The correct answer is option B. "That appearance and power are closely related". In Nikolais Gogol's "The Nose", a St. Petersburg official lost his nose, and the nose acquired a life of its own. Some authors interpret the lost of the nose as to a castration complex, as the official faced a lost of power in relation of changing his appearance by losing his nose.
The value in Russian culture the author, Nikolai Gogol, wants to represent is the importance of olfactory perception. It is in the tradition of Russians to have a rich olfactory values. During this period, vision-oriented sensory paradigm is making waves and belittling olfactory-oriented sensory.
