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    Misery Analysis

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    "Misery" by Anton Chekhov has a simple plot. The protagonist of this short story Iona Potapov‚ is a cab driver in St. Petersburg who is grieving his son’s recent death. Being a cab driver allows Iona to encounter many different people of various backgrounds‚ but he is unable to communicate his feelings. He desperately searches for the opportunity to talk about his grief‚ but nobody is interested in sharing the burden on misery. Each of his passengers rejects his attempts at conversation and depresses

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    Anton Chekov “One must never lie. Art has this speculation.” Chekov is seen as absurd dramatist Absurd Theatre Theatre of the Absurd is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction in the late 1950s. Their work expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all \communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion‚ silence. Explores the absurdity of attempting to

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    exploration of the boundaries between social constraint and inner compulsion‚ Melville and Chekov reveal the restrictions forced upon one’s personal desires as they struggle to find a balance between conflicting values and social norms. Anna and Gurov in ‘The Lady with the Dog’ are restrained by the socially expected conventions in their marriages‚ inhibiting their ability to express their inner compulsion of desire. Chekov reveals their yearning to escape their individual lives as they cope with personal

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    The Revolution of the Peasants “We all look at the same sun‚ but we don’t eat the same dinner.” This is a common proverb said by the peasants of Russia‚ this symbolizes the lack of equality among the classes‚ other proverbs like “A wife is nice twice: when she’s brought into the house and when she’s carried out of it to her grave.” this shows the inequality among peasants themselves! This inequality added to terrible working conditions were the main conditions that ultimately lead Russia to becoming

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    Anton chevok states how important the secondary character and without them the there is no foundation of the story because the secondary character is the one who supporting the main character. For example he quotes “when you fashion a story you necessarily concern yourself with limit :out of main and secondary character’s you choose only one –the wife or the husband‚ place him against the background and describe him alone and therefore also emphases him while you ‚while you scatter

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    The Lottery Ticket I. The Author and It ’s Background : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog‚ southern Russia‚ the son of a grocer. Chekhov ’s grandfather was a serf‚ who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write.Yevgenia Morozov‚ Chekhov ’s mother‚ was the daughter of a cloth merchant. "When I think back on my childhood‚" Chekhov recalled‚ "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed

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    science-fiction franchise all these years‚ you would be definitely touched by its storyline and theme. This movie is really about revisiting the good old times of Star Trek. And since it is also the film that features the last performances by Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) and Karl Urban (Leonard McCoy)‚ the emotional connect only gets deeper. But this is not to say that it is devoid of rough patches. They are there in the form of the chaotic early space battle

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    Heartache

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    problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm”. This famous quote by Milton Fredmen sadly dictates what the fundamentals interests of society have become.  In this short story‚ “Heartache” Anton Chekhov created a main character “Iona” who had recently lost his son. Iona throughout the story had tried to find someone who he can share his sorrows with but ultimately failed. It showed the selfish nature of society and its effects on Iona which

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    With many social and political changes occurring during the 1800’s‚ the Russian Intelligentsia’s view on the peasantry also saw a shift. Recent emancipations in the country saw millions of former serfs and farmers with newfound rights and statuses but also saw exposed many faults in current labor practices and corruption within the bureaucratic levels of the Russian state. The current nobility took it upon themselves to decide how they handle the new working class problems and restructuring of the

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    Throughout Anton Chekhov’s A Transgression and Raymond Carver’s Little Things‚ they show many examples of real life struggles that reflect on the world in which they live. Three of the main real life struggles seen in the text are guilt‚ tensions in the relationships‚ and loss. Guilt is the consequence of making mistakes‚ and is one of the real life issues‚ shown by the authors in these texts. Throughout Chekhov’s A Transgression we are shown how guilt is a real life struggle. The Collegiate Assessor

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