DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Leo Tolstoy, Irony, Classical High School
25 Apr 2013
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Chekhov usually considered amongst one of the biggest russian writers. He was born under pretty modest means and spent a lot of time trying to fit in with the nobles (like. Chekhov gives us reticence and hesitation in his characters, and a series of attitudes rather than moods in his plays. Anton chekhov"s the cherry of the orchard: the drama of the undramatic . We started the first lecture by asking if hedda gabler was really real or not. Many of the characters in the play are told what to do throughout the play. They enter the play with high hopes, but it is doubtful that their hopes will ever be realized. They see that they have not changed during the play and will not be able to. They don"t quite fit in the world around them, they are helpless rather than helpful. Characters cannot face the fact that they are all human.
