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Anton Chekhov
Ivan Dmitritch is a middle class man who lives with his family. He is well contented as he sits on the sofa reading the paper. His wife is clearing the dishes. She asks her husband to check the...
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Anton Chekhov
In The Proposal by Anton Checkov, the theme is that marriage is not as romantic as some people believe. The theme is based on two people who love each other by fighting. Lomov and Natayla act like...
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Anton Chekhov
The story that the student tells his audience about the Apostle Peter at first seems to be a story of despair that perfectly captures his mood as he returns home and is full of sadness at the...
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Anton Chekhov
One way to see how Chekhov addresses the greed in human nature and its ability to destroy relationships would be in observing Ivan's and Masha's reactions when confronted with the idea that they...
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Anton Chekhov
Most of the symbolism in Anton Chekhov's The Proposal, also known as A Marriage Proposal , consists on the very things that make Lomov, Natalia (his intended fiancee) and Stepan (her father) fight...
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Anton Chekhov
A Marriage Proposal is a farce written by Russian author Anton Chekhov. The play is less about the marriage proposal between two members of the gentry and more about the constant fights they get...
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Anton Chekhov
The theme as I understand it is the dissociation between earned wealth and inherited wealth. Liza, the only child of a prominent and wealthy iron-working family, is taken ill. The visiting doctor...
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Anton Chekhov
In Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull, Masha is just one of many characters who feels unrequited love for another person. The daughter of the managers of Sorin’s estate, Masha is a depressed...
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Anton Chekhov
This short story by Chekhov concerns a student who reflects on his own life and history and initially sees nothing but despair. As he sits by a fire and recounts the story of St. Peter from the...
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Anton Chekhov
A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov, sometimes called simply The Proposal is a one-act farce that moves quickly through the use of hilarious dialogue and situational humor. With three exaggerated...
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Anton Chekhov
This short story is built around the use of irony and the differing reactions of one character to the reactions of his family to the situation he is so joyful about. The story begins as one...
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Anton Chekhov
"The Lottery Ticket" is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in Russia in the year 1887. Within the story, a man named Ivan Dmitritch, who has always been "very well satisfied with his...
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Anton Chekhov
Before the application of the bet, the banker had argued that life in prison was worse than capital punishment (death). The lawyer argued that death was clearly worse. To prove that imprisonment is...
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Anton Chekhov
I think that one distinct theme out of Chekhov's short story is how every step towards creation is a step towards destruction. Ivan and Masha are content living with their conditions before they...
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Anton Chekhov
The request made at the end of Chekhov's "A Problem" is truly an upsetting ending to the story. Sasha asks (or a more proper word would be "forces") Ivan to give him the hundred rubles, proving...
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Anton Chekhov
The narrator of "The Confession" is the rather foolhardy and unfortunate Gregory Kuzmich, who has recently received a promotion to the position of cashier, which gives him access to the cashbox of...
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Anton Chekhov
In the short story "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov, the author starts out innocently enough, to detail the minute by minute emotions of a Victorian couple who suspect they may have won the...
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Anton Chekhov
The conflict in "Lucero" is essentially to do with luck. Since both Ruben and the traveler fired at the same time, neither is in the wrong. The internal conflict is something Ruben must face if he...
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Anton Chekhov
The complete quote reads: "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." The source is the play "Uncle Vanya" I read that a variation of this quote is...
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Anton Chekhov
In A Marriage Proposal, Chekhov satirizes the courtship rituals of the upper class by emphasizing the land exchange between two wealthy families over love in the proposal scene. Lomov begins his...
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Anton Chekhov
In Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Dog,” the main character, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, has an ambivalent relationship with women. Even though he thinks that women are inferior to...
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Anton Chekhov
Many of Chekhov's stories deal with loneliness, and the difficulty of communicating with others. In this sense he is a distinctly modern, existential writer. For example, in "The Lament" (sometimes...
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Anton Chekhov
The climax of a story is its point of highest tension or crisis. All through the story, Iona, a poor man who drives a horse and cab in freezing, snowy Russian weather, wants to tell someone of his...
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Anton Chekhov
With his detached artfulness, Anton Chekhov creates conflicts within a seemingly complacent marriage, conflicts that are generated by the idea of money. For, when the middle-class Ivan Dmitritch,...
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Anton Chekhov
Interesting question. Most teachers stress the basic conflict types. Man vs man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, and man vs. self are the most basic conflict forms. At the beginning of the...
