chub entered the house. He immediately realized that this bag was also from Solokha's house. The head came out of the bag. Everyone was confused. The head, having jammed the drops, left. And Chub poured out his annoyance on Solokha for a long time.

Meanwhile, Vakula reached Petersburg on the line. He ordered the devil to lead him to the Cossacks, who were passing through Dikanka in the autumn and were now in the city. The Cossacks immediately recognized the blacksmith. He asks them to take them to the queen. The Cossacks refused for a long time, but then, not without the intervention of the devil, they agreed. Vakula put on the same dress as they had, and everyone went to the palace. There, the blacksmith, turning to the queen, asked for the same slippers as on her. The queen ordered to bring the most expensive, embroidered with gold. Vakula marveled at the beauty of the little boots, making a compliment to the queen about the slenderness of her legs along the way. After that, the blacksmith ordered the devil to take him out of the palace, and suddenly found himself behind a barrier.

In the meantime, a rumor spread around the farm that the blacksmith either drowned himself or hanged himself. Oksana, having learned such news, could not sleep all night, she kept thinking about Vakula, “and by morning she fell head over heels in love with the blacksmith.”

In the morning, the devil returned Vakula to his hut. Instead of gratitude, Vakula hit the devil on the back with a twig three times. The devil took off running. Vakula went home, collapsed on a bench and slept until dinner. Then he put on a festive outfit, took the slippers and went to Chub. Chub was surprised by the appearance of the blacksmith, whom everyone thought was dead. Vakula asks for Oksana's hand, shows what kind of slippers he brought, Chub agrees. But now Oksana no longer needed slippers. The blacksmith himself became her main object of interest.

The story ends with Vakula and Oksana getting married according to church customs.

Summary (retelling) of the story The Night Before Christmas - option number 2

A clear frosty night covers the farm after the day before Christmas. The girls and lads have not yet come out to carol. This allows the local witch, Solokha, to fly unnoticed into the sky behind the stars. Toward Solokha, the devil flies, to whom "the last night was left to stagger around the white world." Having stolen the month, the devil hides it in his pocket.

The devil hopes that the darkness will not let the wealthy Cossack Chub, invited to the clerk at kutya, leave the house, and the blacksmith Vakula, hated by the devil (who painted a picture of the Last Judgment and the shamed devil on the church wall) will not dare to come to Chubova's daughter Oksana.

While building chickens for the witch, Chub and his godfather, who left the hut, do not decide whether to go to the deacon, where a pleasant company will gather for varenukha, or, in view of such darkness, return home, and they leave. At home, Chub leaves her beautiful daughter Oksana, dressing up in front of a mirror, for which her blacksmith, Vakula, finds her.

Here it must be briefly said that Vakula is the son of the witch Solokha and he is in love with Oksana. The spoiled beauty is very nasty in character. Her beauty attracts couples, but no one builds a serious relationship with her. Very quickly, the guys, having had enough of an insatiable and materialistic girl, prefer more modest girls to her. And only Vakula selflessly and blindly loves a daring beast. The harmful and insidious beauty taunts him, not at all touched by his tender feelings. The offended blacksmith goes to unlock the door, on which Chub knocks, having lost his way, deciding to return home on the occasion of the blizzard raised by the devil. But the blacksmith's voice leads him to think that he did not end up in his own hut (but in a similar, lame Levchenko, to whose young wife the blacksmith probably came), Chub changes his voice, and an angry Vakula, poking him, drives out the disguised Cossack . The beaten Chub, realizing that the blacksmith had obviously left his own house, goes to his mother, Solokha. Solokha, who was a witch, returned from her journey, and the devil flew in with her, dropping a month in the chimney.

It became light, the blizzard subsided, and crowds of carolers poured into the streets. The girls run to Oksana, and, noticing new laces embroidered with gold on one of them, Oksana declares that she will marry Vakula if only he gets her the laces "which the queen wears." In the meantime, the devil, who has become mellow at Solokha's, is frightened away by the head, who has not gone to the clerk at the kutya. The devil quickly gets into one of the bags left in the middle of the hut by the blacksmith, but the head soon has to climb into the other, as the clerk knocks on Solokha. Praising the virtues of the incomparable Solokha, the clerk is forced to climb into the third bag, since Chub appears. However, Chub also climbs there, avoiding a meeting with the returned Vakula. While Solokha is explaining in the garden with the Cossack Sverbyguz, who came after him, Vakula carries away the sacks thrown in the middle of the hut, and, saddened by the quarrel with Oksana, does not notice their weight. On the street he is surrounded by a crowd of carolers, and here Oksana repeats her mocking condition. Throwing all but the smallest sacks in the middle of the road, Vakula runs, and rumors are already creeping after him that he has either been injured in the mind, or has gone crazy.

