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.
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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
In the story, The Lady with the Dog, Chekhov uses the characters to demonstrate how humans deal with the emotional complexities of love, dissatisfaction, and freedom. To demonstrate the complexities of emotions, the author uses the complicated affair of Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna. In The Lady with the Dog the emotional complexities of the characters prove that emotions can be painful and difficult like a battle.
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
Mrs. Wright and Margarita are timely examples of the age old saying, "You've pushed me too far." Both of them were pushed throughout life to live up to someone else's expectations and in their own way they break and handle it they only way they know how. The women are under constant pressure to be someone that another person expects them to be and both women begin giving in to the expectations they can no longer live up to. Mrs. Wright lashes out in revenge while Margarita gives in and almost falls to her death. The characters both symbolize exactly what overwhelming emotions can do to a person and how in fact they may handle it.
“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.”
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.
Although both “Lady with the Pet Dog” and “Yellow Woman” were written in different time periods both of their content are still relatable. The setting that both stories have is strong enough to set the plot, point of view, and the characters. The plot relates to the setting because the setting is what really sets up the plot for both stories. The plot is that both of the characters in the story find themselves in an affair. The point of view that the stories take on are somewhat relatable since they are both taking on the narrator 's point of view through the majority of their stories. The characters relate to each other more than the others do because they have both realized that they do not need to have affairs. Both characters find themselves in a deeper meaning of life than how they started the story. Both protagonists ended the story relating to one another. Leslie Marmon Silko and Anton Chekhov wrote their stories to relate their lives and although Chekov’s story “Lady with the Pet Dog” does not have a concise conclusion, it still gives the reader an understanding about what the main character was going though. Silko and Chekov relate their real life and put them down into their stories and they share the ability to show how the setting can shape the major points in a
"The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator" (188). This "darkness," or the thunderstorms which are conjured throughout Bulgakov's mysterious and controversial novel The Master and Margarita seem to come with a reason. Each time, they bring a revelation of the capacity of certain characters and a vision of some higher power, one which may be above Woland and his multiple identities, one that may be connected with the peace-loving Yeshua and his philosophy of goodness, and more powerful than the power-hungry Pilate. They swallow everything, erase the boundaries between good and evil, rational and irrational-overall, they are a manifestation of that higher power, whatever it may be.
Anton Chekhov and Joyce Carol Oates created different perspectives on the short story “The Lady with the Pet Dog.” Chekhov’s version offers a less dramatic and more comprehensible approach to the story’s situation.They express their ideas through their own unique structure, concept of fate, and character’s guilt.
“The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov, is a story about love and admiration. Dmitri loved Anna because she seemed to be so much like himself for they are both in unhappy loveless marriages. I
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.
Gurov changed the most as a man first off because he was very disrespectful towards women until he met Anna. It started off with him just trying to have sex to him developing feelings for her which changed his outlook on women. John Childs in “The Lady with a Dog” states, “Anna perceives her own ambivalence; she realizes that even while she despises herself for her infidelity and is made miserable by a potentially tragic future, she is thrilled by the richer life she secretly shares with Gurov (Childs).” In a sense, Anna has changed throughout the story as well because she used to despise herself and feel guilty for stepping out of her marriage, but toward the end of the story, she realizes that she can not mask the feelings she has for Gurov by taking a leap of faith and hoping for the
Both works are similar in the theme of love and marriage, conflicts, and surprising endings. However, they differ in the way the husbands are portrayed throughout the story. Both protagonist in the stories are strong woman who were battling feminine problems of the 19th century. Wiether it was class status or the expected role of women, each woman was unique in the way they handle their conflict in society. These pieces were used to speak out and bring light to issues that common women faced during the time period. The lasting effects of the stories encouraged women to work hard to be who they want in
As it can be seen from the characteristics of the two servants, they have some differences. These differences not only affect their characteristics but also their relationships with others too. In the book we can see two servants with different relationships with the same person who is Prosp...
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...
In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard has a heart trouble. People think she will have a heart attack if they just tell her the truth. But after they tell her that her husband is dead, she unlike many women that with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance, she just weeps once and goes back to her own room and locks the door. But after she meditates for a while, she realizes that the death of her husband can bring her freedom. And a monstrous joy appears, she knew that there would be no powerful will bending her and she could be free no matter in body and in soul. Kate Chopin wanted to show us a long term marriage can “kill” the romance. For example, in “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. and Mr. Mallard loved each other before they married. But after their marriage, Mrs. Mallard didn’t love Mr. Mallard anymore, maybe sometimes she did. But in most of the time, their marriage became a trap of Mrs. Mallard. She thought she lived for her husband but not herself in this marriage and she was young, with a hair and calm face before they were married, after his death, she can live for herself, this is the “freedom” that Mrs. Mallard thought of.