Fat is ... The meaning of the word "veil"

A person who plays in public and at the same timeunjustifiably exalts itself, this is the meaning of the word "fath" in its classical sense. Encyclopaedic dictionaries somewhat expand the semantic boundaries of the word, drawing parallels with the stage roles of pompous and limited, and in fact, just stupid heroes. Playing the roles of such a plan is devoted to whole plays, but in life the Fatovskaya manner of behavior looks no less ridiculous and ridiculous.

The language of the classics

Often the word "veil" or "fraud" is found inprose writers Goncharov, Turgenev, Nekrasov. Druzhinin sharply and not without irony condemned the fraud, surprised at how an adult and intelligent man can put a solid piece of his life on the altar of mystification of his own meaning.

Neither Lermontov nor Pushkin ever mentionedof this word in his work, but has not each of them sufficiently reflected the qualitative essence of such untalented power of a well-suspended language and the ability to play whole mono-performances about himself? Fat is first and foremost a person unsatisfied with his own position in the world, that's what is read between the lines in a ridiculous and shameful manner, deduced by the most famous classics of all time.

Well said about this phenomenon, not subject totime, the newspaper "Severny Vestnik" of the 1805 edition. Without quoting the entire article, we will quote the author's opinion on the question "what is this fath?", Sounding in those days as an appeal to the fashionable French language (fat - "stupid" in French). An unintelligible philologist explained to the reader that a person inclined to fraudulence could create for himself a spectatorial mass only from the public, much more stupid than himself, while people at least a half cleverly avoided communicating with such an object. This person is not clever enough to allow herself to be sincere even in private, but she can not be called stupid either, because creating an image, even if lying, is the same work of the mind.

Fancy as a genre

Nobody has described until now the veil morecharacteristic, than Nikolai Gogol in his famous "Inspector". Never once in the whole play did the prose writer use the word "fat". This is all the more valuable, since the spectator himself was able to discover in the main character the whole range of disgusting artificiality inherent in public criticism.

But are the people who surrounded this hoaxer andwere they any smarter? This is the important lesson presented by the brilliant master throughout the numerous episodes and the change of scenery - faktovstvo is disgusting in and of itself, and those who go about him are simply ridiculous, ridiculous to absurdity.

From the life of the great composer

From the words of his brother PI. Tchaikovsky, there was some strangeness in the character of the composer, who, without belittling the creator, found in him a man who was not completely satisfied with himself. It is a question of quite vague evidence that the Tchaikovsky family belongs to the ancient nobility.

That mocking ardor and even publicthe enrollment of his family to the plebeian estate bordered on Peter Ilyich with some mania of dandy negation, when a person would certainly want to be constantly persuaded of the opposite. It was impossible to call such a behavior of the composer anything other than a peculiar fraud, in what his brother confessed in his letters frankly. Hence we see that the veil is not only an open, but also a disguised form of exaltation, which is easier to detect, the more violent the person denies his actual position.