A.P. Chekhov is a recognized master of the story. His early stories are full of the author's humor. However, in many works of that period there is not just humor, but caustic ridicule. The writer mercilessly ridicules the vices of people and contemporary reality. The short story “Chameleon” also belongs to such works. Let's follow one of its main characters - police warden Ochumelov.
At the very beginning of the story, Ochumelov appears before the reader, accompanied by a policeman, who is holding a sieve filled with confiscated gooseberries. This gooseberry speaks very eloquently about the activities of the police warden, and the fact that during his procession the square is empty is even more eloquent. The local peace officer is formidable.
An opportunity to demonstrate his severity comes to Ochumelov in the face of a little dog who came from nowhere. She runs, “jumping on three legs and looking around,” and, finding herself surrounded by a crowd, she looks no less pitiful: trembling all over her body, an expression of melancholy and horror in her watery eyes. It turned out that she bit the finger of the half-drunk Khryukin, a goldsmith.
Of course, Ochumelov must punish the puppy to the fullest extent. The police supervisor quickly issues an unconditional verdict: “...The dog must be exterminated! Immediately! She must be mad..." Ochumelov is quick to deal. But suddenly, someone in the crowd gets the idea that the dog probably belongs to General Zhigalov. For Ochumelov, “stray cattle” instantly turns into a cute, defenseless animal. “She’s small...” he immediately says in a completely different tone.
Ochumelov is resourceful. You can't lose face in front of the general. But, unfortunately for him, the crowd makes a new assumption: the general does not have such dogs, Zhigalov has more and more cops. And how did Ochumelov not understand this? In fact, in front of him is not a dog at all, but “the devil knows what!” No fur, no appearance... only meanness..." And the animal must certainly be taught a lesson! Ochumelov shouldn’t have been so worried. But, apparently, he is destined to worry again. The policeman says that he saw such a dog at the general's yard. Ochumelov was not at a loss here either. The dog, it turns out, is not a “meanness”, but a “gentle creature”, and Khryukin is not a law-abiding citizen, but a “blockhead” and he got what he deserved.
The police supervisor was about to calm down, but it was not to be. It was necessary to “change the coloring” once again: the general’s cook Prokhor declared that “from birth Zhigalov never had such dogs.” “Wandering-tea!”, Ochumelov triumphs.
But immediately he again faces the need to change his attitude towards the little dog, because she turns out to be the favorite of the general’s brother, Vladimir Ivanovich.
This is how Chekhov debunks the duplicity and hypocrisy of Ochumelov, who in a record short time manages to change his own opinion several times. Does he even have it? This raises deep doubts.
A chameleon is a lizard that changes its color depending on its surroundings. When choosing the title for the story, Chekhov chose the second meaning of this word, figurative: “An unprincipled person who easily changes his views depending on the situation.” Such is Ochumelov. He becomes hot-tempered several times for fear of not pleasing the general. For the sake of his pleasure, he forgets his own “I” and is ready to even recognize the devil himself as a god. Ochumelov changes so quickly and so skillfully that the reader barely has time to follow the progress of his thoughts. Perhaps this behavior has long become a habit of the police supervisor.
It is not only Ochumelov who shows himself to be a chameleon in this story. The crowd surrounding the dog-barrel is multifaceted; Khryukin pleases Ochumelov.
Unfortunately, chameleons are not translated in our time, and the word itself, included in the title of the story, has long become a household word.
/ / / What is the meaning of the title of A.P.’s story? Chekhov's "Chameleon"?Anton Pavlovich Chekhov called his story “Chameleon”. I chose this story first from the book and started reading right away because I love animal stories. And the chameleon is an interesting lizard. It changes color depending on the situation. This is how nature helps her fight predators - not with force, but with this kind of resourcefulness. But it is precisely about the lizard that Chekhov does not write or even mention. The chameleon here is man.
Chekhov talks about the police warden Ochumelov, who quickly and often changes his mind. As soon as Khryukin, bitten by a dog, turns to the warden with his bloody finger, he, like a real guardian of order, wants to sort everything out and punish the gentlemen who “do not want to obey the regulations.” He defends Khryukin, is going to write a report, and proposes to exterminate the dog immediately. But as soon as Ochumelov hears that this “stray cattle,” as he put it, belongs to General Zhigalov, the picture immediately changes - he immediately begins to blame Khryukin for everything.
