Examining the Representations of Love‚ Marriage‚ and Romance in ‘Colonel Chabert’ and ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’ The two novels‚ Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac and The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov‚ both explore the darker side of love and marriage. Traditionally marriage is viewed as a strong emotional bond held between two people who are truly in love. However‚ each story portrays the different ways in which people express love in the public sphere compared to their actions
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his experiment. There are three men and one woman. Mr. Medbourne was a man lost in money in his young days. He lost all of his belongings and wealth in one blow because he couldn’t be happy with what he had. Mr. Medbourne represented greed. Colonel Killigrew wasted his life away party and living the high-life. He never did anything with his life‚ and because of this‚ represented sinful pleasure. Mr. Gascoigne was a very powerful man in politics and took advantage of his high power. He represents
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The Story Dr. Heidegger invites to his study four elderly friends to engage in an experiment. Three are men: Mr. Medbourne‚ Colonel Killigrew‚ and Mr. Gascoigne; the fourth is a woman‚ the Widow Clara Wycherly. The study is a dusty‚ old-fashioned room replete with a skeleton in the closet‚ a bust of Hippocrates‚ books and bookcases‚ and a portrait of Sylvia Ward‚ who died fifty-five years before the night of the experiment on the eve of marriage to the doctor after swallowing one of his prescriptions
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try an experiment. He gives them a drink that he says is from the Fountain of Youth‚ and they all become young‚ but only for a few brief moments. Each of the characters represents a basic human fault or flaw. Widow Wycherly represents vanity; Colonel Killigrew represents indulgence; Mr. Gascoigne represents corruption‚ and Mr. Medbourne represents greed. Widow Wycherely is very representative of vanity. We are told that in her prime‚ she was a great beauty. When she drinks the water‚ “she stood before
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is a failure‚ but unlike the others he learns from his mistakes and understands the importance of youth and experience. Colonel Killigrew wasted his life in “sinful treasures”. Mr. Medbourne lost his money by making bad business decisions. As for Widow Wycherly‚ she displays an urgent need for a drink. The theme of sinful pleasures comes into play when Colonel Killigrew drinks the water‚ but yet continues to lie. He didn’t learn from his mistakes. He repeated the same mistakes. He wasted his
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five characters. Dr. Heidegger himself‚ an old scientist and four of his friends- Mr. Medbourne‚ Mr. Gascoigne‚ Colonel Killigrew and Widow Wycherly. All were past their prime and spent a sad old age with nothing but regret for their lost youth. Mr. Medbourne had lost all his wealth in speculation during his youth‚ Mr. Gascoigne‚ as a politician had earned only ill repute. Colonel Killigrew had spent his youth in debauchery. Widow Wycherly‚ who was a real beauty in her youth‚ had been embroiled in a
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describing the main characters. This sets the stage for the plot. Dr. Heidegger reunites four people‚ Mr. Medbourne‚ Colonel Killigrew‚ Mr. Gascoigne‚ and Widow Wycherly‚ who once knew each other‚ but since then‚ they have all experienced great misfortune. Mr. Medbourne was a “prosperous merchant‚” but became “little better than a mendicant” after frantic speculation. Meanwhile‚ Colonel Killigrew now experienced a “brood of pains” and “other torments of the soul and body” because he spent his youth “in pursuit
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with black humour‚ showing the weakness of mankind. In this story Dr. Heidegger is not just a doctor or a magician‚ but also a psychologist. He is an old‚ eccentric scientist. He invited four of his friends – Mr. Medbourne‚ a rich merchant‚ Colonel Killigrew‚ a pursuer of pleasures‚ Mr. Gascoigne‚ a ruined politician and Widow Wycherly‚ once a beautiful woman. The three men loved her once upon a time. Dr. Heidegger and his friends were in his study ‚ and old fashioned room having many book cases
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DR. HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF COUNTRY "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment" was first published anonymously in the January 1837 issue of Knickerbocker magazine under the title "The Fountain of Youth." Hawthorne republished it in book form later that year in United States‚ under his own name and its current title‚ in a collection of stories called Twice-old Tales (in the sense that every tale had been published somewhere else before and hence was being told for the second time).
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she had lived in deep seclusion‚ on account of certain scandalous stories" (Hawthorne 378). The widow had many love affairs when she was younger‚ including the three other men that received invitations to Dr. Heidegger’s house: Mr. Medbourne‚ Colonel Killigrew‚ and Mr. Gascoigne. Previously‚ these men had fought for her hand quite incessantly. "These three old gentlemen... had once been on the point of cutting each other’s throat for her sake" (Hawthorne 378). One can infer that the Widow Wycherly
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