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This literary study examines the short story "The Lady and the Pet Dog" by Anton Chekhov. By learning of the sexist and often misogynistic behavior of Gurov toward women, one can realize his love for Anna revokes his views of gender stereotypes. By understanding how women can be seen as individuals with intelligence and beauty, Gurov invariably cannot hold onto these naive gender belief systems in Chekhov's narrative. The paper explains that, in essence, the basis of Chekhov's short story creates a larger perspective relating to how Gurov transforms his gender based misogyny in his love for Anna. Gurov is a male that has a great tendency to make generalizations about women and then places them within a certain category in society.

Tags:chekhov, dog, lady

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This paper analyzes the works of Anton Chekhov, including a number of major plays ("The Cherry Orchard," "Uncle Vanya," "The Seagull," "Three Sisters") and some of his short stories.

From the Paper
"On January in Taganrog, Russia, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born. Though Chekhov wrote many one-act comedies and a significant number of short stories it is for his full-length tragedies that Chekhov is considered among the greatest dramatists of all time. While studying as a medical student at the University of Moscow, Chekhov began writing short stories. Influenced by Vaudeville and French farces Chekhov began writing one-act comedies."

Tags:Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Lady With A Pet Dog, The Radical, The Kiss, happiness, fulfillment, sadness, tragedy, comedy, life

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The paper discusses Chekhov's message that the concept of love is problematic in some people, and fairly unattainable in a pure form. The paper relates that in actuality, Chekhov is saying through "The Lady With the Pet Dog", that longing is more of an aphrodisiac than actual love, though longing can eventually lead to love.

From the Paper
"In the short story "The Lady with the Pet Dog", by Anton Chekhov, Chekhov seems to say that the concept of love is problematic in some people, and fairly unattainable in a pure form. In actuality, Chekhov is saying through "The Lady With the Pet Dog", longing is more of an aphrodisiac than actual love, though longing can eventually lead to love. The story itself is of an aging banker named Dmitry Gurov who lives in Yalta. One day, he notices a young, blonde woman with a white dog and becomes interested in the woman's story. She seems bored of Yalta, and he immediately relates her to his notions of women and his wife. "He had been unfaithful to her...""

Tags:chekhov, love, literature

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Often in his works, Anton Pavlevich Chekhov mixes comedic and tragic elements. The purpose of this is to not allow things to get too drab or life to appear to be too gloomy. He uses his characters as mediums for this comedic relief. Another one of Chekhov's trademarks is the use of off-stage events and actions. These events and actions may appear to be things that deserve the center of attention, but Chekhov purposely places them off-stage so as to draw attention to something else and pulls it off quite well. This paper analyzes several of Chekhov's plays, including, "Uncle Vanya," "The Cherry Orchard," and "Three Sisters" to show how he successfully makes use of comedy and off-stage action.

From the Paper
"An example of this would be when there was a fire in Three Sisters. When Act Three is introduced, we learn that there was a fire from the narrative notes and from some of the dialogue, but the play is not in action while the fire is happening. The fire itself is not so important. What is important is how the characters react to it. The fire was merely a catalyst that set people off and made Act Three a hectic one. Natasha gets bossier towards servants, Chebutykin becomes a drunken mess and Irina becomes more frustrated and desperate to return to Moscow."

Tags:seagull, vanya

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This paper begins its analysis of Anton Checkhov's play, "The Seagull", with a look at the character Konstantin's general fixation with his mother as he envisions himself as a rival of Trigorin, his mother's lover. The paper then investigates the rivalry between Konstantin's mother and his girlfriend Nina, which is at least partially generated by Konstantin himself, and explains how the many similarities between Arkadina and Nina guarantee that Konstantin will never find satisfaction with either of them. The paper concludes that, even when Konstantin kills himself, he does not want to disturb his mother. His final thoughts are fixated on her.

From the Paper
"The tension between her and her son has already been clear, from her very first appearance--when she throws down a sort of gauntlet at him by quoting from arguably the most Oedipal scene in Hamlet, when Hamlet accosts his mother in her bedroom and reproaches her for her "incestuous" relationship with his uncle Claudius. Konstantin replies with defiance, giving not a direct quote but a paraphrase as a rebuttal. It's easy enough to recast this scene--with Arkadina as Gertrude, Trigorin as Claudius, and of course Konstantin as Hamlet."

Tags:destruction, suicide, oedipal, rivalry, jealousy

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This paper is a review of "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov. It is a play about family relationships. The cherry orchard belongs to Madame Ranevsky and is used a symbol for all that is beautiful about this character and her family, as well as all that is useless and futile. The writer looks at each characters perception of the orchard, which offers an insight into the weaknesses of these characters. The author argues that the fate of the cherry orchard reveals a death impulse as well as a life sustaining one in the play.