Vakula comes to the Cossack Pot-bellied Patsyuk, who, as they say, is "a little like the devil." Having caught the owner eating dumplings, and then dumplings, which themselves climbed into Patsyuk's mouth, Vakula timidly asks for directions to hell, relying on his help in his misfortune. Having received a vague answer that the devil is behind his shoulders, Vakula runs from a quick dumpling that is crawling into his mouth. Anticipating easy prey, the devil jumps out of the bag and, sitting on the blacksmith's neck, promises him Oksana that very night. Vakula, cheating, grabs the devil by the tail and tells him to take himself "to St. Petersburg, straight to the queen."

Having found Kuznetsov's bags about that time, the girls want to take them to Oksana to see what Vakula caroled. They follow the sledge, and Chubov's godfather, having called for help from the weaver, drags one of the sacks into his hut. There, for the obscure but seductive contents of the bag, a fight takes place with the godfather's wife. Chub and the clerk are in the bag. When Chub, returning home, finds a head in the second bag, his disposition towards Solokha is greatly reduced.

The blacksmith, having galloped to St. Petersburg, comes to the Cossacks, who are passing through Dikanka in the autumn, and, pressing the devil in his pocket, seeks to be taken to the tsarina's reception. Marveling at the luxury of the palace and the wonderful paintings on the walls, the blacksmith finds himself in front of the queen, and when she asks the Cossacks who came to ask for their Sich, “what do you want?”, the blacksmith asks her for her royal shoes. Touched by such innocence, Catherine draws attention to this passage of Fonvizin standing at a distance, and Vakula gives shoes, having received which he briefly considers it good to go home.

Meanwhile, the Dikan women in the middle of the street are arguing about exactly how Vakula committed suicide. Rumors about this disturb Oksana's soul, she does not sleep well at night, and when she does not find a devout blacksmith in the church in the morning, she is ready to cry. The blacksmith simply overslept Matins and Mass, and waking up, takes out a new hat and belt from the chest and goes to Chub for matchmaking. Chub, although offended by Solokha's treachery, but still "oiled" with chic gifts, agrees. He is echoed by Oksana, who has entered, ready to marry the blacksmith "and without the slippers." Now the family Vakula painted his hut with paints, and in the church he painted a devil, but “so nasty that everyone spat when they passed by.”

Lesson: Heroes of N.V. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas"

Goals: 1) help students to penetrate the world of N.V. Gogol on the example of the story being studied; 2) to form the ability to characterize literary characters, to conduct an independent study of the text, to develop in students the ability to analyze and summarize the read text; 3) teach the skills of working in groups, defend your mini-project; 4) create a situation of success.

Equipment: illustrations for the story, lesson presentation

During the classes

1. Organizational moment. Announcement of the topic and objectives of the lesson.

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2. Word of the teacher. Good afternoon guys! Today we will continue to study the story of N.V. Gogol "The Night Before Christmas". The theme of our lesson is "The main characters of the story." You will continue the work you have started in groups, tell us about the hero you have chosen for analysis, i.e. give him a description. And, of course, we will continue to enjoy the amazing world of Gogol's prose, a world in which reality and fantasy are miraculously intertwined. The result of our work will be an express newspaper that you will release by the end of the lesson. You remember that in this book the Ukrainian people appeared before the reader, the bearer of noble and high aspirations, with their past and present, original and colorful speech, interspersed with proverbs and sayings. It is no coincidence that many critics and writers admired the extraordinary brilliance of Gogol's style. You can be convinced of this if you immerse yourself in the text of the story "The Night Before Christmas", about which the critic V. G. Belinsky wrote: "The Night Before Christmas" is a complete picture of the domestic life of the people, their little joys, their little sorrows - in a word, here all the poetry of his life."

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3. Quiz.

Let's check if you managed to immerse yourself in the text of the story and turn out to be observant readers. Representatives of each team in turn go to the board and remove three stars. On each star is the number of the question that the team has to answer. So the first team...

