Anton Chekhov The Bet It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how‚ fifteen years before‚ he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there‚ and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests‚ among whom were many journalists and intellectual men‚ disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date‚
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�PAGE � �PAGE �4� In the short story "Misery" by Anton Chekhov‚ I identified the problem of loneliness‚ as the absence of reciprocal understanding. I feel the love that A. Chekhov expresses to the ordinary person like Iona Potapov. The author writes about little things that mean a lot. Deep thoughts are hiding under true life twists and turns. Chekhov tells us a story of the main character‚ penurious Iona Potapov. He‚ as a sledge driver‚ meets various types of people and spends most of his time
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Assignment 204 Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Assignment composition Assignment overview In this assignment‚ you will demonstrate your understanding of what is meant by the term ‘duty of care’. You will consider the types of dilemma that you may arise in adult social care work‚ and find out where to get advice and support to handle these. You will look at how to respond to complaints‚ making sure you know and follow agreed procedures
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THE DEVIL by Anton Chekhov IT was Christmas Eve. Marya had long been snoring on the stove; all the paraffin in the little lamp had burnt out‚ but Fyodor Nilov still sat at work. He would long ago have flung aside his work and gone out into the street‚ but a customer from Kolokolny Lane‚ who had a fortnight before ordered some boots‚ had been in the previous day‚ had abused him roundly‚ and had ordered him to finish the boots at once before the morning service. "It ’s a convict ’s life!" Fyodor grumbled
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Iona “gives a wry smile‚ and straining his throat‚ brings out huskily; My son er my son died this week sir”. (Pg 84; line 10). As Iona proceeded to tell the Officer about the loss of his son‚ a voice abruptly shouted “Have you gone cracked‚ you old dog? Look where you are going!” (Pg 84; line 15). The Officer ignored the distraction and requested that Iona continue on and to speed it up. Iona’s next fare‚ two companions accompanied by a hunchback. After they settled their seating arrangements‚
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Anna is lost in her sin In the Lady with the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates‚ Oates breaks up chronological order into a boxlike structure with three distinct sections of a plot. Every section of the plot is written in different time and part of Anna’s life in order to express more clearly how Anna is lost in her sin since the day she committed adultery. Oates describes changes in her thoughts and her confused state of mind. Using the third person perspective‚ omniscient narrator‚ she makes Anna the
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women in the 1920s that defied convention and attempted to redefine the female role. Women began to smoke cigars‚ test with sexual rules and disregard traditional Victorian etiquette. Prior to this era‚ females were governed by rigid regulations and robbed of their social‚ cultural and constitutional rights. The roaring 20s‚ a decade of cultural change‚ granted several females enough freedom to rebel against the submissive role that they had been subject to for centuries. Flappers received an inconceivable
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Wilde also critiqued the gender roles of the time period. His character‚ Lady Bracknell‚ has been played on many occasion by male actors because of her strong and brash behaviors. She is seen as an immovable obstacle for Jack to overcome. Jack at one point describes her as‚ “Never met such a Gorgon… In any case‚ she is a monster‚ without being a myth‚”(Wilde Earnest 1). The Lady is a monster‚ a repulsive creature. She is not the prim‚ delicate woman of Victorian England. During this time period
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A majority of Shakespeare’s plays include significant presence of female characters that reveal his views regarding woman’s role during the time period. Generally‚ women during the Shakespearean time period were obligated to suppress their opinions and were stripped from rights that women in the twenty-first century possess. They were expected to manage the household‚ as opposed to men‚ who were expected to be the decision makers. Additionally‚ the qualities of an ideal woman were mainly her virtue
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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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