Chekhov Essays

“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

This paper will argue that the character Olga in Chekhov’s “Darling” embodies the castrating mother/wife image and not the “submissive wife stereotype” as Milla Bayuk argues in her 1977 article[1].Bayuk’s misinterpretation is caused by the ambiguity between the levels of

Introduction Because of his experience and practice, Anton Chekhov’s style was very compressed and laconic. Chekhov’s short story The Darling is so laconic, so consistently concentrated, and its form is so many-layered, that if the reader wanted to comment on

             The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov’s magnum opus; of the 4 great plays which he has written, this is the one which comes closest to universality as well as to generalizations which embrace all men. The Cherry Orchard is a

Sometimes in life we have to learn lessons by passing through the messy tough times. Later realizing the differences in things. The gains and loses. In this case both stories seem to be losing something valuable yet gaining something that

I think what I really like about Chekhov is the way he uses words: he does them justice by acknowledging the power they have and the impact they can convey. He lets everything speak for itself, he does not put