Anton Chekhov

The play, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen works with the ideas of an 1800’s home containing transformations, the fight for individuality, and reputation. Reading the play at first makes it seem as if it is about a women who goes behind her husband’s back because he is too controlling, but there is a much deeper interpretation of this play. Really it is talking about a woman trying to create her own individual personality in the confinement of social expectations and roles. This play characterizes…

could be more standard for a general population. Socialism fought social darwinism and classism, so the peasants desire to better themselves proved that class divides were subjective and unjust, thus serving as an argument to support socialism. Anton Chekhov a physician and playwright believed peasants were disrespectful but redeemable because their actions were a result of not knowing any better (Doc 7). As a playwright, Chkhov would want to see plots from multiple points of views to understand…

Moving on to next thing that I would like to appreciate the learning opportunity to discover the new technology in every class. I always considered myself to be tech-savvy. The word is used to describe a person who is well informed about or proficient in the use of modern technology, especially computers. However, I discovered numerous newly invented technologies every class through the robotics news report or at the beginning of every class when professor Eguchi introduced us to new technology.…

Many people consider family to be a very important and significant part of their lives. Our modern and mobile world makes it hard to maintain close family relationships. With practice and effort, we can not only maintain but build quite strong family relationships.The first chapter in the textbook Interface English, by John Green, forces the reader to come to a conclusion: Do family ties tangle or strengthen?” (5). Although, many people do believe family ties tangle, they really do not. Through…

Now” demonstrate sing real life stories the impact isolation can have on one’s life story. These two stories concentrate generally on the possible negative effect of isolation. A more positive impact of isolation is demonstrated in ‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov. Each of these three cases will be discussed here and the transformations that the characters undergo during their isolation periods and how it affects their general outlook of life will also be…

Imagine rolling a large boulder up a steep hill, only to watch it roll back down again and repeat the agonizing work. This process was the punishment for Sisyphus in Greek mythology and Robert Camus likened this process to the human condition in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Humans search for answers to problems, but are too blinded to find unity. Generally, an archetypal, blind literary character is given the ability to see the more important aspects of life, but the opposite is true for…

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”-Anton Chekhov. In the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who lives in District 12 of Panem, which is post-apocalyptic North America, struggles to put food on the table for her family. A country where the Capitol oppresses its citizens by keeping them fenced off from the outer world. The Capitol also forces one teenage boy and girl from each district to fight in a blood sport the…

What does it mean to succeed in life? To succeed is to look backward, forward, and inward without regret. Success is a dynamic state, which consists of an individual constantly taking agency over his or her life. It is accepting one’s circumstances and becoming, through one’s actions, a person about whom he or she feels proud. The various philosophers, political activists, authors, and business people, whose works I explored in my Professional Responsibility and Leadership (PRL) course in…

A discourse community cannot be defined by words alone, it takes a set of specific characteristics that define each of the individuals that created a discourse community. They are what make a discourse community unique and separate from other communities. James Paul Gee’s definition of a discourse community is “A form of life that combines social languages, discourses, intertextuality, conversations, recognition, kits, and mapping” (Gee). According to Gee, these are the seven essential…