I feel like thats how someone is represented in the book or because they are a major part of the book
Major Kovaloff believes that witchcraft is what took his nose.
He knows a woman that wanted to marry her daughter to him, but he had often rejected. He thinks that to get her revenge, she "must have hired
some witches to spirit it away," which is the only way he could think his nose could have possibly disappeared.
If electricity stopped working it would scare the population and they wouldn’t know what to do but over time for example a year after, the population most likely would’ve adapted to this obstacle or learned how to overcome it bringing new ideas and new solutions to problems that needed electricity
He makes his living by singing in the theatre