There is a meeting in everyone‘s life that changes the path of your life in other direction. In the novel The Lady with The Little Dog, Anton Chekhov shows the life of those who think that chasing women and committing adultery can be considered like a part of the game in life. The main character of the novel, Dimitri Dmitritch Gurov finds his pleasure to chase women, even those who are married just to have fun. He rules his life on that way until the day he will fall in love with Anna Sergeyevna, also called the lady with the pet dog. However, he will also experiment the other side of a relationship, the side made by the bond and love.
In the first part of The Lady with The Pet Dog, Chekov presents Gurov like a man who has no respect for women. To begin Chekov mention the relationship Gurov has with his own wife. In fact Gurov does not respect his wife. Chekov states, “He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago. Had been unfaithful to her often, and, probably on that account, almost always spoke ill of women, when they were talked about in his presence used to call them “the lower race.” This first description by Chekov showed that Gurov lives with complex toward women. He already stated in his mind that they are
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lower than men. Moreover he is applying this philosophy in his own relationship with his wife by betraying her. He does not respect his wife as his kids either. Regarding the relationship of Gurov with others women, Chekov represents Gurov like a playboy. The type of man who is just looking for extramarital affairs. First, he thinks that to chase a woman and have an affair, it is just a nice game. In fact Chekov states, “Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and irresolute -- every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable. But at every fresh meeting with an interesting woman this experience seemed to slip out of his memory, and he was eager for life, and everything seemed simple and amusing. It is clear that Chekov emphasize on the fact that Gurov is aware about the complexity that come from those casual relationships, but he is still continuing to chase women just for his selfish pleasure. He run after women without compassion for them. Moreover, he is getting pleasure for being a playboy because he is repeated so many times the experience with different women. He ran after many women just for his own pleasure without any compassion for the outcome in their life. It is clear that Gurov is the perfect representation of the sexiest man. His idea about women leads him to do not respect his marriage by betraying his wife, and chasing women just for a game. Also he lives in a contradiction because for someone who has a mother and raise a daughter , think that woman are lower race , means also that his mother and his daughter are just members of the lower race. In addition, Gurov lives in a big contradiction because by considering women like lower human class, it means that his Mother, his wife and his daughter also belong to this category. However, because everyone has to learn one day of life; Gurov also failed of his game and learnt something about love. Next, the author mentioned the new chasing of Gurov, a woman with the little dog. Gurov as usual succeed to reach the woman and have an affair with her. However, this time he faces the difficulties to not be able to get over her like always. In fact, he thought that everything will be fine after they would part, but for the first time he is tortured by his memories. He feels bored after the separation of the lady with the pet dog. He tries to go back to his regular life, but he realized that the image of Anna Sergeyevna, the lady with the little dog could not be shrouded in his memory. Chekov states to illustrate that torment of Gurov‘s mind, “Anna Sergeyevna did not visit him in dreams, but followed him about everywhere like a shadow and haunted him. In the evenings, she peeped out at him from the bookcase, from the fireplace, from the corner—he heard her breathing, the caressing rustle of her dress. In the street he watched the women, looking for someone like her”. Chekhov almost describes the torment of the one who before Anna thought that commit an adultery with people of the lower race would be just a game. If he did not feel anything wrong about the sin, he was now under the control of his emotions. Simply, he was falling in love with that woman. Then, Gurov realized that it was more than an affair. This time Gurov, the predator was also caught in the cage of his emotions, the cage of his feelings. He was also under the influence of an individual of the lower race. The following paragraphs of the novel showed how Gurov went until to take the risk to try to meet her again. Chekov said how he prepared himself for a journey to Petersburg in order to talk with her. Once he reached in Petersburg, he was patient until he met that woman. However, even though they can be together because they really loved each other like people very close, Gurov and Anna had to hide themselves due to the immoralities of their relationship. Their relationship is made with love and depression. The depression comes from the fact that they cannot share this love in public because both of them are married. With this image, Chekov also shows the complexity of the life. Anna and Gurov love each other, but they are married to others. While the marriage is supposed to be made for people who love each other’s. Also, once Gurov met Anna and got into a relationship with her, he becomes someone new; he stopped chasing women. In fact, Chekov states, “They forgave each other for what they were ashamed of in their pasts, they forgave everything in the present, and felt that this love of theirs had changed them both”.By saying this Chekov emphasize of their awareness of the change that they got from the fact they love each others. They become better person because they have atoned with their past. In sum, The Lady with the Pet Dog is an impressive story that shows well the ambiguity of life.
Gurov who is a married man, and who got the bad reputation to commit adultery without punishment, became a new man not because he repented of his sin, but because for the first time he really fell in love of someone that he also got by this sin. In addition, the complexity come from the fact that both of them are married, but do not love their partners. Finally, who has to be blamed? The people who live in the sin or just the life, which bring the right people in their life after they already got the married. The moral behind this story is to avoid quickly condemning others because only God knows the real reason behind the problem of everyone in
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Why Do Female Dogs Hump? It’s hard to answer in one sentence. The “humping” issue that almost all dog fanciers face has many reasons. It is true that female dogs are less likely to hump than male dogs are. However, female canines practice this embarrassing behavior from puppyhood into adulthood. Most people think that it is natural and funny to look at but such behavior is considered to be inappropriate and must be nipped in bud by the dog owner.