A new remark that the general does not have such dogs restores Ochumelov’s former confidence, and he again authoritatively declares that such dogs must be exterminated, especially since the little dog has “neither hair nor appearance... only meanness.” The police supervisor is thrown into heat and cold; he attacks Khryukin and then the dog several times in a few minutes. And in the end, when the general’s cook said that the dog was “the general’s brother,” Ochumelov was completely unlucky. He sparkled like a Christmas tree: “Has their brother really arrived?.. Look, my God... We miss our brother.”
It's even disgusting! I think that the chameleon would be offended if he knew what a spineless person he was compared to. Crazy is worse than a chameleon. By changing color, the chameleon saves itself from its enemies, and Ochumelov, saving his own skin, also destroys others.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov gives his story a rather interesting and strange title, which precisely reflects the main idea of the entire work. Of course, there can be no talk of any zoology in the story, because everyone knows that Chekhov’s stories had a completely different direction. The main characters live in a small town, of which there are a huge number in Russia.
As a name, he uses a type of lizard that has the property of changing its color depending on the environment around it. Chameleons are often found in nature, which is probably why the author could not help but take such a title for his story. So the Taganrog writer tried to show that in modern society there are a huge number of people who are also chameleons.
The peculiarity of Chekhov's story is that there are very few heroes in it. First of all, this is the dog, which is the main character, and several people from the crowd of people who dropped some phrases from time to time. There were two more heroes: Khryukin, a goldsmith, and Ochumelov, a police supervisor.
The plot of Chekhov's story is that early in the morning a dog of unknown origin appears on one of the streets of a small provincial town. And no one in the city knew who this dog belonged to or whether it was homeless. Of course, there are no zoological studies in Chekhov's story, but it shows how people can change their point of view and have different attitudes depending on what class they belong to and what place they occupy in society.
The plot of the story is that Khryukin saw a dog on the street early in the morning and decided to pet it, as he himself claimed, but for this she bit him on the finger. But witnesses claimed that this rude man, instead of petting the poor dog, began “poking” his cigarette right in its face. That's why she bit him. At the same moment, Khryukin began to shout and soon Ochumelov appeared, who was monitoring the order on the city streets. He began to understand the situation. But each time his opinion changed as soon as they tried to determine who exactly the dog belonged to. All events happen with speed, lightning speed. Everything happened as if it were on a theater stage.
From the plot it becomes clear that Ochumelov arrived at the scene very quickly and in a good mood, since this working day was going just fine for him. He managed to eat gooseberries, which were confiscated. And now the police supervisor wanted to show himself as a real master. And he did not rule out the possibility that he might be able to profit from something. When he found out that the dog had no owner, he began to loudly shout at it, calling it a tramp and demanding that it be immediately exterminated. He also tried to tell the victim not to leave this case so easily and to achieve justice.
Ochumelov said all this so emotionally that he even felt very hot and stuffy from such energetic emotional handling of this matter. But this did not last long, because suddenly a phrase was heard from the crowd that perhaps this was the general’s dog. And here the attitude, views and opinion of Ochumelov change sharply, who suddenly begins to say opposite thoughts to what he said before.
So, now the policeman blames Khryukin for what happened. They don’t even look for the reason why this happened. They blame the victim, and now not only do they not believe him, but they also accuse him of telling a lie, and that it was not the dog that bit him on the finger, but it was he who picked his own finger with a nail. But what is also surprising is that the victim himself begins to behave differently. He seems to be trying to make amends for the puppy, which, according to the crowd, belongs to the general. Khryukin is so frightened that he even begins to tremble. He tells his friend Eldyrin to help him and throw an overcoat on him.
But then suddenly an unexpected remark from the cook, who serves the general, again changes the opinion of both Ochumelov and the victim Khryukin himself. The cook reports that the general never had such dogs. But he doesn’t even have time to finish his entire sentence when Ochumelov’s scream is immediately heard, who is already foaming at the mouth trying to prove to everyone that this animal must be exterminated immediately. But his fuse does not last long, as the cook finishes his sentence and informs everyone present that the general’s brother recently came to see him and this is most likely his dog.
