Written by two different authors in two different, yet close centuries, “The Lady with the Dog” and The Master and Margarita had many similarities and differences. Though The Master and Margarita had many different aspects, characters, themes, and independent parts, making it an extremely complex novel, can be simply viewed as a love story, just as “The Lady with the Dog.”
To start, the Master in The Master and Margarita is a single man who falls for a married woman, Margarita. Margarita becomes the Master’s “secret wife.” In "The Lady with the Dog", Dmitri is a married man who falls for a married woman. Both the Master and Dmitri are tied to situations that does not allow them to be with the one that they love. In The Master and Margarita, the Master is unable to be with Margarita not only because of her husband, but also because of the book he wrote. This book was the cause of him getting thrown into the asylum. In "The Lady with the Dog", Dmitri is not able to be with his lover, because he is married, has three children, and because, his lover, Anna, is also married.
Furthermore, the Master and Dmitri had given up
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In each of the stories, the couples were separated. Dmitri and Anna in "The Lady with the Dog" because of their duty to their spouse and the fact that they lived in different towns. The Master and Margarita because of the Master’s book and the asylum he was placed in because of it.
I believe that the main difference between The Master and Margarita and "The Lady with the Dog" lies in who chased the other. In The Master and Margarita, it was Margarita who was willing to give up her husband and soul for the Master. She gave a lot of time and effort to help the Master with his book; Margarita chased the Master. In "The Lady with the Dog", Dmitri chased Anna. He once again, was willing to sacrifice his family and also Anna’s family by revealing himself without warning or regard to her
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
Thesis: In Kate Chopin's "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour," the wives seem to share the foul qualities of selfishness, unfaithfulness and confusion.
With the idea of a love that is forbidden it is looked down upon and can cause problems for the people who have fallen for its’ hidden desires. In the short story “Drown” by Junot Diaz, the main character Yunior is conflicted with his sexual preferences due to how his community would react to him being a homosexual. In the short story the “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov the main character Gurov finds love with a younger woman while still being married, despite the idea of even being with another woman at that time was strictly forbidden. Whereas Gurov and Yunior are different as Gurov handles a relationship due to having multiple affairs, while Yunior is confused about his relationship with his friend because of his homosexuality,
However, due to the narration of the books being different both books have different effects on the reader. Andrea narrates in a disengaged way where she doesn’t want the reader to sympathise for her but to listen to the struggles she went through as she uses a childlike lexicon narration, written in a curt way showing her stoicism. One the other hand, Masters narrates in a self-deprecating and adds humour to Stuarts misfortunes. Masters narrates in third person however he does the unusual that doesn’t happen in biographies and adds his own opinions in the book making himself a character as well. Both books are narrated different and are written in a different style but the way they narrate helps to generate
Furthermore, Anna, the woman who Dmitri is having an affair with, is married as well. And when she had began to think
In the novel, the theme of marriage is a fundamental one. The actual meaning of this marriage, however, receives differing clarifications. In a book by Alice van Buren Kelley, for example, an interpretation of the Ramsays’ marriage by Herbert Marder is considered: “Herbert Marder feels that Virginia Woolf ‘viewed marriage from two
Often, the circumstances of a marriage can leave the people involved feeling empty and unloved. These feelings of hopelessness can lead people to make uncharacteristic choices. Adultery, even in a marriage without love, can have a dramatic effect on the people involved. For the adulterous partner, the feelings of guilt and anxiety can often lead to overwhelming confusion. The short story "The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Oates, shows how the act of cheating creates confusion in the mind of the main character thorough use of an unchronological structure, and unusual character development.