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Anton Chekhov
The narrator of Anton Checkhov's short story "The Confession" is a man of relatively little sophistication and not enough malice to realize that he has been played for a fool by the people around...
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Anton Chekhov
Themes for this one act play by Chekhov that is a comedy or a satire, include making fun of romance and marriage. Chekhov examines the true nature of marriage, an institution of necessity in his...
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Anton Chekhov
To me, the theme of this story is that it is best for people to be content with what they have and not to start dreaming of things that (they think) will be much better than what they have. The...
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Anton Chekhov
The theme of "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov is that people will not change their bad habits unless they have paid for them. This passage from the Bible can be a statement of theme: And God saw that...
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Anton Chekhov
The theme of "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov is the insidiously exciting but destructive nature of envy and desire for material possessions. In the exposition of Chekhov's story, Ivan...
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Anton Chekhov
In "A Marriage Proposal," there is an indication that the intentions of Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov to marry his neighbor stems from something other than love because Natalia, who has lived near him...
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Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's fast-paced one-act play is a farce about aristocratic marriages. A cynic about love and marriage, Chekhov employs a far-fetched humorous situation and ridiculous stereotypes in this...
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Anton Chekhov
The point of view in Chekhov's story "A Problem" is that of the young college student Sasha Uskov, although Chekhov does not make this fact conspicuous. Sasha is sitting "in the hall by the door...
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Anton Chekhov
In Anton Checkhov's short story "The Confession", Gregory Kuzmich narrates how his world changed after he was given the position of cashier. Although the position does not grant too much extra...
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Anton Chekhov
According to Carol A. Flath ("Art and Idleness: Chekhov's 'The House with a Mezzanine'"), one of Chekhov's signature themes is the contrast between work and idleness. As Flath says, this theme is...
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Anton Chekhov
The main theme of "Peasants" is a painfully ironic one. Chekhov shows that in order to be a good peasant like Olga and Sasha became, you have to first be a good person. Nikolay says he became a...
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Anton Chekhov
"Joy" is an excellent short story focusing on the very different responses to the indiscretion of the central protagonist. The title is extremely ironic, as the "joy" experienced by Mitya Kuldarov...
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Anton Chekhov
In his short story "The Lottery Ticket," Anton Chekhov satirizes people's inability to maintain their contentment or to generate their own happiness. With irony, Chekhov begins his story by...
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Anton Chekhov
In “Sleepy” or “Sleepy-Eyed” by Anton Chekhov, the main character is a thirteen year-old Russian girl. Varka works for a couple during the day time in a never ending job that appears too...
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Anton Chekhov
The views of love presented in "The Man in a Shell" and Romeo and Juliet seem to have nothing in common at all, so you might say they are different in every regard. Marva, the wife of the Elder,...
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Anton Chekhov
In a farce, such as "The Proposal" by Anton Chekhov, characters are painted in broad, uncomplicated strokes. In other words, their gestures and reactions are often stereotypical, and there are no...
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov's "The Proposal" is usually classified as a farce, rather than satire, because it is a short work that focuses on a single idea in a limited way with comical stereotypes such as the...
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Anton Chekhov
"The Chameleon," at only four pages, is one of Chekhov's shortest short stories. Despite this, it is crammed with the psychological acuity and profound moral insight one would expect from its...
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Anton Chekhov
[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. If you have additional questions, please post them separately.] Anton Chekov's humorous one-act play, entitled "The Proposal"...
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Anton Chekhov
The setting in "The Lottery Ticket" is the modest home of a middle class family. This is stated in the first sentence: Ivan Dmitritch, a middle class man who lived with his family on an income of...
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Anton Chekhov
In Chekov's "The Lottery Ticket", the husband and wife's conversation goes from joyful to serious. In the short story, Ivan Dmitritch and his wife, Masha, mistakenly believe they have won a...
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Anton Chekhov
A ridiculous figure befitting farce, Ivan Vassilievich Lomov is a personnage whose defining character is his lack of character. For his attempts to prove his manliness fail as he seeks a wife to...
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Anton Chekhov
Most of the humor in "The Chameleon" is satirical, poking fun at the overly hierarchical and deferential nature of society in Tsarist Russia. The main character of the story, Otchumyelov, is an...
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Anton Chekhov
Unfortunately you asked two questions, and according to enotes regulations you are only allowed to ask one. I have therefore edited your question accordingly. In this classic short story family...
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Anton Chekhov
In "A Problem," Sasha is a rounded character—meaning he displays a variety of character traits. Sasha comes across as a selfish, spoiled person who is blind to his shortcomings. However, the...