Ochumelov again changes his opinion that now Khryukin is to blame. He even wants to apologize to the puppy that he could have thought so wrongly. After the insults that happened before, now he tries to talk to him kindly, calling him “tsutsik.” And he even tries to become a brother for the dog, starting to growl like an animal. In order for the dog to forgive him for his recent insults and the desire to destroy it, he was ready to kneel or fall in front of it, almost praying for it. And he seemed to do all this sincerely, but still in his heart he was completely indifferent to him. And just because she belonged to the general’s brother, he pretended to love her.
And isn't this similar to a chameleon? Only Chekhov's hero does not change his color, but his opinion, his views and his attitude towards people and animals constantly change, depending on what place they occupy in society. The author in his story, which can safely be classified as a satirical genre, does not expose only one specific person, but ridicules the vices of the society in which he lived. Such vices include, first of all, bribery, corruption, neglect of one’s official duties, an opportunistic lifestyle, and bribery. And even if the leadership changes, they will immediately begin to adapt to the other. It’s not scary even if the political system in the country changes, because they will immediately change their slogans.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a wonderful Russian writer and playwright, a master of the short story. In his short works he reveals very serious problems. He ridicules tyrants and despots who are capable of humiliating themselves and losing their dignity in front of money bags. Chekhov writes about everyday, petty things, but in his stories a protest against the humiliation of man is manifested. A.P. Chekhov really creates a picture of reality, talks about social meanness and distortion of the human personality.
The title of the work always has a special meaning, since it always contains the main idea of the story and its brief content.
Chekhov's story is called "Chameleon", the idea of chameleonism is shown in the story in a figurative sense. Here, a chameleon is an unprincipled person who very easily changes his attitude to life, his positions depending on the current situation. The story contains a satirical generalization.
In short stories, the first and last name of the character is very important, since they immediately describe those in question. Speaking surnames characterize the characters and create a comic effect. “Police warden Ochumelov walks through the market square in a new overcoat and with a bundle in his hand,” this is how this hero appears before the reader. A new overcoat in the summer heat, a bundle in his hand and a sieve with confiscated gooseberries in the hands of the policeman accompanying Ochumelov are symbols of power. Khryukin, a “goldsmith”, is a half-drunk man with big pretensions: “Excuse me, I am a man who works... My work is small. Let them pay me, because maybe I won’t lift this finger for a week...” The surname Khryukin is also comical, but this jeweler is so selfish and expresses his thoughts so poorly that this surname becomes telling and suits him very well. General Zhigalov is a character who will appear, but about whom everyone will talk. The word "general" is part of his name. He does not have a first and patronymic, since they are impossible in the eyes of those who are below him on the career ladder.
In this story, the main chameleon is Ochumelov. He changes his point of view more than once; it is clear that an internal struggle is constantly taking place within him. The police supervisor is in constant anxiety, which is manifested in his words: “Take off my coat, Eldyrin... Horror, how hot it is! It must be before the rain...”, and then: “Put on my coat, brother Eldyrin... Something in the wind blew on me... It’s chilling...” The man is humiliated, he is ready to fawn not even before the general, but before his little dog. And how his view of justice changes depending on whose “white greyhound puppy with a sharp muzzle and a yellow spot on the back”! If it’s just a dog, then Ochumelov considers it right to exterminate it: “I won’t leave it like that! I'll show you how to loosen dogs! It's time to pay attention to such gentlemen who do not want to obey the regulations! When they fine him, the bastard, he will learn from me what a dog and other stray cattle mean! I’ll show him Kuzka’s mother!” But if this is a general’s dog, then it would be more correct to do something differently: “You take her to the general and ask him there. You will say that I found it and sent it... And tell her not to let her out into the street... She may be dear, but if every pig pokes a cigar in her nose, how long will it take to ruin it. A dog is a gentle creature...” At the news that his brother had come to stay with the general, Ochumelov’s whole face “fills with a smile of tenderness.” And all just because the truth is not important to him, what is more important is admiration for the powers that be, because his future career depends on it. Ochumelov’s speech is tongue-tied and rude, he addresses everyone as “you”, this reveals the whole essence of a petty official who has received little power. His phrases are short, abrupt, with an imperative, intimidating intonation and rude vocabulary.
