coming across as underdeveloped. The great realists of dramaturgy have relied heavily on implicit characterization which occupy the main body of their character driven plays. Examples of these playwrights are Henrik Ibsen‚ August Strindberg and Anton Chekhov. Such psychological epics as The Seagull indirectly characterise the protagonists so that the audience is drawn into their inner turmoils as they are slowly revealed over the three hours of time spent with the characters. The actors taking on these
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social revolution. His diction is simple. Jaray Ki Chandni (Moonlight in Winter) is the best known book of Gulam Abbas and contains many of his most famous stories. He was a great admirer of the Russian short story tradition and loved the work of Chekhov and Gorky. However the writer he most admired and modeled himself on was Maupassant. His love of poetry‚ specially Urdu poetry was abiding and deep‚ but he never ventured into it himself
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"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The story has a twist ending. As the story opens‚ the banker is recalling the occasion of the bet fifteen years before. Guests at a party that he was hosting that day fell into a discussion of capital punishment; the banker argued that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment‚ while the young lawyer
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The Seagull/Ang Tagak The Seagull/ Ang Tagak is the second offering of Dulaang Up 37th Season which portrays art‚ love‚ and life. This is directed by Tony Mabesa‚ written by Anton Chekhov‚ and translated in tagalog by Rolando Tinio. The main characters are Konstantin Gavrilovich‚ Nina Zarechnaya‚ Irina Arkadina‚ and Trigorin. Other members include Polina‚ Shmaraev‚ and Medvedenko. Konstantin‚ a young writer‚ is in love with a beautiful and wealthy neighbor Nina
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Writer in a white gown Today‚ Leon Agulansky - playwright and writer‚ the author of the novels "Non-Russian Roulette" and "The reservist"‚ Chekhov prize winner of for the collection of stories "The visit in Wonderland" and "Parallel Curves‚" a member of writers’ Union of Russia and Israel‚ also known in Israel urologist is our guest. On the 20th of November the Smolensk Drama Theater hosted a premiere of Conductor on the play Agulanskogo. The author dedicated the play to his friend‚ the brilliant
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"Poetic Realism" or "Bourgeois Realism‚" and major figures include Theodor Fontane‚ Gustav Freytag‚ Gottfried Keller‚ Wilhelm Raabe‚ Adalbert Stifter‚ and Theodor Storm.[6] Later "realist" writers included Benito Pérez Galdós‚ Guy de Maupassant‚ Anton Chekhov‚ José Maria de Eça de Queiroz‚ Machado de Assis‚ Bolesław Prus and‚ in a sense‚ Émile Zola‚ whose
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parents are against friends of their children or against a person their child wants to marry. They see only skin-deep beauty‚ but appearance is deceptive‚ whereas their child knows this person from different sides and can judge him or her fairly. Chekhov‚ one of the Great Russian writes‚ said: “Everything should be beautiful in a person: his face and his clothes‚ his soul and his thoughts”. I completely agree with him and believe that to consider a person beautiful‚ we need to find beauty both physically
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Chekhov’s short story‚ The Betrothed‚ is about a young woman who leaves home days before her wedding in search for a different life. The life of this heroin represents a larger liberation of women of the nineteenth century. To fully understand the evolution of women within Russian literature‚ it is necessary to compare The Betrothed to literature of the earlier part of the century. Karamzin’s Poor Liza also illustrates the fate of a young woman and if put side by side with The Betrothed‚ will trace
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Nicholas II came to the throne during an arduous time in Russian history. It was a combination of factors‚ including his political ineptitude that led to the fall of the Romanov dynasty and eventually cost Nicholas II‚ the Tsarina Alexandra and their five children their lives. Russia was late in modernising‚ partly due to the Tsar?s lack of reforms‚ and was behind Britain‚ France and the United States. Russia was also slow to emerge from feudalism‚ and was undergoing difficulty as industrial and
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Desire—The Viper in your mind By reading the short stories” A&P” and “The Lottery Ticker”‚ it is evident that both of them talk about the power and the negative effect of desire. In some situations‚ desire or emotional thoughts may impair people’s judgments‚ and even lead to some negative consequences. The character development in both stories highlights the power of desire and how desire makes people impetuous‚ They get influenced by the strong feeling deep down inside‚ For instance‚ in the
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