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An inspector general leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit.

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The Inspector General is not the actual name of the play. It really is The Government Inspector. However there is a 1949 movie that was made based off of the structure of the original play.This Russian play can go by both names but technically that's what it should be called. It was originally published in 1836, the play was then revised for an 1842 edition. Things were lost during the revision.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZV7O5AyrM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zADk0XxTOA

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(In order to simplify for English readers the somewhat formidable cast, the surnames of the first eight characters are omitted, as they would not be used in familiar intercourse. Khlestakov's name is, however, retained in full. The surnames only of the rest, who are of lower social standing, are given. (Osip and Mishka are nicknames.) The full names of nearly all the characters occur either in the text or the notes.)

~Anton Antonovich, Governor of a Russian provincial town. He is portrayed as a typical old civil servant; insightful; at first look honest. However, he is uneducated. That' s a man of limited possibilities, lazy, violent, a robber of state and private property. His activity is reflected in poor hospital and school conditions. Theft is his way of ruling. He is a coward when it comes to higher power- he is a bootlicker- Anton gives the "Inspector General" money and invites him home. Governor is lying just to get away with penalty.

~Anna Andreyevna, his wife. A vain woman.  Her concern with appearance is indicated by the stage direction that "she changes her dress four times" during the play. The governor's wife flirts shamelessly with Khlestakov. When he informs her of his engagement to Marya, she approves, imagining the benefits she will enjoy in Saint Petersburg as a result of the marriage.

~Marya Antonovna, his daughter. She is like her mother, not very clever young woman. She likes Khlestakov and believes in all his lies. He proposed to her and left her.

~Luka Lukich, Director of Schools. He admits to his friends that whenever someone that is in a higher position talks to him he gets scared and confused. He shows how terrible the school system is in this town and how uneducated they are.

~Ammos Fyodorovich, a Judge. He is the first besides the mayor to bribe Khlestakov, and he is incredibly sweaty.

~Artemi Philippovich, Charity Commissioner and Warden of the Hospital. He gives insight into the terrible condition of the town's hospital, and has an older gentlemen doctor who sticks by his side, whose speech can barely be comprehensible.

~The real Inspector, Not given a name that I could find. In the end he is revealed to have been hiding undercover for the past three months.

~Ivan Kuzmich, a Postmaster. He admits to reading and sometimes even holding onto mail. He is the one to uncover that Khlestakov was not the real Inspector through a letter.

~Ivan Alexandrovich Khlestakov, an upper class gentleman, not wise but a very tricky man. He manages to outwit everyone. When he realises that they think he is Inspector General he accepts the role. Khlestakov is irresponsible young man that stays in a Russian provincial town by accident. He lost his money gambling and has a lot of debts. In act II we have two characters that are afraid: Governor because of Inspector General' s arrival and Khlestakov because of his unpaid debts. When he accepts the role that is given to him, he loses sense of reality. He is not fraud, he lies with a feeling.

~Osip, his servant. He makes the bet with Khlestakov.

~Dobchinski, landowner and brother to Bobchinski, both brothers are dimwitted. They are the ones who originally tell the Governor that Khlestakov is the inspector.

~Bobchinski, landowner, brother of Dobchinski. He confesses that he has never met a person as important as the Inspector General. He just would like to have his name said aloud by an important person in an important place.

~Ukhavyortov, a Police Superintendent.

~Pugovkin [ Police-Officers. (Kvartalniye, or Ward-Inspectors)

~Abdulin, a merchant.

~Mishka, servant of the Governor.

~Waiter at the inn.

~Ensemble of Gentlemen and ladies, guests, merchants, citizens, and petitioners.

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This play is known as a "comedy of errors," which means that it is inherently satirical. In this particular instance, the bizarreness of each of the characters and their motives/behaviors goes to serve Nikolai Gogol's narrative themes for the play.

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This play is known as a "comedy of errors," which means that it is inherently satirical. In this particular instance, the bizarreness of each of the characters and their motives/behaviors goes to serve Nikolai Gogol's narrative themes for the play.

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This play is unique and was considered at its time to be very transformative in the fact that it had no heroes. The play also had no clear villains; rather, everyone in the story was depicted at having played a role in the overall status of the world they lived in. Gogol wanted to express that he believed that there weren't everyday villains pulling strings behind closed doors, but rather, that everyday normal folk contribute to evil by being complicit towards it.

