What does Gogol condemn in the poem Dead Souls (N.V. Gogol)?

(279 words) The main character of the work, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, is an ambiguous personality. The author conceived him as a person, not like the others, so he is smarter and more cunning than other characters. Chichikov in the poem is needed not to ridicule the vices, but rather, as the missing link with which

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