Dead Souls
Blinded by greed, how do we differ from the dead souls, though we are alive?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first watched Chichikov's outlandish swindle unfold, I laughed in disbelief even as his crassness made my skin crawl. Gogol's insight lies in his scathing satire: through the buying and selling of "dead serfs" who exist only on paper, he exposes the hollow illusions and corruption of a society sunk in materialism, a society that has lost the very breath of its soul. Watching this gallery of people, respectable on the surface yet utterly empty within, I am left with a chilling question: is my own soul fully awake and breathing?
"Keep your soul alive; do not let it die while your body still lives."Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"인간은 자기 자신도 모르는 사이에 타락의 길을 걷기 쉽다."
🌱Apply It Today
Recall one of your own unique values or small joys that can't be measured in money or numbers. Setting aside immediate profit or results entirely, take even just thirty minutes for something that brings pure delight to your soul.
