"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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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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Comparison and Contrast: "The Lady with the Pet Dog" Have you ever read a story and wondered if it would be different with a different point of view. Well with the story “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov and Joyce Carol Oates‚ we get a different point of view from both authors. Though there are similarities and differences in both stories the purpose of them only becomes clear when the two stories are read and compared. There are tons of differences that we could focus on but‚ we are
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certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all” (Chekhov 1). In Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Bet” a lawyer and a banker make a bet about which penalty is more humane. The lawyer says that life imprisonment is more humane. In saying this‚ the lawyer bets he can stayed locked up in a cell for 15 years without any human contact and it will show it’s more humane. In the short story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov; the lawyer encounters many types of conflicts including man vs. man
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Status in Two Chekhov Stories In the introduction to our edition of Chekhov’s short stories‚ by George Pahomov‚ it is stated that Chekhov’s fiction “captured the burgeoning Russian democracy” and that “in Chekhov’s democratic world view‚ no one was excluded” (vii-viii). We see these ideals being put forward in the two stories by Chekhov that we will discuss in this paper. In these two stories‚ “The Resurrection” and “The Dance Pianist‚” we can see how Chekhov depicts a world where the author’s
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of paradise and which I now despise" (Chekhov‚ 5). It is clear that the lawyer’s imprisonment helped him to understand that money is not a great objective to our existence‚ but the temptation of greed which can test the strength of a person. From the lawyer’s experience‚ I realized that the will to withstand greediness is a real-life lesson‚ which helps us to look beyond materialistic possessions and focus on more important things in life. Secondly‚ Chekhov displays the understanding of the value
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and thus began the social change that would eventually lead to an uprising analogous in many ways to the French Revolution. Anton Chekhov‚ an accomplished short story writer and playwright of the late nineteenth century‚ recognized this enduring class shift throughout his motherland and praised the work ethic of his fellow citizens‚ as Hugh Short affirms. “[Chekhov] was convinced of the need for unceasing striving‚ a belief that pervaded his life and work; and he had a faith that the future would
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The Cherry Orchard: Critical Analysis The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However‚ Chekhov labeled his play a farce‚ or more of a comedy. Although this play has a very tragic backdrop of Russia’s casualty-ridden involvement in both World Wars and the Communist Revolution‚ the characters and
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The problem of love in the story “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov To begin with I should say‚ that Anton Chekhov in his creative work paid a lot of attention to unpredictability of people’s actions‚ to unusual even absurd people’s feelings and especially to love. Anton Chekhov can be surely called “the descriptor of daily routine”. But although his works are realistic and truthful‚ they make you think a lot about the unpredictability and sometimes cruelty of real life. “The Lady with the
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the Dog” and impacts the mood and tone. When Gurov and Anna leave Yalta‚ it creates a shift in the mood of the story. Yalta is a vacation spot for wealthier people‚ even with being a vacation spot “time goes fast‚ and yet it is so dull here!” (Chekhov 166). Yalta has a romantic feeling the chirping of grasshoppers‚ the heat‚ and the smell of the sea. Anna and Gurov both were married‚ but wanted to get away so they went to Yalta and met for the first time. Gurov has
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