The following paper will focus on one of the most characteristically types of work for Chekhov: “The Lady and the Pet Dog”. Our aim is to portrait the character of Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov, in the context of the story, extracting those elements that are characteristic for the period in which Chekhov wrote the story.
The conflict between good and evil is one of the most common conventional themes in literature. Coping with evil is a fundamental struggle with which all human beings must contend. Sometimes evil comes from within a character, and sometimes other characters are the source of evil; but evil is always something that the characters struggle to overcome. In two Russian novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, men and women cope with their problems differently. Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment and the Master in The Master and Margarita can not cope and fall apart, whereas Sonya in Crime and Punishment and Margarita in The Master and Margarita, not only cope but pull the men out of their suffering.
This story mostly takes place in a vacation spot called Yalta. Throughout the whole story Yalta is explained as peaceful, romantic and with magical surroundings. The weather is warm and the scenery consists of white clouds over the mountaintops. The flowers smell of sweat fragrance and there is a gold streak from the moon on the sea. The two main character’s Gurov and Anna visit this vacation spot to get away from the lives that they are unhappy with. Both are unhappily married. The author explains Gurov as a women’s man, women are always attracted to him. However he thinks of women as the lower race. Knowing that women liked him, he always just played the game. He was always unfaithful to his wife. When he sees’s Anna walking around in Yalta with her dog he thought of it as just another fling. The character Anna is a good honest woman. When she is unfaithful to her husband for the first time she starts to cry to Gurov. She explains how she despises herself for being a low woman. This was the first time a person was not happy with Gurov. The soon realizes that she is unlike other women and describes her as strange and inappropriate. The story then takes a twist and Anna is to return home to her husband who is ill. This was their excuse that they need to part ways forever and stop this affair. Yet when Gurov returned home to Moscow he found himself lost without her. The
Rich, beautiful, and married to a successful man, Anna should be the height of happiness. And she is, until meeting the handsome Vronsky who steals her heart, though she won’t admit it. Even when he professes his love to her, she can only respond with, “’If you love me as you say,’ she said, ‘then let me be at peace’” (Tolstoy 166). Whispers have been going around about the two of them, and this request from Anna shows that she’s truly making an effort to hide her feelings and have the perfect life. With the risk of unpleasantness from both society and her husband, becoming a man’s mistress is out of the question. However, for a single night, Anna pushes aside her hesitations to be with Vronsky, which later results in Ana becoming pregnant. Now facing the realization that she is going to have a child not of her husband, Anna decides to come clean with Karenin, “I love him, I’m his mistress, I can’t bear it, I’m afraid-I hate you…You can do whatever you like with me” (Tolstoy 254). With the truth finally out, and the lovers listening to their hearts, perhaps everyone could have a happy ending. Except that Anna soon becomes afraid that she is losing Vronsky’s love, and becomes frantic. The crushing blow for Anna was knowing it wouldn’t get better. She risked it all, her husband, her child, her status, and her way of life for a man she thought cherished her above all else. To believe
Chekhov reminds the readers that Anna is young compared to Gurov. Chekhov’s novel states, “As he went to bed he reminded himself that only a short time ago she had been a schoolgirl, like his own daughter” (3). The images of Anna being a schoolgirl not too long ago, when Gurov has a daughter of similar age, brings the sense of abnormality between the relationship of Gurov and Anna. It’s hard to imagine such a huge difference in lovers especially in the strict culture of Russia in the late 19th century where these occasions were unthought-of. The uncomforting thought of the difference in age goes back to differ the meanings of love and romance in the novel because against all odds and differences, Anna and Gurov hide away from these obvious facts. The thought of love in this culture is between a man and woman of similar age. According to Chekhov’s novel, “He was sick of his children, sick of the bank, felt not the slightest desire to go anywhere or talk about anything” (9). Chekhov’s description of sickness reveals that Gurov has a huge moment of denial, denial of family and denial of age. This denial of age, helps Gurov cope with the oddities of their relationship, the oddities of the love they had with the characteristics of a romance. Gurov was trying to change the definition of their relationship on his own mental terms. While Gurov was trying to bring out a spontaneous, younger
Anton Chekhov and Ernest Hemingway both convey their ideas of love in their respective stories The Lady with the Pet Dog and Hills like White Elephants in different ways. However, their ideas are quite varying, and may be interpreted differently by each individual reader. In their own, unique way, both Chekhov and Hemingway evince what is; and what is not love. Upon proper contemplation, one may observe that Hemingway, although not stating explicitly what love is; the genius found in his story is that he gives a very robust example of what may be mistaken as love, although not being true love. On the other hand, Chekhov exposes love as a frame of mind that may only be achieved upon making the acquaintance of the “right person,” and not as an ideal that one may palpate at one instance, and at the another instance one may cease to feel; upon simple and conscious command of the brain. I agree with Hemingway’s view on love because it goes straight to the point of revealing some misconceptions of love.
