`` The Overcoat `` By Russian Ukrainian Nikolai Gogol And...

â€Å"The Overcoat† is a realist short story by Russian-Ukrainian Nikolai Gogol and The Namesake is a fictional novel by Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri where both texts that have a heavy presence of their cultures embedded in their texts. Connecting the significance of the truth to the protagonist’s relations, both of the texts uncovers a truth. â€Å"The Overcoat† disrobes an ineffective bureaucracy to an undervalued, oppressed and resentful proletariat, who at first internally conflict with the bureaucracy’s pro-conformity arguments, then conform with a momentary acceptance to get attacked and ultimately seek retribution against the government institution. The Namesake uncovers a voyage of an individual’s identity, who does not fully embrace his heritage, with a misplaced namesake from immigrant parents in a different country seeking at first conformity, then reinvention, and ultimately toying with self-acceptance of the individual’s compreh ensive identity. In the The Namesake and in â€Å"The Overcoat† lies the relevance in Plato’s â€Å"Allegory of the Cave† and in its application to identity regarding its connection to relationships in society specifically family, co-workers, the government, and/or marriage. Depicted through the recurring symbols in the text and overtly in the titles â€Å"The Overcoat† and The Namesake, Plato’s â€Å"Allegory of the Cave,†philosophical reasoning, gives a structure to the notion of identity shared between the characters Akaky and Gogol. In the beginning of