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1) What was the name of the village where Gogol's character Vakula lived? (Dikanka)

2) Who was the witch Solokha related to the blacksmith Vakula? (Mother)

3) what was Vakula by profession from the story “Night ....”? (Blacksmith)

4) Name the "vehicle" of the blacksmith Vakula during the flight to St. Petersburg. (Heck)

5) What is the name of Oksana's father in Gogol's story "Night ..."? (Korny Chub)

6) The official for whom the blacksmith Vakula painted a wooden fence in Poltava. (centurion)

7) A household item in which good was kept. (Box)

8) What did the devil hide in his pocket? (Month)

9) The person who was the second to visit Solokha. (Deac)

10) Why did Vakula go to the queen? (Behind the slippers)

11) Songs that were sung on Christmas Eve (Carols)

12) What does the expression "build chickens" mean? (Care)

Well done!

4. Guess the hero.

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V. G. Belinsky noted: “Gogol does not write, but draws; his images breathe the colors of reality. You see and hear them."

Therefore, I think you can easily recognize the heroes of the story by their description.

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1) From the front, he was completely German, from behind he was a real provincial attorney in uniform ... A narrow muzzle, thin legs. (Heck)

2) A lean, tall man with an overgrown beard in a short sheepskin coat. (Qom)

3) A fresh face, alive in childhood youth, with brilliant black eyes and an inexpressibly pleasant smile. (Oksana)

4) She was neither good nor bad in herself. However, she knew how to enchant the most sedate Cossacks (Solokha)

5) Sly, with thin fingers, his other half made the narrowest of his thick braids (Diak)

6) Despite a small increase in width, it was quite weighty (Patsyuk)

You recognized all the characters that we met in this story. Let's try to characterize the main ones.

5. Protection of projects.

In the last lesson, you started work on compiling the characteristics of the main characters. Each group had to prepare a story about their hero, i.e., characterize him according to the following plan:

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1. Introduction (the role of the hero in the story)

2. Description of the appearance of the hero.

3. Character traits of the hero (with proof)

So, listen to the performance of the first group.

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Solokha.

1.Introduction.

One of the heroes of N.V. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" is Solokha.

2.Description of appearance

“The mother of the blacksmith Vakula was no more than forty years old. She was neither good nor bad. It's hard to be good in such years. However, she was so able to enchant the most sedate Cossacks ... "

3. Character traits

1) In the story, Solokha is shown as a negative character. She appears unexpectedly

“Here, through the chimney of one hut, smoke fell in clubs and went in a cloud across the sky. And along with the smoke rose a witch riding a broom."

2) The witch, just like the devil, can turn into anyone and do the impossible for a person

“The witch herself felt that it was cold, despite the fact that she was warmly dressed; and therefore, raising her hands up, she left her leg and, having brought herself into such a position as a man flying on skates, without moving a single joint, she descended through the air, as if along an icy sloping mountain, and straight into the pipe.

“... in some places the old women began to say ... that Solokha was definitely a witch; that the lad Kizyakolupenko saw behind her a tail the size of no more than a woman's spindle; that she ran across the road like a black cat the Thursday before last; that a pig once ran up to the priest, crowed like a rooster, put Father Kondrat's hat on his head and ran back.

Solokha is a witch. She is the mother of the main character of the story, Vakula. In life, she knew how to charm the most sedate Cossacks. She knew how to deal with them skillfully. “None of them came to mind. That he has rivals.

4) She was a good hostess: "... how not to go to Solokha, not to eat fatty dumplings with sour cream and not to chat in a warm hut with a talkative and obsequious hostess." "Solokha bowed to everyone, and everyone thought that she bowed to him alone." But she was the friendliest of all with the Cossack Chub, because “Chub’s chests had a lot of linen, zhupans and old kuntush with gold galloons ... In the garden, in addition to poppy seeds, cabbage, sunflowers, two more fields of tobacco were sown every year. Solokha found it not superfluous to attach all this to her household. Thinking in advance about what order it will take. When it passes into her hands ... "

5) For her own benefit, she was ready to harm even her son: “she resorted to the usual means of forty-year-old gossips: to quarrel Chub with a blacksmith as often as possible”

Thanks to her resourcefulness (sharpness), she managed to put her gentlemen in bags: “Here you are! Oh yes Solokha! Put them in a sack ... then I see she has a hut full of sacks ... now I know everything: she had two people in each sack, I thought that she was only for me ... So much for Solokha!

Conclusion

In the image of Solokha, N.V. Gogol showed human vices: greed, deceit, treason. We see that everything bad will still be revealed and then the person looks ridiculous and stupid.