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Even though there are no "villains" in this piece, every character shows a moral deficit in their lives.
The main character, Ivan Khlestakov, embodies greed. He is a hollow character, who imaginatively thinks of new ways to get money from different people.

The mayor, Anton Antonovich, is a representation of the typical civil servant at the time- unintelligent, as is seen with his confusion as to who the Inspector General actually is. He runs a down-trodden city, where the schools, hospitals, and other government departments are crumbling because he has pocketed the funds for each.

Among the other inspectors in this town, they all show lacking moral structures.

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While we know this play as being called "The Inspector General," it is also known by the title "The Government Inspector." While both titles appropriately describe the main character and what he does, it does hold different subtext. "The Government Inspector" can be used to describe the play itself- and how the play functions as an inspection of Russian Bureaucracy at the time.

The play is full of governmental tyranny, as the inspectors of different departments are all shown to be wholly incapable of actually doing their jobs but yet still holding immense power in their respective departments.
The play is also full of "red tape," where nothing gets done without thousands of letters from this department head to the next, asking for permission or for funding.
Both of these are representative of the state of Russia's government at this time- many people in positions of great authority proved themselves inadequate of holding such power through their conduct. They mishandled appropriations and funds, and their greed drove motivation. They were also catalysts of a bureaucratic system that was wholly inefficient, and never actually got any significant work done because of the red tape that existed everywhere.

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Gogol wanted to write this play as a way to criticize the government, and display how comically bad it was. And so, he wrote a comedy in which its plot is driven by the greed and stupidity of those in power. And to a large degree, he succeeded in his goal.

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Gogol wanted to write this play as a way to criticize the government, and display how comically bad it was. And so, he wrote a comedy in which its plot is driven by the greed and stupidity of those in power. And to a large degree, he succeeded in his goal.

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SYNOPSIS

"When the locals in a small town in Russia learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the village spiraling into a world of panic and greed. The Government Inspector is often said to be Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, a comedy of errors that provides clever commentary on the extensive political wrongdoing of Imperial Russia. When it opened, it caused an uproar in the Russian press. Eventually, Tsar Nicholas I had to intervene in order for the production to move forward. Since its premiere in the 1830s, The Government Inspector has been translated and adapted for many different productions, most notably the Chichester Festival in 2005.

The inspiration for The Government Inspector came from a conversation between Gogol and Alexander Pushkin, another famous Russian writer. Apparently Pushkin had actually been mistaken for a government inspector at one point in his life. He mentioned this to Gogol, who then turned it into a play. Witty, smart and wildly satirical, The Government Inspector exposes the corruption of a provincial town with biting hilarity."

SUMMARY

The governor Anton Antonovich collected all the officials of the city and reported that he had received a letter from his friend, from which he learned that in their city was going to become a government inspector, and incognito. The governor gave everyone a mandate to put in order all the government offices - the court, the hospital, etc. It turns out that in court, they have been brooding geese.

The mayor is afraid that someone would report on him, so he called the postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin and asked him to open gently the letters and to read, and then again to seal and report to him. It turns out that the postmaster has been doing so for long, and even those letters that he liked he left.

Into the room burst country squires – Piotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky and Piotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky saying excitedly that in a local restaurant stayed a young man, an official named Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov. He behaves strangely, lived for two weeks, and did not pay the money. Well, they have concluded that this must have been a government inspector.

From his servant Osip it became known that Khlestakov is traveling from St. Petersburg to Saratov. On the way, he lost all his money for gambling and alcohol, and is left without a penny, and got stuck in this inn: has nothing to pay, cannot go on his way. The host does not provide lunch in debt demanding money.

When Khlestakov learns the governor came to him, he decides that the owner of the restaurant had already complained, and now he would be led to prison. When the door opens, Khlestakov pales and shrinks. At first he stutters little, but by the end of the speech says loudly that would pay everything. And say that the owner gives him not fresh beef, thus complaining on the services of the restaurant.

The governor takes it personally, apologizes, saying that the beef is always fresh in the market. He offers to move to a more comfortable apartment. Khlestakov takes it for a hint of prison, and threatens that he would complain to the Minister.

When the governor learns that Khlestakov needs money, the offers a loan, but instead of two gives four hundred rubles. Khlestakov calmed down. The governor again starts talking about the other apartment offering Khlestakov to move in with him. The last agrees.

