Question

how does the character of pokhom represent the human lust in the story​

Answer 1

Answer:

.The protagonist of the story, Pakhom is a peasant farmer turned landowner. Pakhom is at first depicted as a hard-working husband and family man, barely getting by according to society’s standards. Motivated by the elder sister’s criticism of country life and guided by the Devil, however, Pakhom progresses from a poor, yet happy, peasant to a greedy and prideful landowner. As Pakhom gains land and wealth, he becomes increasingly unhappy and, just as his wife predicts, increasingly fearful of losing it all. Although Pakhom claims that with enough land he would “fear no one – not even the Devil himself,” this proves untrue, as his greed is fueled by constant anxiety about returning to peasantry. The character of Pakhom illustrates the social and personal consequences of greed and pride, while simultaneously exposing the dangers of private landownership. He buys more land than he needs and proves unsympathetic to neighboring peasants left with insufficient property to farm and survive; he even fines them for trespassing. Pakhom’s character is largely allegorical, embodying many of the traits and behaviors that lead to the civil unrest and social inequality that plagued nineteenth-century Russia.