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Heck

1. Introduction

N.V. Gogol uses folklore and folk beliefs in his story. The writer draws the image of the devil, which in Slavic mythology is an evil spirit.

2.Description of appearance“Suddenly, another speck appeared on the other side, increased, began to stretch, and there was no longer a speck ... The front was completely German: narrow, constantly spinning and sniffing everything that came across, the muzzle ended, like our pigs, with a round patch, the legs were so thin that if Yareskov's head had such, he would have broken them in the first Cossack. But on the other hand, behind him he is a real provincial attorney in uniform, because his tail hung as sharp and long as the coattails of the uniform today; only by the goat's beard under the muzzle, by the small horns sticking out on his head, and that he was not all whiter than a chimney sweep, could one guess that he was not a German and not a provincial attorney, but simply a devil ... "

3. Traits of character and his actions.

1) The devil is shown by Gogol as a cunning prankster. “Meanwhile, the devil crept slowly towards the moon and was already stretching out his hand to grab it, but suddenly pulled it back, as if burned, sucked his fingers, dangled his foot and ran from the other side and jumped back again and pulled his hand away. However, despite all the failures, the cunning devil did not leave his pranks. Running up, he suddenly grabbed the moon with both hands, grimacing and blowing, throwing it from one hand to the other, like a peasant who takes out a fire for his cradle with his bare hands; finally hurriedly put it in his pocket and, as if nothing had happened, ran on.

2) “The last night remained for the devil to roam around the wide world and learn the sins of good people.” He wanted to take his anger out on the blacksmith, because he depicted in one of his paintings how the devil is beaten with whips and expelled from hell.

3) The devil has human qualities, so we perceive it as real.

“The witch, seeing herself suddenly in the darkness, cried out. Then the devil, riding up like a small demon, grabbed her by the arm and started to whisper in her ear the same thing that is usually whispered to the entire female race.

He flirts with her as soon as there is a free minute left. “Meanwhile, the devil really grew soft with Solokha: he kissed her hand with such antics, like an assessor at a priest’s, took hold of her heart, groaned and said bluntly that if she did not agree to satisfy his passions and, as usual, reward him, then he was ready for everything, throw himself into the water, and send his soul straight into hell.

4) The devil was very happy that he could take revenge on the blacksmith. “Now the blacksmith has been caught!” - he thought to himself, now I will take out on you, my dear, all your painting and fables, tormented by devils! He tried to persuade the blacksmith, to outwit him.

5) Like all fairy-tale characters, he knows how to transform: he flies through the sky, “the devil flew over the barrier, turned into a horse ...” or “The devil lost weight in one minute and became so small. That easily got into his pocket"

Conclusion

Damn it didn't work. The only thing he thought about was that Vakula would let him go and not baptize him with the sign of the cross. "And so, instead of tricking, seducing and fooling others, the enemy of the human race was himself fooled."

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Fizkultminutka. Let's stop our work and get some rest. Stand up please. Now we will do some exercises.

1- th exercise - sipping. Imagine yourself as the devil. You need to collect as many stars as possible. Right above us we get a star, left, right (3 times)

The next exercise is walking in place. You are Chub and godfather walking through the winter farm to visit Solokha. So we started...

3 exercise - breathing exercises. A strong wind blew. We exhale air. The wind began to lift the snow. Nothing became visible. We closed our eyes. Opened.

4 exercise - squat. Finally, you ended up in Solokha's house. But someone is constantly knocking on the door of her hut. Solokha is forced to hide you in a bag. And for this you need to sit down. So, we do 10 squats.

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Oksana

!.Introduction Oksana - the heroine of the story "The Night Before Christmas" It was she who fell in love with Vakula

2.Description of appearance“Oksana has not yet passed seventeen years, as in almost all the world. And on the other side of Dikanka, and on this Side of Dikanka, there were only speeches about her ... A fresh, lively face in childhood youth with shiny black eyes and an inexpressibly pleasant smile ... "

3. Traits of character and actions

1) Oksana was spoiled and capricious. “Oksana knew and heard everything that was said about her, and was capricious, like a beauty.” She constantly spins in front of the mirror, cannot stop admiring herself: “No, I'm good! Ah, how good! Miracle! What joy I will bring to the one whom I will be the wife! How my husband will admire me!” “Here she sat down on a bench and again looked in the mirror and began to straighten her braids on her head. She looked at her neck, at a new shirt embroidered with silk, and a subtle feeling of self-satisfaction was expressed on her lips, on her fresh cheeks, and lit up in her eyes.

