Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and William Faulkner, all twentieth century prominent short story authors, explore the particular theme of love throughout each of their stories. “Lady With the Pet Dog” portrays a married man, Dmitri Gurov, who while on vacation, usually flirts with many women that he encounters. However, he eventually falls in love with a woman who is also married and vacationing in Yalta, Anna Sergeevna. Although he gains feelings for the woman, the two are unable to have a normal…

“The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov provides a glaring example of the unavoidable effects of the socio-economic environment. The plot is centered around the Ranevsky estate in a time of changing social/economic conditions. The class system in Russia is on the way out and serfs and…

The complicated essence of the concept of discovering means to find a sense of discovery through wonder, need and curiosity in an individual perspective. John Keat’s poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” and Anton Chekhov ‘The Bet’ displays the understanding of discovery through the text and how an individual is viewed by one another. The depth of discovery is to overcome the challenges and understand through the shift of time and seeing the individual changes that influences the readers…

male and female have been sensitive topic; however, Anton Chekhov in the 19th century never shied away from it. Chekhov always talked about social issues in his stories and the current situation in the 19th century. He addresses the social issues while adhering it and challenging them. Chekhov does all this without persuading his reader’s views, but providing them an opportunity to have their own outlook on the issue. In terms of social roles, Chekhov challenges and adhere it to 19th century…

In Anton Chekhov 's The Three Sisters, Irina is detailed as a naive young woman who believes that through work, happiness in life can be achieved. Irina, in the beginning, also has a passive vision of how to achieve personal life goals or dreams by continuously expressing interest of living in Moscow but never making plans to actually go. Masha, by the end of the play, discovers with Vershinin that love represents happiness between individuals and not the dissatisfying relationship that is…

As the above statement declares Anton Chekhov's work had become some of the most relevant and important pieces of writing in Russia. He had begun a new era in writing and theatre. However Chekhov felt an anguish similar to many other great playwrights of the time when he saw his own plays misinterpreted by actors portraying melodrama, and the directors who encouraged it. The gap that he perceived between his playtexts and the performances they had been turned into led him to become bitter…

276-277). Chekhov also constructs a Natasha-esque rise to power with Lopakhin, whose past is greatly intertwined with serfdom, and while it was abolished, there is still a lot of fallout surrounding the topic and those involved on both sides. Despite being a successful…

Experiencing Love for the First Time. The story “The Lady with the Pet Dog” written by Anton Chekhov is a very interesting story about an affair between a man named Dimitry Gurvo and a woman named Anna Sergeyevna. They were both married, but in the middle of the story Anna relinquished the affair and went back home to her husband. At first, Dimitry acted as if he did not miss Anna. However, in part three paragraph three it can be inferred that that was not true. Very often, before he met Anna,…

attributions. Gender stereotyping can affect each person's thoughts, feelings, desires and most importantly their identity/individuality. The actions that take place in the stories Alice Munro boys and girls, Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour , Anton Chekhov The Ninny portray different types of stereotypes that affect the woman's individuality and depict them as powerless. Alice Munro has often written about the gap that separates men and women. In “Boys and Girls,” the main theme is gender…

In Anton Chekhov's 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, a Russian family who is used to a life of riches begin to experience the hardships of poverty. Due to an extreme amount of carelessness and selfishness, the mother of the estate Lyubov Andreevna Ranvskaya loses the funds that have been allowing her to keep her family in a comfortable position financially. Throughout the play, Chekhov uses many items to represent symbolism, such as the cherry orchard itself to represent the golden age of…