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World Literature The Death of a Government Clerk Basic Elements

 

World Literature
The Death of a Government Clerk
Basic Elements

Name    : Muhammad Husain Nur Faiz Assyifa
NIM       : 2109010001

Genre

Short story

Setting and Context

Late nineteenth-century Russia

Narrator and Point of View

The story is told from the perspective of a third-person narrator and follows the thoughts and experiences of its protagonist, Ivan Tchervyakov.

Tone and Mood

The tone of the story is ironic and critical. The mood of the story is desperate and absurd.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist of the story is Ivan Tchervyakov. There is no real antagonist in the story, though Tchervyakov is convinced Brizzhalov will punish him for his social transgression.

Major Conflict

The central conflict of the story is that Tchervyakov, a low-level government employee, accidentally sneezes on Brizzhalov, a higher-ranking official. Tchervyakov then becomes committed to apologizing to Brizzhalov out of fear of what might happen to him.

Climax

Tchervyakov meets with the general and attempts to apologize on multiple occasions, but the general never formally accepts his apology and Tchervyakov goes home, lies down, and dies.

Foreshadowing

Tchervyakov's desperation and persistence foreshadows his eventual demise, as he is unable to complete his apology to Brizzhalov.

Understatement

Many of Brizzhalov's remarks are examples of understatement, as he is attempting to ignore the incident altogether and therefore does not wish to elaborate on his feelings the same way Tchervyakov does.

Allusions

The story alludes to the hierarchy present in the Russian government by having Tchervyakov, a clerk, develop anxiety over how his sneeze may have affected Brizzhalov, a general.

Imagery

The only true imagery in the story occurs when the narrator describes Tchervyakov's face before his sneeze, emphasizing the drama of the event.

Paradox

The story's overall style is a paradox, as it features elements of both realism and absurdism. The central paradox of the story is that Tchervyakov's sneeze means nothing to Brizzhalov but everything to Tchervyakov.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Brizzhalov is a metonymical representation of the higher echelons of the Russian government.

Personification

N/A

 

Summary

“The Death of a Government Clerk” by the famous Russian writer, Anthon Chekhov, is the study of character and the author deals very well with the character and his predicaments in the story. It gives us an idea of how the relationship of the servants was with their superiors in Russia. And also what impacts did social class and position had over individuals in that time. This story is mainly about Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov, a government clerk who attends an opera and all of a sudden, sneezes there. He then notices a general of transport whose name is Brizzhalov, sitting in the front row, cleaning his head and neck with his gloves. The clerk thinks that he had made a terrible mistake by sneezing at him and owes him an apology. Surprisingly, whenever he attempts to express his apology, he does not get the chance and is always interrupted. He looks for ways to end this misunderstanding between him and the general. But the behavior of general with the clerk places him in such a stressful condition, which eventually causes his death.

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