2) Oksana poisons Vakula for the little laces that the queen herself wears, promising to marry him for this.

3) Oksana is capable of compassion. When Vakula "disappeared", Oksana began to worry. That she treated him very harshly. “Only Oksana stood as if not her own: She prayed and did not pray. So many different feelings crowded into her heart, one more annoying than the other, one sadder than the other, that her face expressed nothing but embarrassment; tears trembled in his eyes.

4) Oksana is capable of sincere feelings. She gladly meets Vakula after his return from St. Petersburg. "Not! Not! I don't need cherries! - she said, waving her hands and not taking her eyes off him, - I’m without the slippers ... - Further, she did not finish and blushed.

4. Conclusion Gogol shows us Oksana both as a spoiled beauty and as a person capable of sincere feelings.

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Vakula

1. Introduction The main hero of N.V. Gogol's story “The night before Christmas is the blacksmith Vakula.

2.Description of appearance Gogol described him as "a strong man and a kid anywhere"

3. Traits of character and his actions

1) Vakula was not only a good blacksmith, “In his spare time, the blacksmith was engaged in painting and was known as the best painter in the whole neighborhood ... All the bowls from which the Dikan Cossacks slurped borscht were painted by the blacksmith.” He painted church walls.

2) The main character trait of Vakula was industriousness. If he wants to remind himself, he remembers his deeds. To prove his love for Oksana, he talks about the chest “he put iron on the fitting that he didn’t put on the centurion’s gibberish ... And how it will be painted! ... it will burn like heat”

Vakula is constantly looking for a job. For example, when he came home from Oksana, his eyes were looking to do: “Why are these bags lying here? It's time to get them out of here. Tomorrow is a holiday, and there is still all sorts of rubbish in the hut. Take them to the blacksmith!

3) Vakula loves Oksana very much, he is ready for a lot for her. Vakula says: “I don’t want expensive stones, or a golden blacksmith, or your entire kingdom. Give me better my Oksana"

He saddled the devil and went to Petersburg to see what the princess's little boots were made of. He shows courage: “At first it seemed terrible to Vakula when he rose from the ground to such a height that he could not see anything below ... however, a little later he took courage and already began to make fun of the devil”

4) Vakula knew how to appreciate beauty. Once in the palace, he exclaims: “What a staircase! - the blacksmith whispered to himself, - it's a pity to trample underfoot. What decorations! .. My God! What a railing! What job! Here one piece of iron costs fifty rubles! .. What a picture! What a wonderful painting! - he reasoned, - here, it seems, he speaks! It seems to be alive!.. And the colors! My God, what colors!”

Conclusion

Describing the image of the blacksmith Vakula, Gogol wanted to tell us that honesty, hard work, loyalty can always defeat evil, that a person with such qualities will be happy.

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6. Brief description of the heroes.

Well done! Please note: each group has cards on the tables. You have to select the appropriate characters for the indicated hero (and this will not be the hero to whom you gave a description) and write down the qualities of the heroes.

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For example, Patsyuk - dumplings, dumplings. Gluttony, laziness.

(Independent work of students)

Read out your answers. (Answer cards are glued to a sheet of express newspaper)

Oksana - a mirror, cherevichki. Pride, selfishness, selfishness.

Vakula - an icon, a painted hut, a pen in the royal palace. Mastery, purity of soul, love for beauty, fidelity in love, faith in God.

Solokha is a broom. Ingenuity, resourcefulness, greed.

Damn it's a month. Cunning, vindictiveness.

7. The result of the lesson.

Gogol in his story managed to jokingly talk about the customs of the Ukrainian people, while he skillfully mixed fantasy and reality. The action takes place both on earth and in the sky. Devils and witches fly in the sky, plotting intrigues to the detriment of people. On earth, lovers unite, good triumphs.

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What can be the conclusion? Where is beauty happening? What forces are winning?

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(Everything beautiful is created on earth. Justice must triumph here. It is here that we see the victory of the earthly human principle.)

8. Homework: with. 214, questions 6, 7, 9.

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As you remember, the story "The Night Before Christmas" is included in the collection "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". In 2011, this book celebrates its 180th anniversary.

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9. Mini essay“What does N.V. Gogol’s story “The Night Before Christmas” teach us?

(Students work in groups, write down the answer on a special form, which, after reading, is glued to the newspaper)

Thank you very much everyone for your work. I think that today every group deserves excellent marks.

