Slavery In Anton Chekhov's Life

“In general, Russia suffers from frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.”(O) In the nineteenth century serf slaves plagued Russian country, one of these serfs included Anton's grandfather, as well as his father. In years prior to this time serfs had little to no money, and could barely make it through the week with the money they had. In addition, serfs had long extensive hours of labor. This effected Anton’s family up until a year prior to his birth. In 1861, the serfs, freed of labor and slavery to their masters. Under those circumstances, Anton was the first generation freed serf in his family. Eventually, there underprivileged misfortune caused Anton’s father, Pavel, to go into bankruptcy, …show more content…
“In March 1897 Chekhov had suffered a lung hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis, symptoms of which had become apparent considerably earlier.” (D) Throughout, the condition of tuberculosis Anton had, he did not delay his writings, as well as lead on that anything was astray. In the years prior, Anton’s brother Nickolay died from tuberculosis, this overwhelmed and disturbed Anton. Eventually, causing him to write a book “A Dreary Story”. The plot is influenced by the appalling death of Nickolay which features a professor of medicine dying from tuberculosis. Furthermore, the plot is also based on the sights that Anton assessed with the situation, and the overall event he withstands. As well as, the deep speculations he undergoes, while dealing with the loss of his sibling, and his own significance in life. Meanwhile, without this event occuring Anton would not have been affected by this traumatic event and write “A Dreary Story”. Illness made itself known in Antons’ family and impacted his writings, in neither a positive nor negative