“The Lady with the Pet Dog” exhibits Anton Chekhov’s to convey such a powerful message in a minimal amount of words. He uses the element of color to show the emotions as well as changing feelings of the main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and the contrast of them being apart to them being together. For example, when Anna leaves and they are apart, Dmitri seems to live in a world of grey. As he begins to age, his hair begins to turn grey, and he is usually sporting a grey suit. Yalta is where they met, and it is described as a romantic spot filled with color and vibrancy and freedom, like when Chekhov writes “the water was of a soft warm lilac hue, and there was a golden streak from the moon upon it.”
In the story of “The Lady or the Tiger” there is a king that is semi-barbaric. The king has a daughter and she is a little barbaric herself and because they are a barbaric family they have a way of taking care of crime. They will have a lady and a tiger in two doors and if someone commits a crime or if the king doesn't like the person then the person will be put in the dome and will have to chose one of the doors. If they pick the door with the tiger in it that means that they are guilty of their crime and they will be eaten by the tiger and if they choose the door with the lady then it will mean that they get out scoot free. But there is a catch to it if they choose the lady then they will have to marry the lady even if they have a wife and family.
In The Darling, Anton Chekhov tells the story of Olga Semyonovna, a woman who is empty without love in her life. Olga is widowed twice, takes a lover who leaves her, and eventually focuses on her old lover's child as the object of her obsession. In all these relationships, she takes on the ideas and emotions of her companion. She smothers the boy, Sasha, with so much attention that he cries out in his sleep. Olga's capacity to love is infinite, but that love is a parasitical and debilitating one.
"The Bear," which is a classic one-act play written 1900, is one of the great works of Anton Chekhov, which is very much about a widowed woman. The Bear can be regarded as a comedy since it is to give the audience entertainment and amusement. This comedy reveals the fine line between anger and passion. The theme is about a strange beginning of love between Mrs. Popov and Smirnov. It demonstrated that love changes all things it touches. Dialogue of the characters, the action of the characters, and the characters themselves shape the theme. Unbelievable actions and change in mood on the part of the characters show that love can sometimes come from an odd turn of events.
The story “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov, illustrates a woman that is lonely, insecure, and lacking wholeness of oneself without a man in her life. This woman, Olenka, nicknamed “Darling” is compassionate, gentle and sentimental. Olenka is portrayed for being conventional, a woman who is reliant, diligent, and idea less. Although, this story portrays that this woman, known as the Darling needs some sort of male to be emotionally dependant upon, it is as if she is a black widow, she is able to win affection, but without respect. Only able to find happiness through the refection of the beliefs of her lovers, she never evolves within the story.
The motif of infidelity is predominantly evident in the love affair between Vronsky and Anna. From their very first encounter at the train station, it was clear that this relationship was destined for destruction. Their relationship takes on a very deceptive and superficial quality. Vronsky knew from the very beginning about Anna’s marital status, yet this did not dissuade his attraction to her, or his adulterous relationship with her later on. It is important to note that it is Vronsky’s frivolous nature that is responsible for his inability to fully love Anna with the passion that she so desperately needs from him. Vronsky initially believes that he loves Anna, but Tolstoy shows the reader that Vronsky’s love for her is not absolute. His love is not based upon firm emotional commitment, and it is easily questioned and redefined. Eventually, Anna’s love becomes burdensome to him because he remains steeped in the pursuit of his own freedom and pleasures, without placing importance on Anna’s tormented existence. Vronsky is dishonest with himself. He begins a relationship that he is not ready for. He believes that he can love Anna in “the right way,” yet he cannot. Their relationship will be destroyed not by an outside party but by their own hands.
As a kid, I fell in love with the idea of getting a puppy for Christmas. Wrapped in a small box with a bow on top sitting under the tree just like the movies and tv shows I had seen. I can remember making a Christmas list of all the things I wanted that year, and every year the same thing that I wanted had said “puppy” with it underlined so that my mother knew which was my favorite on the list. Every year no surprise, I didn’t find a dog. I never understood why I never received one. When the kids at school talked about the few dogs they had at home made me so jealous, but I hoped that one day it would be me to have my own best friend at home.
The ability to observe different varieties of things on a daily basis is a huge part of everyone’s lives. The power of the individual mind comes from its capacity to apply these observations, which may sometimes incorporate some misconceptions that result in dire repercussions. In “The Devil,” Leo Tolstoy tells the story of Evgeny Irtenev, a young man who finds himself in a position of relentless lust after inheriting his father’s country estate. Before finding the right woman to marry as well as being accustomed to readily available sexual services, Evgeny arranges numerous encounters with a married peasant woman, who he continues to see until he meets his prospective wife. After being in a perceivably happy marriage for more than a year,