In the story of N.V. Gogol's "The Night Before Christmas" the devil appears before the reader, first of all, as the embodiment of evil and deceit. Being a negative hero, at the same time, he involuntarily causes laughter with many of his tricks.

Gogol describes the appearance of the devil, comparing him now with a German, because of the "narrow, constantly twirling and sniffing everything" muzzle, then with the provincial attorney, because of the "sharp and long, like uniform coattails" tail. However, by thin legs, a patch, a goatee and horns, it becomes clear that "he is not a German or a provincial attorney, but simply a devil."

The author intentionally endowed the devil with the qualities inherent in man: he is cunning and witty, inventive and dexterous, but also cowardly and vengeful. Due to its similarity with ordinary people, the devil seems to us to be a more real being than just a fairy-tale character. But the hero is also not without a magical gift, characteristic of fairy tales: either he transforms into a horse, then he suddenly becomes so small that he can easily fit into his pocket.

The main goal of the evil one is revenge on the blacksmith Vakula, who, having painted a picture in the church depicting St. Peter on the Day of the Last Judgment, doomed evil spirits to exile from hell. Vakula has tender feelings for Oksana, a very beautiful girl, the daughter of a wealthy Cossack Chub. On the night before Christmas, Chub was supposed to go to the clerk at kutya. The devil, knowing this, steals a month from the sky, hoping that because of the impenetrable darkness, Chub will change his mind about visiting the deacon halfway through the journey and return home, where he will find Vakula.

The Cossack did not like the blacksmith and did not approve of his love for Oksana, which means that he could not allow them to get married. The cunning devil hoped that Vakula, although he was very pious, would decide to commit suicide, but his expectations were not justified. On the contrary, whatever the devil came up with, everything turned against him. At first he ended up in a small bag, in which he sat for a long time, hiding from Solokha's many lovers. Then, discovered by the hated blacksmith, he was forced to carry him on his own back from Dikanka to St. Petersburg and back in order to beg the tsarina for laces for the capricious daughter of Chub. And finally, as a "gratitude", the devil receives three powerful blows with a twig from Vakula. So, instead of causing trouble to others, the hero harms himself.

The devil plays a very important role in the work: with the help of this image, Gogol shows that evil, no matter what abilities it possesses, will always be punished according to its deserts.

Option 2

Nikolai Vasilyevich, having written his story, filled it with magic and mythical heroes. One of them he portrays the devil. He shows him in his work as a negative hero, a cunning and insidious prankster, but at the same time causes laughter with his behavior.

The author does not stop comparing his appearance, either with a German because of his small and narrow muzzle, or with a provincial attorney because of a sharp and very long tail. But his thin legs, a flattened ridiculous nose with a snout, as well as small goat-like horns, and a long beard. It becomes clear that he does not look like a provincial attorney or a German, but is just a devil.

Gogol specifically endowed him with the qualities inherent in man, such as:

1. cunning;
2. ingenuity;
3. dexterity;
4. wit;
5. revenge;
6. cowardice.

Due to its resemblance to an ordinary person, the devil appears to the reader as a real being, and not just a mythical and fairy-tale character. But the author does not deprive him of his magical gift.

The goal of the devil is to take revenge on the blacksmith Vakula, and in every possible way tries to harm him and prevent him from marrying the beautiful Oksana, to whom he has feelings. But all his pranks turn against him, and only with his cunning brings trouble and problems to himself, receiving continuous scolding.

Summing up the story of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol "The Night Before Christmas", we can say that it is one of his best and most successful works. Filled with magic and fabulous atmosphere. Due to its unobtrusive atmosphere, it is interesting to read to the end. After so many years from the date of its publication, it has not lost its relevance and demand to this day. She teaches good and, as in any fairy tale, evil wins over good and good deeds. So in Gogol's story, the prankster devil was punished by the kind and positive hero blacksmith Vakula.

Composition about the Devil

The negative character and representative of the dark forces in the story is the Devil. The author endows him with the qualities of an insidious evil person, but with some funny habits and amusing antics. The devil performs not only a negative role in the story: he involuntarily performs good deeds.

The author endows the trait with human character traits so that his motives and actions are clear. He is cunning, cunning and vicious. The devil is very offended by the blacksmith Vakula and tries to take revenge on him, despite the fact that he is the son of Solokha, whom he is trying to court. The devil on the last day before Christmas is trying to harm not only him. He steals the moon and makes a big snowstorm. However, his actions are not without childishness and cause laughter.

