Mumu Gerasim: Division Of Power

The texts are connected by showing how division of social class leads to an unfair division of power in society. In Mumu Gerasim is a mute, tall and deaf serf who has to obey his owner under an unfair division of power. Mumu is about a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued The narrator says, “The lady, his owner, had brought him up from the village where he lived alone in a little hut, apart from his brothers.” This shows Gerasim was brought to the city by the lady’s power. For example, the narrator says, “At first he intensely disliked his new mode of life.” This shows that Gerasim had to follow the lady’s word even he disliked, this reveals that Gerasim isn’t allowed
One day, Kolya’s dad invited Yulia to his house to settle her account, but his main plan was to constantly nitpick Yulia for small reasons and deducts her pay. Kolya’s dad said, “I was playing a trick on you – a dirty trick...Is it possible for anyone to be such a nitwit? Why didn’t you protest? Why did you keep your mouth shut? It is possible that there is anyone in this world who is so spineless?” This reveals that even Kolya’s dad tricked Yulia, she could not argue or stand against him because she knows it is meaningless to stand against a man who had more power than herself. Yulia said “merci” several times, which shows she did not have power to try to protest against higher social class. Unfairness of power is also revealed in Vanka, where a nine years old boy, Vanka Zhukov, was sent to Alyokhin as apprentice. The narrator said, “Vanka did not go to bed on Christmas eve. He waited till his master and mistress and the senior apprentices had gone to church, and then took from the cupboard a bottle of ink and a pen.” This shows that Vanka had to wait until all his higher apprentices and masters to be gone before he could
The master dragged me by the hair into the yard and gave me a bearing with a stirrup strap because when i was rocking the baby in the cradle, misfortunately fell asleep.” This shows similar circumstance as Ninny, that Vanka did not have power to argue against higher social class. While these stories all draw comparisons between different divisions of social class, they still lead to an unfair division of power. Mumu compares as a serf own by the landlord, Ninny as being employed governess in high class family and Vanka as low class apprentice in community. But by highlighting the similarities, the texts give a major concept that characteristic as low society level consistently appears from past to