For more than sixty years, Dog Heart has been waiting for its reader. In Germany and England, the story was published in the early 60s, at the same time in the USSR only in āSamizdatā could it be read by the lucky who were few. And only in 1987 the work was published in the magazine āBannerā, and a year later it was filmed by Vladimir Bortko. In 1925, M.A. wrote Bulgakov's āDog Heartā, an essay that still excites the mind and reveals the meaning of what happened in Russia in those years.
Not a school Bulgakov at all
The compulsory literature program for secondary education includes two works by this author: āDog Heartā and āMaster and Margaritaā. Being the son of a professor of theology and the grandson of priests, the writer put religious symbols in each of his creations, made the plan layered. Perhaps that is why when re-reading his books every time something new opens up.
Despite the complexity of the ideological content, the school will have to write an essay on Bulgakovās novel āThe Heart of a Dogā. And for this it is necessary to analyze the genre, name and main images of the work.
Anti-Soviet pamphlet or dystopia?
Usually, āHeart of a Dogā is called political satire. It's right. But partially. All that Professor Preobrazhensky says about the devastation, the house committee and the Soviet newspapers is, of course, a pamphlet. What Shvonder and Sharikov are discussing and doing is also, no doubt, a satire. Yes, and what! Sharp. Merciless.
But the experiment with the dog is dystopia. In his image, the birth of a new man of a young formation is shown, dangerous trends in the development of such a society are revealed. It turns out that as a warning Mikhail Bulgakov wrote āDog Heartā. The composition of the story should reflect the presence of signs of both genres: both satire and utopia.
Why is the heart of a dog?
When analyzing a work of a small form (novel, short story, short story), its title takes not the last place. So, why did Bulgakov dwell on this particular phrase, because in the text, Professor Preobrazhensky, fending off Bormental about Sharikovās heart, claims that he now has humanity, only the most lousy of all.
In the explanatory dictionaries, the adjective "doggy", in addition to the direct meaning indicating belonging to this animal, has other, figurative, colloquially reduced with a negative characteristic, meaning something difficult, unbearable, as well as vile, low and despicable. And then everything becomes clear, especially the subtitle of the story - āThe Monstrous Incidentā - gives a hint about what Bulgakov wanted to say. āHeart of a Dogā is a satirical composition; its name does not contain the organ of a dog, but the spoiled heart of a newly-born person.
Image system
Surprisingly, it is a fact: in the satirical works of Mikhail Bulgakov there are no goodies. And "Dog Heart" is no exception. The professor, who so reasonably reasoned and rightly exposes the new government, makes a monstrous mistake: the doctor must help people in the treatment of ailments, and he is trying to correct what God created. Preobrazhensky only then realizes the inadmissibility of such experiments.
Schwonder, a demagogue with limited mental abilities who imagines himself to be the master of the house, is shown as the obedient cog of the newly created formation. He and the professor are carriers of completely different principles, even comparing them is impossible.
So which of the heroes needs to be emphasized when asked to write the composition "Bulgakov:" Dog Heart "?" Sharikov - the result of the experiment F.F. Preobrazhensky - it is he who is the main thing in the story and to some extent the object of a dispute between Schwonder and the professor. But did this fight make sense?
Highly developed personality did not work out
Bulgakov knew everything connected with Orthodoxy thoroughly, and it is no coincidence that certain dates or references to them are mentioned in his works. For example, in āThe Master and Margaritaā everything indicates that the action takes place on Holy Week before Easter, in the story of Sharikov, events begin in late December, and by January 7 a new person appears - Polygraph Poligrafovich.
Neither more nor less, but the conversion of the dog Bulgakov coincides with Christmas. āHeart of a Dogā is an essay whose author painfully notes not only the destruction of the best that happened before the revolution, but also the appearance of a creature that will continue this extermination, but not by stealing and boarding up front rooms, but by spiritual devastation.
Why polygraph?
This name is considered a fiction of Bulgakov, although it is known that in the calendar calendar of the proletariat of that time his female interpretation was already listed. What could the writer warn about by repeating: Polygraph Poligrafovich? When Mikhail Bulgakov created The Dogās Heart, the composition of such works could not become the property of a wide circle of readers. It's a pity! Then many would understand: the name of the protagonist is associated with printing, which means replication, that is, there should be a lot of them.
The writer feared (and not in vain) that the balls would be ideal for the new government. Deprived of their own opinions, having no spiritual connections, traditions, these people will carry out not only what they are ordered to, but also take the initiative aimed at destruction, since they are not able to create by definition. It will not work to create them in the way that Professor Preobrazhensky accidentally succeeded, but it will be quite realistic to educate young people in this spirit.
Thatās what the essay on āThe Heart of a Dogā should be. Bulgakov could not reach his contemporaries, or rather had no opportunity, but even after many decades this story is also relevant.
Modern science is moving forward, trying to find a panacea for disease and prolong the days of man on earth, but do not forget that along with a long life you can get a dogās heart, which will make the lived century useless and useless.