Essays on The Lady With The Dog

In his works, Chekhov paid great attention to the world of complicated, and often unpredictable actions of the human soul, especially to the feeling of love. Indeed, love is the greatest, lightest, and most beautiful feeling, but the 19th century imposed restrictions on it, thus making this form of passion legislated by only one marriage that took place in people's lives once and for all. As a result, love appeared to be just of the elements of a daily life. In Chekhov's times, it would be considered normal to have a marriage of convenience, however, a person that lives ...

Classic English Literature

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine in 1860, was a physician who wrote short stories and plays. While he spent his early years under the shadow of his father's religious fanaticism, he managed to support his medical studies by taking tuitions. As a doctor, Chekov spent his daytime caring for the needy while he spent the nights writing. His medical background is clearly evident in much of his plays as evidenced by the apathy many of his characters show towards tragic events. His plays and short stories are influenced by his doctoral research at the penal ...

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Smith, Virginia Llewellyn “The Ending of the Story.” Anton Chekhov and the Lady with the Dog (1973): 221–22. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Web 3 April 2013. Smith begins this piece of literary criticism by observing that the situation in Anton Chekov’s The Lady with the Dog is trite. Consequently the value of this work is in the intricate balance between poetry and prose, in characterization and in the inherent ordinary themes. Smith asserts that in The Lady with the Dog Chekov does not force opinions on the readers but rather leaves them to make ...

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First and Second paragraph page 1 Body of Essay This close reading essay takes the first two paragraphs of the first page. Among the things of key interest that this essay seeks to observe in these two paragraphs includes its rhetorical features, the structural elements of the text, references of culture alluded in the two paragraphs, and historical elements. These elements will be fundamental in laying out a basis upon which key patterns within the text can be identified. After the identifications of key patterns of the above mentioned elements this close reading essay seeks to give interpretations ...