I am still salty about that teacher and how fixated he was on the number of overcoats the man had, how important they are and the ✨ symbolism ✨
And I'm like My dude my brother in Christ it's not literally just about the Overcoat, the coat is a McGuffin, it could have been a hat or a scarf it don't matter . Gogol disliked and criticised Russian Empire and was highly concerned how shitty the live of small regular men was.
I’d be salty too. Like what gave him the right when you’d read it in the original language??? That teacher should get vibe checked into the sun. Art is a conversation between context, the artist themselves, and what they’re tryna to portray and divorcing it from that context is so fuckin….I dunno. Shallow.
Like honestly in class today we were reading Baudelaire, and,,, if you’re gonna include the original in the handout,,, let me talk about it goddamn. The English TL you picked has a markedly different tone than the original and that just doesn’t. Come across? Bleh.
English class amirite </3