Chekhov Gymnasium

As Brendan Fraser once stated, “I guess darkness serves as a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that,” there is the present concept of redemption. Redemption, without a doubt, is denoted as the restorative or revengeful state of being at the end of a linear sequence. There can be no redemption without conflict, just as there is no night without day. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he incorporates redemption in a darker stance and tone. Rather, redemption in his work…

Anton Chekhov does an exemplary job of establishing Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov character in, The Lady with the Dog. Gurov is a middle aged Russian man under forty with a wife and three children. Despite being married he possess misogynistic views, disliking his wife and women in general, he is quite a strange character because though he is a misogynist he carries out numerous affairs claiming that women like him and that he likes them. On multiple occasions he accouters Anna Sergeyevna whom he…

In the two short stories, “Tiredness of Rosabel” and “Miss Brill”, the female characters fantasize to escape their reality. Through out the stories, both female protagonists [Rosabel and Miss Brill] realize the negative impact of fantasying in their lives. Both characters want to find happiness in their lives; yet daydreaming is a method to ignore their current living situation of being lonely. In the case of Rosabel, her current living situations is not having a partner to be with. In the…

Ivan Ilych with Ivan Ilych’s character. Chekhov and Tolstoy implement illness in each of their stories as an obstacle for each of the character’s development, such that it illustrates physical pain to complement with their conflicting mentality. Ivan and Pyotr display symptoms that not only foreshadows their illness, but also shortcomings in their character. Overall, Chekhov and Tolstoy use illness as a medium to convey a character’s development. Chekhov and Tolstoy presents their…

In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the narrator uses sight to make himself feel superior to Robert as he is threatened by Robert's ability to make deep connections however, this hinders the narrator's ability to connect with people as he is not able to see below their superficial attributes. Because of his insecurity and lack of understanding, the narrator is constantly criticizing and making Robert, the blind man, feel inadequate. This is because the narrator feels threatened by…

Miss Brill to me is a story about a lady who is mentally challenge. It appears that life revolves around the conversations and festivities that happen every Sunday in her neighborhood. She most definitely looks forward to them. Each Sunday she dresses up in garments that she believes is her most stunning to the publics and her eyes. She has a fur that she takes extra special care of. She wears this fur on Sunday’s and places it in a box neatly when she’s done and tucks it away, until next…

"Form in Chekhov's Short Stories." Short Story Criticism, edited by Sheila Fitzgerald, vol. 2, Gale, 1989. Short Story Criticism Online, db15.linccweb.org/login? The play "The Brute" written by Anton Chekhov, where a woman with severe depression tries to stay faithful to her deceased husband. Chekhov is not a traditional writer, he is a writer and influences other contemporary authors with his writing. In his plays he regularly reuses characters, and lacks personality when physically telling…

In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral", the narrator seems to have a small minded approach towards life. In the beginning, the narrator ridicules his wife's past lover, and Robert's (the blind man's) wife, Beulah. When the narrator begins to explain the story behind Robert's wife, he states that there wedding "was a little wedding—who’d want to go to such a wedding in the first place?—"( page 3). In this, the narrator is seen to be negative and bitter towards Robert. Similarly, the narrator ridicules…

Interpretive Response #1 To Look or To See Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” centers upon a narrator who is psychologically blind to the world around him. Although the narrator is not physically blind and he is capable of looking at the world from his own naïve perspective, he’s incapable of actually seeing anything beyond the surface. He is detached from the world around him, isolating himself in a sheltered world that he has created for himself. His ignorance of the unknown seems to scare him,…

A cathedral is a large church from the Gothic period, but in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”, a cathedral represents much more than that. The story of Cathedral is about an unknown man whose wife invites a long-standing friend over to stay, who happens to be blind. The unknown man, who is the narrator, is unhappy about the blind man’s visit for he has prejudices against blind people, as he has never met a blind person before. In the end, he overcomes his prejudices and everyone has a…