The devil is vengeful. Most of all, he tries to harm Vakula, because he painted a picture with the expulsion of the devil. He knows that he is in love with Oksana, the daughter of a wealthy Cossack who does not welcome the blacksmith. The girl also laughs at Vakula, which drives him to despair. The devil steals a month so that Chub will go astray and return home, finding the blacksmith at home. However, his prank hurts other heroes more than Vakula.

The devil hopes that the blacksmith will kill himself out of desperation. However, he himself ends up in a bag that Vakula takes out of the house. Realizing who is hiding in it, the blacksmith uses the power of the devil to carry out his plan and bring Oksana the little boots of Empress Catherine. He fails to deceive the young man, despite his cunning and resourcefulness.

The devil is a little cowardly, so he submits to the courageous and resolute Vakula. Having a dark power in himself, he is still afraid of the blacksmith. It so happened that the devil wanted to get even with him, but he punishes himself with his tricks. Involuntarily, he helps the blacksmith to achieve the location of Oksana, although he wanted to do it in a completely different way.

Usually the devil is portrayed as a dangerous and insidious creature, but Gogol adds comical and charming features to him. At some point, the reader begins to laugh at his tricks and sympathize when he has to obey Vakula and accept lashes from him as gratitude. He is very touching when he tries to woo Solokha. At the same time, the woman herself seduces him, and he humbly succumbs to her charms.

Despite the deceit and vindictiveness of the devil, he does not cause only negative feelings. You want to laugh and make fun of him, and sympathize a little when he falls into the power of the strong Vakula. But still, the devil is a negative character, and in Gogol's story he is a representative of evil, which inevitably defeats good in the person of a young blacksmith.

Sample 4

N.V. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" is one of the best works of the writer, where there are different fairy-tale characters: hell, the witch Solokha, Patsyuk, they fill a more interesting atmosphere. The author endowed this wonderful poem with magic, celebration and humor. It is also impossible not to notice that we are very reminiscent of a fairy tale with a good instructive ending. All people love to watch a movie based on Gogol's poem on New Year's Eve.

In the work, the devil is shown as an evil that wants to ruin everything for everyone and at the same time remain a winner. Gogol shows him as cunning, smart and at the same time funny. It is by his tricks that the devil becomes a negative and comedic hero. The author compares his appearance with a German or a chimney sweep, thin legs, goatee and horns are no different from them. Since he is a fairy-tale hero, he has the ability to fly and transform, which is more interesting for the reader.

It can be seen that the main character is endowed with those qualities that are inherent in a person: cunning, treacherous, intelligent, cowardly, vengeful. At any opportunity, he can take revenge on any person who did not satisfy him, while he rejoices and immediately comes to action. For example, when Vakula painted a picture that the devil did not like, he always prepared meanness for him. Recall when, at the beginning of the story, the devil stole a month to do dirty tricks. Due to the fact that it will be very dark outside, the father will have to return home and find his daughter with Vakula. However, all his plans fail and become against him, since it is known that good always comes out victorious.

I think that the author is once again trying to prove to readers that every bad deed will turn out the opposite, and evil will be defeated by good. As shown in this story, the devil was defeated, and Vakula revived good.

Option 5

In his works, Gogol always tried to achieve the effect of surprise, maybe even shocking his reader, with the help of a terrible, mystical story, which he often took from folklore. And he coped with this task with a bang, since many of his works were re-read dozens, if not hundreds of times, which made him such a popularity. Without a doubt, this author made a great contribution to the development of folklore and culture of our country. An example is the work "The Night Before Christmas".

In the work, the narrative introduces us to an amazing, magical story, along the way, the development of which we get acquainted with a huge number of amazing characters, even with the mythical Devil. In the work, the Devil has the role of universal evil, and the other characters play the role of good, which defeats this very evil by any means. Thus, the author creates an amazing picture in which we see the struggle between good and evil itself, in their true manifestations. At the end of the struggle, the author shows that good always defeats evil, in any case, even regardless of the circumstances, which in turn motivates the reader to do only good deeds, which in turn make the world around us better and a little kinder.

The devil appears before us in exactly the same way as he is described in folklore, from where Gogol took his prototype. He is small, black, with animal features. Disgusting with all his appearance, thus, the author creates the image of an anti-hero, whose task in the work is to repel the sympathy of the reader with all his might. Which he does quite well.