The principal characters from the short stories, ‘’The Lady with the Dog’’ by Chekhov, and ‘’Hills like White Elephants’’ by Ernest Hemingway are dishonest with the one they love and with themselves, they hide their real feelings about the person they are with, they are living an untruthful relationship, and as a couple they lie to each other. In ‘’The Lady with The Dog’’, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, they are both unhappily married to other characters, and after a while they engage in an affair, hiding their feeling to each other, just because they do not want to break up their marriages, they do not want more responsibility of what they have with each other. The same matter happens in the ‘’Hills Like White Elephants’’, The American
... cope and so they suffer, yet the women find ways to cope with the evil. The men completely fall apart and suffer both physically and mentally. The women even save the men by helping them end their suffering. However, the women do it in very different ways. Sonya in Crime and Punishment turns to God, while Margarita in The Master and Margarita turns to the Devil. Both women realize that in order to end the suffering, they must find a way to escape from it
For example, they both are married, Gurov has children, and they live far from each other. By the way that Gurov pursues and describes Anna as another venture as she arrives on the pier, it implies in a way that he has cheated multiple times. Julian Connolly in Masterplots II: Short Story Series begins to describe Gurov’s character by saying, “Although he too is married, he has had many affairs, and he becomes excited by the prospect of having a brief affair with this stranger.” Therefore, it is infers that Gurov does not car and does not feel any remorse for having an affair on his wife because the act of infidelity has sort of become a reoccurring thing for him to partake in. Paul Levitt in “The Great and Gatsby and The Lady with a Dog” explained that even though Chekhov created Gurov to only look at the potential of gaining pleasure in the beginning, that all changed when he began to fall in love with her(Levitt). Their relationship started to become serious as soon as Gurov and Anna had sex in the hotel. Connolly addresses the place of events and the feelings that Anna has by saying, “Suddenly, on an impulse, he embraces her and kisses her. He then suggests that they go to her room. The next scene portrays Anna Sergeevna and Gurov in her room; they have just made love for the first time. She is distraught because she feels guilty, not
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
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.
First, the characters understand that their relationship is based on future aspirations and second, they have historical relationship disappointments. This third insight into the psychology of love supports the fact that many relationships and marriages often fail because of unrealistic expectations. Psychology research SHOWS that individual expectations for relationships actually sows the seeds of discontent. People are expected to provide not only provide safety, security and support, but also facilitate personal growth and freedom. Even though they come from an older period in history, Anna and Dmitri are stereotypical people who have unhappy pasts and hopeful futures. They are thrown into an intense relationship with limited mutual understanding. Chekhov’s limited dialogue and straightforward narrative leaves plenty of cognitive room for readers to ruminate about their own experiences and how they relate to the
The vast interpretations and multiple meanings that lie within Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita cannot be limited or reduced to just a singular point or explanation. It would be ludicrous for one to simply classify Bulgakov’s work as just a religious, ethical, social or political tract because the enforcement of only one of these points of view would hinder the reader’s insight into the depth of the entire novel. However, it is possible to be able to grasp the many themes and meanings of The Master and Margarita by the examination of one of the novel’s central characters, this character is found in both narratives of the novel and his name is Woland or, as he is also known, the devil. Woland is the most important character in the novel because he entices the people of Moscow, whether they want to or not and whether they are conscious of it or not, to rebel against the order of which they are accustomed too and to gain a new found sense of liberation. Colin Wright, in his work Mikhail Bulgakov: Life and Interpretations, writes, “And here we find the key to the whole book for, as we have seen, it is the individual non-conformists who are Bulgakov’s heroes, those who rebel – whether against God or man” (270). It is understandable that Bulgakov, having written this work in an oppressive surrounding that limited what he could and could not write, creates a hero who is in fact a rebel and other characters that are rebellious against those who stifle artistic freedom. In Vladimir Tumanov’s essay, Diabolus ex Machina: Bulgakov’s Modernist Devil, the author writes, “In this respect the modernist qualities of Bulgakov’s novel acquire a new dimension because Master i Margarita becomes a kind of artistic devil, fulfilli...
... 1800s. Therefore, they both were written during a time when divorce was not usually an option and seen as a very negative thing, whereas now it is much more widely accepted. Something that makes the stories different, however, is that Dmitri and Anna clearly wanted to be together, whereas Calixta and Alcee did not, they simply needed a release and burst of freedom from their loving spouses. “The Storm” has a positive ending for all characters and everything is better than ever before, and “The Lady with the Pet Dog” had a melancholy ending, when they realized that they could never truly be together in this lifetime and they would most likely always be unhappy in their marriages.