From the Paper
"Madame Ranevsky is a cultured woman of beauty and charm. However, she has recently come back from a trip to Europe with her daughter Anya. She is representative of the Russian aristocracy's love of all that is profligate, cultured, European, and non-Slavic. She does not work, and she contributes little to society. Her beauty is fading, but she still has a great deal of charm and personal attractiveness. However, she is losing her estate because of her spendthrift ways, losing the beauty of her way of life and the orchard because there is nothing to substantiate and economically sustain the orchard's beauty."

Tags:play, family, relationships, symbol, madame, ranevsky, beautiful, futile, useless, death

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An discussion of how Chekhov's writing style was inspired by his medical studies, as well as his love of the craft of writing, and his non-judgmental portrayal of characters.

From the Paper
"Anton Chekhov's writings possess both the rich detail of a master writer and the precise and deliberate sense of integrity of a doctor or scientist. In fact, Chekhov's first writings came about while he was studying medicine in the form of short humorous sketches that he wrote in order to help support himself and his family. After he completed his studies, Chekhov began practicing medicine but ultimately it was his writings that seized his passions and caused him to all but abandon medicine (Lantz, "Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich")."

Tags:pavlovich, Russia, author, writer

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This essay is a consideration of Anton Chekhov's short story "Heartache," a tale which considers the isolation and suffering of Iona, a cabman whose son has died and who finds himself entirely isolated in the city, with no one to whom he can unburden his terrible sorrow. The paper describes how eventually foresaking humans, who are caught up in their own lives, Iona turns to the one source of comfort, unburdening himself by talking to his horse.

From the Paper
"In "Heartache," Anton Chekhov paints a picture of a Russian cabman, Iona, enduring the pain of terrible grief. His son has just died a week earlier (Chekhov 124), and in his misery, Iona finds himself fundamentally isolated from everyone around him, unable to find any human to whom he can reach out to express the terrible pain he bears. For a week, he has wanted to unburden himself to someone, anyone, to bare his emotions to anyone who might be willing to listen (Chekhov 124). In the opening paragraphs of the story, Chekhov paints a picture of Iona as a man barely able to muster simple instincts for his own survival."

Tags:chekhov, cabman, grief

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The paper discusses Rattawut Lapcharoensap's "Sightseeing", is a first person narrative that describes a short vacation the protagonist and his mother took. The paper states that the story resembles the works of Anton Chekhov because of its symbolism, depression, and unpredictability. The paper then comments that every writer, has his own technique for writing a short story. However for reasons stated, different writers may seem to have identical ideas and style. The paper continues and discusses the comparative writing styles of Chekhov and Lapcharoensap and concludes that both writers' works are unique and exceptional, and both include symbolism, unpredictability, and endless conclusions.

From the Paper
"Reading about something out of the realm of normal experience---such as having a mother who is going blind--keeps the audience interested. Chekhov's stories differ in this respect. He connects with the reader because the events in his stories are universal in scope. Chekhov's stories focus on what it is like to be a human being. His themes are commonly found in the human condition and can be analyzed and seen through many different reader perspectives. Many interpretations can be made. Lapcharoensap's style and story is told through the first person with views that are only seen through his eyes. It's like he is telling the reader what to think. Chekhov never does that.His stories also do not have as much dialect as Lapcharoensap's do."

Tags:resemblance, writers

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This paper discusses that the title character, in Anton Chekhov's short story "Anyuta", is defined by her internal impoverishment. The author believes that Chekhov drew on his professional background as a doctor to explore Anyuta's psychological impoverishment. The author states that the reader feels sympathy for Anyuta for having no family, for being cold and probably hungry and for having been left by five men, until Anyuta's decision to remain a passive instrument of Stepan's advancement which shows that Anyuta is not only psychologically impoverished by circumstance but also by her own choices.

From the Paper
"The story opens with an image of Anyuta and Stepan Klochkov in a dirty apartment. The image introduces several pertinent clues about how to interpret Anyuta's character, before the reader even sees her interact with Stepan. First, the narrator has given Stepan a last name but declined to specify Anyuta's. One possible interpretation of this difference is that Stepan's identity in the world is more particular and concrete than Anyuta. A last name is usually a family name. The reader gets the sense that Stepan has a family, comes from somewhere, grounded by a historical past. Stepan has another possible interpretation of this differential naming, which may be reconcilable with the first interpretation, as the narrator has a stronger level of familiarity with Anyuta than Stepan, and so he introduces "Stepan Klochkov" to the reader formally."

Tags:choice, appearance, stepan, men, identity