The name “Chameleon” is metaphorical: Ochumelov changes his attitude towards the puppy depending on whose puppy it is. But, having taken off his overcoat, the police warden remains in his tunic, which, at least slightly, must differ in color from the overcoat. Therefore, we can say that Ochumelov turns out to be a chameleon in the literal sense, constantly changing its color.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a wonderful Russian writer and playwright, a master of the short story. In his short works he reveals very serious problems. He ridicules tyrants and despots who are capable of humiliating themselves and losing their dignity in front of money bags. Chekhov writes about everyday, petty things, but in his stories a protest against the humiliation of man is manifested. A.P. Chekhov really creates a picture of reality, talks about social meanness and distortion of the human personality.
The title always has a special meaning, since it always contains the main idea of the story and its summary.
Chekhov's story is called "Chameleon", the idea of chameleonism is shown in the story in a figurative sense. Here, a chameleon is an unprincipled person who very easily changes his attitude to life, his positions depending on the current situation. The story contains a satirical generalization.
In short stories, the first and last name of the character is very important, since they immediately describe those in question. Speaking surnames characterize the characters and create a comic effect. “Police warden Ochumelov walks through the market square in a new overcoat and with a bundle in his hand,” this is how this hero appears before the reader. A new overcoat in the summer heat, a bundle in his hand and a sieve with confiscated gooseberries in the hands of a policeman accompanying Ochumelov are symbols of power. Khryukin is a “goldsmith” - a half-drunk man with big pretensions: “Excuse me, I’m a working person... My work is small. Let them pay me, because maybe I won’t lift this finger for a week...” The surname Khryukin too is comical, but this jeweler is so self-interested and expresses his thoughts so poorly that this surname becomes telling and suits him very well. General Zhigalov is a character who will appear, but about whom everyone will talk. The word "general" is part of his name. He does not have a first and patronymic, since they are impossible in the eyes of those who are below him on the career ladder.
In this story, the main chameleon is Ochumelov. He changes his point of view more than once; it is clear that an internal struggle is constantly taking place within him. The police supervisor is in constant anxiety, which is manifested in his words: “Take off my coat, Eldyrin... Horror, how hot! It must be before the rain...”, and then: “Put on my coat, brother Eldyrin... Something blew on me with the wind... I’m chilling...” The man is humiliated, he is ready to fawn not even before the general, but before his little dog. And how his view of justice changes depending on whose “white greyhound puppy with a sharp muzzle and a yellow spot on the back”! If it’s just a dog, then Ochumelov considers it right to exterminate it: “I won’t leave it like that! I’ll show you how to let dogs go! It’s time to pay attention to such gentlemen who don’t want to obey the regulations! How he, the scoundrel, will be fined, so he’ll find out from me , what do dogs and other stray cattle mean! I’ll show him Kuzka’s mother!” But if this is the general’s dog, then it would be more correct to do it differently: “You take her to the general and ask there. You will say that I found and sent... And tell her not to let her out into the street... She may be dear, and if every pig pokes a cigar in its nose, how long will it take to spoil it? The dog is a gentle creature...” At the news that his brother has come to stay with the general, Ochumelov’s whole face “fills with a smile of tenderness.” And all just because the truth is not important to him, what is more important is admiration for the powers that be, because his future career depends on it. Ochumelov’s speech is tongue-tied and rude, he addresses everyone as “you”, this reveals the whole essence of a petty official who has received little power. His phrases are short, abrupt, with an imperative, intimidating intonation and rude vocabulary.
The name "Chameleon" is metaphorical: Ochumelov changes his attitude towards the puppy depending on whose puppy it is. But, having taken off his overcoat, the police warden remains in his tunic, which, at least slightly, must differ in color from the overcoat. Therefore, we can say that Ochumelov turns out to be a chameleon in the literal sense, constantly changing its color.
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