By character, the Devil as such does not have any human features, but desperately tries to imitate them, and, moreover, to imitate not the best features, and by no means virtues. He shows himself as a cunning, malicious, and greedy creature who is ready to do anything and not give up the most disgusting deeds in order to get what he wants, in this way the external image of the character is formed, which the author filled with many interesting unique features, and which, together with character and his story, create a unique image that sticks in the memory of the reader, and introduces him into some kind of reflection on what he has read.

I believe that it was precisely these character traits and image that were shown in the work “The Night Before Christmas” in the character of the Devil.

Sample 6

"The Night Before Christmas" - a story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, written in 1830 - 1831. She saw the light in the publication "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" and won the love of the people. Bright, lively descriptions of the main characters, characters thought out to the smallest detail, and a detailed description of evil spirits, representing a picture in the mind of the reader, were easily given to the writer.

The image of the devil in this story was no exception to the writer's rules. The reader is presented with a real devil, with a narrow muzzle like a German, ending with a heel, like a pig, thin legs and a sharp long tail like a real provincial lawyer. Such a comparison with people is not easy, it deliberately ridicules and compares them to the devil. The devil is also endowed with small horns on his head and a goatee.

The devil's behavior is a constant desire to deceive. His heel sniffs all the time, as if looking for someone to fool. The devil is witty and dexterous, cowardly and vengeful. Seeing such a set of qualities, the reader can draw parallels, for example, that only cowards take revenge. Despite this, the devil is not deprived of magical, unusual powers: he turns into a horse, flies through the sky, and then decreases in size to get into the pocket of Vakula, the blacksmith. Comparison with people in appearance and behavior makes the image more lively and understandable. The main goal of this hero of the story is revenge on Vakula for painting a picture on the wall of the church at the entrance, where St. Peter casts out evil spirits.

Having stolen the month, the devil hopes that Chub, the father of Oksana, with whom Vakula is in love, will be frightened of the dark and return home from the deacon. There, according to the devil's plan, he was to catch Vakula and Oksana and drive him away, since he did not approve of his love for his daughter. But no matter what the devil does, everything went far from his plans. And instead of spoiling Vakula's life, on the contrary, he helps to fulfill his dream - to marry Oksana. He transports the blacksmith on his own back to St. Petersburg to the queen, reaches into his pocket, takes him to an appointment with Catherine the Great and takes him back, again on his back. For all the work, Vakula rewards him with blows of rods and beatings. Good triumphs, because the devil could not interfere with the blacksmith's love and pure heart.

The devil plays a huge role in the work. Despite his superhuman abilities, he loses to Vakula and follows his orders. The devil is defeated. I believe that in this way the author wanted to show that evil can and should be fought. The main thing is to be honest, kind and strong in spirit and body, like Vakula is a blacksmith.

Essay 7

One of the most noble and truly universal works of the great writer - Nikolai Gogol, is the story "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka".

Nikolai Vasilievich scrupulously invented images, trying to show all the advantages and disadvantages, each hero is special in his own way. The writer believed in fantastic, supernatural powers, as well as in popular superstitions, so in his work he found a place for a witch and a devil, who became one of the most striking characters.

The devil is a sensible and cunning kind of prankster. At the beginning of the story, it is said that he has only one night left when he has the opportunity to roam with impunity in the world of people and teach them to sin. As a result, the devil is trying to arrive in time to mischief everywhere.

Nikolai Gogol gave the mystical creature the negative qualities of people, such as: cunning, cowardice and insidiousness. However, he still notes that he is "smart as hell" and "damn handsome."

This image is close to human, despite the presence of hooves, horns and a tail. The devil tends to freeze, just like ordinary people. It is also worth paying attention to his relationship with Solokha. Caring for her, he behaves like a simple man. Such things make the character completely fearless, and on the contrary, a little funny, causing a smile on his face.

The hero's vindictiveness manifested itself when he tried to annoy the blacksmith Vakula for creating a drawing that was offensive to him. However, his revenge is reminiscent of that of a small child. But the devil is still happy, because he still has the opportunity to take revenge. The theft of the moon was a bright and memorable action so that the inhabitants of Dikanka would not find the right path. After a while, she slipped out of the hands of the devil, and everything fell into place.

After reading the whole work, one gets the impression that one of the main characters - the devil, is endowed with a special charm. A coward and a prankster, absolutely not terrible, but ridiculous. On top of that, with great moral features.

With the help of the devil, Gogol, as it were, points out the weaknesses of people. And in the end, he plays quite interestingly, trying to show that evil is punishable: Vakula manages to outwit the mystical mischief-maker.

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