"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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LITERARY ANALYSIS OF “The Corn Planting” Author: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) is often called “the mid-American Chekhov” Title: The title suggests that characters in the story plant corn on a farm. Setting: A farm on Scratch Gravel Road in spring time. Point of view: First person point of view. Central Conflict: The old couple struggle to get over the terrible pain and grief because of the death of their only son. Plot: A man and a woman have a son late in their life. They are
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How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? The play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov shows the changing times in Russia‚ particularly the rise of the serfs and the communist ideology. During the discussion‚ various topics were brought up‚ including social class‚ time‚ characterisation‚ and the significance of the cherry orchard. The cherry orchard in general represents the wealth of the aristocrats and the old social
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"The Lady With the Dog‚" by Anton Chekhov "The Lady With the Dog" is a short story that gives an overview of an adulterous affair. The main character‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ is dissatisfied with his wife and has been consistently unfaithful to her. While vacationing in Yalta‚ he becomes enamored by a young woman that has a Pomeranian in tow‚ and successfully seduces her. Instead of enjoying a short-term fling‚ Gurov finds himself falling in love‚ even though he heartily attempts to dismiss this fact.
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In a span of forty-four years‚ Anton Chekhov‚ witnessed the rule of three Tsars i.e. Alexander II‚ Alexander III‚ and Nicholas II. The reign of these Romanovs was bombarded by numerous dilemmas such as wide peasant unrest‚ revolutionary agitation‚ anarchic disorders‚ and even of industrialisation. Along with their obligations to ‘remedy’ the social ills affecting such a massive and heterogeneous empire‚ they were also battling to preserve their unlimited power. Tsar Alexander II‚ ascended the throne
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Title: Story Of An Hour Author: Kate Chopin I. On The Elements / Literary Concepts The short story Story Of An Hour is all about the series of emotions that the protagonist‚ Mrs. Mallard showed to the readers. With the kind of plot of this short story‚ it actually refers to the moments that Mrs. Mallard knew that all this time‚ her husband was alive. For the symbol‚ I like the title of this short story because it actually symbolizes the "time" where Mrs. Mallard died with "joy." And with that
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