Before he took a room in the house of the governor, Khlestakov examines the government offices at the request of the governor, although a little surprised what it is for.

They come in the governor’s house. The governor introduces the inspector to his wife and a daughter( of marriageable age). They begin to ask the guest about how he lives. Khlestakov, realizing that he is taken for some of a high official, starts to lie brazenly, saying that in the capital absolutely everyone knows him, that he often has dinner with a minister, and even once he asked to run the department. After his story everyone became numb, they do not even know how to address him.

At a time when Khlestakov is sleeping everyone in the house go on tiptoe. Officials decided to slip Khlestakov a bribe and sent with this purpose Amos Fedorovich, the judge. During the visit, Amos Fedorovich drops the money. Khlestakov notices it and asks if he to lend it to him. Next comes the postmaster, Khlestakov also borrows from him. Only Artemy Filippovich Zemlianika says about the real state of things. However, Khlestakov borrows from him as well.

Left alone, Khlestakov decides to write about all this to his friend, a journalist, so he could publish an article in the newspaper. Khlestakov says in a letter about everything that happened to him.

Khlestakov hears some noises; merchants come to him with a complaint against the governor. Khlestakov is listening to them carefully and promises to help.

The scene in the living room. Khlestakov and Marya , the governor’s daughter, are sitting nearby. Khlestakov pulls the chair closer, then she pushes hers away, and so several times. Then he kisses her on the shoulder. She angrily gets up and makes an offended look. He falls to his knees and says it's all because of love to her. At this time Anna, her mother, enters finding such a scene. She asks to explain what's going on here and says her daughter to leave. Khlestakov himself notes that the mother is not ugly as well, he rushes to his knees and also declares his love to her. At this time Marya Antonovna enters seeing the scene, her eyes are welling with tears. Khlestakov rushes to her, asking her to marry him.

It becomes known that the wedding is planned. Khlestakov says that he needs to go for one day to his uncle and leaves.

The governor summons merchants, announces them that Khlestakov will soon be his son in law, and for the fact that they complained about him, they will not have it good. Merchants are asking for forgiveness.

Postmaster appears with a message that Khlestakov is not a government inspector. He read a letter which he sent to the journalist. The Governor is in horror.

At that moment enters a gendarme and demands the governor to the officer, who had just arrived from St. Petersburg.

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love the mustache!

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-in 1831, Gogol published his first set of work (that succeeded) called Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
-he followed it with a second volume, and in 1935, he had to volumes of stories called Mirgorod
-at this time he also had two miscellaneous prose called Arabesques
-at this point in his life, Russian editors and critics saw Gogol emerging as a Ukrainian rather than a Russian writer
-however, Gogol's satire was more unconventional and sophisticated
-between 1832 and 1836, Gogol fervently wrote pieces and editors and critics changed their mind and classified him as a Russian writer
-it was only after his presentation at the Saint Petersburg State Theater on April 19, 1836 with his play The Government Inspector that he truly felt that writing was his vocational calling
FUN FACT: this would make Gogol 27 years old when this play was performed
SECOND FUN FACT: he is also know for his short story "Diary of a Madman"

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-Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin
-born in Ukranian Cossack village called Sorochyntsi
-his mother was in the Lubny Regiment in 1710
-his father died when Gogol was 15 years old, but had a hand in amateur Ukrainian-language playwrights
-in the household, both Russian and Ukrainian were spoken
-at a young age, Gogol would stage plays in his uncle's home theater
-in 1820, Gogol went on to a higher education of art at Nezhin and stayed there until 1828
-Nezhin was were he began writing
-in 1828, he left Nezhin and went to Saint Petersburg to write
-he wrote a poem, had it published at his own expense, and it failed drastically
FUN FACT:
-due to the poem's failure, Gogol decided to buy all of the copies and burn them

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-in 1841, shown in 1842, Gogol completed the first half of Dead Souls
-this portion ironically was a set up for a planned modern day counterpart to the Divine Comedy of Dante
-the first part represented the Inferno and the second part represented Purgatory
-in April of 1848, Gogol returned from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
-he passed his last years in restlessness around the country
-after seeking religious council, he was convinced that certain plays he had written were sinful and on the night of February 24, 1852, he burned some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part of Dead Souls
-soon after, he took to bed, refused all food, and died in excruciating pain nine days later