YaltaThe 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 Dog” is one of Chekhov’s best known love stories. It is interesting to read this story because it tells us about everyday life occurrence: two married people fall in love and don’t know what to do with it. The main characters are Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna Von Diderits. And what is interesting is that neither of them is very remarkable. Gurov “was under forty, but he had a daughter already twelve years old, and two sons at school”. Anna Sergeyevna was a “fair-haired young lady of medium height”.
As we can see, they were simple people. And how could it happen that these people fall in love? Of course conditions play here a very big role. Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna were having rest in such a romantic place like Yalta. They had no worries, no problems; they were just enjoying the surrounding harmony: “the leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace…”(222).
The Essay on Ill Always Love You Short Story
Good night mom and dad; I'll see you in the morning, and I'm really sorry." Tiffany said as she trudged up the stairs. It was just a couple days before Christmas, and ever since Tiffany and Megan had goten out of school for Christmas break, Megan had spent every night with her boyfriend, Derrick. "I always have to be home by 10:00 no matter what. It's not fair; I'm 15 years old, I'm not a child ...
In such an atmosphere it is hard not to fall in love.
Neither Gurov nor Anna Sergeyevna thinks that their love has continuation: “We are parting forever – it must be so, for we ought never to have met… ”(223) And really! Their love has no “happy end”. Don’t forget that Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna are married people. Of course, it is obvious that they are unhappy in their marriages. For example: “… he (Gurov) secretly considered her (his wife) unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home. ” But why is it so?
The problem is that there were strong patriarchal attitude to love and marriage in Russia of 19th century. It was normal and usual to get married not because of love, but because of profit or parent’s agreement. People got married only to get profit, but not to be happy with the lovely person. In “The Lady with the Dog” there is no any elevation and sweetness of love, everything is real. To show it Chekhov uses economical language and never says more than he needs. He conveys emotional complexity in just a few words, thus preserving the intensity of his character’s feelings.
For example, on first seeing Anna at the theater in her hometown, Chekhov expresses Dmitri’s romantic yearning with the passage: “she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lornette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy … He thought and dreamed. ” Chekhov convincingly shows us incredible love of ordinary, unremarkable, “little” people. They can’t cope with their feeling of love and they surely can’t dare to break their previous unhappy marriages and be together.
Gurov is afraid of his wife, and Anna doesn’t want to hurt her husband. However, in reality both of them fear to change usual lifestyles. They continue to meet secretly in order to “grab” a grain of life happiness, but happiness is artificial and not genuine. Chekhov leaves the story open and suggests the reader to guess the ending. Ad this is what makes me think: “Could these people be together? ” Personally my answer is “no”, because neither Gurov, nor Anna want to achieve something in life and the meaning of their lives is not love. They are just too weak to break the routine.
The Term Paper on Catcher In The Rye Holden Life People
Part one: 1. Holden s Hunting cap: His hat is something that makes him stand out from the crowd and society. To Holden, wearing his hat says that he s not going to be like all the rest of the phonies. It s also something that he really likes and he constantly talks about it being different. On page 22 he refers to his hat as a people shooting hat, meaning he shoots people down when he wears it ...
