Focus on Point of View
The Lady with the Pet Dog – Anton Chekhow
1) The person who made that statement is only looking at the aspect of betrayal. I agree the main characters are selfish and irresponsible but for different reasons. I think they should come forward and admit their love, even though it may hurt as adults. I do not think the entire story is immoral because it still shows the reality of passionate love that can happen between two people, and the tragedy of finding the person you love so late in life.
2) Gurov’s view of women as an “inferior race” changed throughout the tale. The reader can see that Anna changed his mentally and personality. Gurov needed that women so badly in his life that he even went to find her after she said
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The story could still be interesting: however, by starting the short story with the end, it builds more tension. The reader automatically see how significant the mysterious man will be from the start, making the reader want to discover what it is about the man that is so important. Part 2 and 3 slowly unravel the answers the readers from Part 1 making the details of Part 1 more visible and clear.
2. Women are seen as fragile, emotional, and detail orientated in most society and cultures. The author was able to make the short story in the perspective of women, but over analyzing situations and by jumping from topic to topic to make the story appear faster and more stressful for the main character. If the story were told in a man’s perspective, it would most likely lack close details and provide the ready with an over view of what happened and what it made him feel.
3. Anna is full of shame and feels as though she sin so badly noting can save her. She wants to kill herself to leave her misery. She loves Gurov: however, regrets falling for him because of all the stress it had created. It is impossible in her eye to be cleaned her from sin and she found relief in cutting herself to see her blood
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I prefer the version by Chekhov because I grew a love-hate relationship with Gurov. I dispraised his view on women which made me want to read more, and his sweet words about Anna gave me pleasure but disguise because he was cheating on his wife. At some point during the short story I would forget that Gurov was married, then remember again, cycling my opinions about him.
“Roselily” by Alice Walker
1. The point of view is directed on Roselily, a black women about to be married. Roselily has 3 children, the 4th gone, and has a hard life filled with financial issues. The point of view affects a reader understanding of Roselily because we see how she feels about what is occurring directly. She questions her for future husband and shares how impatient she was to leave the sewing factory. Roselyn has many thoughts that come rapidly, which is seen in how the author structured her thoughts between the preacher’s sentences.
2. The first words “dearly beloved” shows that the story is of a wedding. Than the paragraph says she is falling into quick sand. By having both these sentences in the paragraph, a reader can quickly see that the married is not something plan or wanted by
However, even though the two versions of the story "The Lady with the Pet Dog," reinforce this notion, they show the destructive force of such a relationship and the response of the human heart. They validate the secular way of thinking and make us question the strength and sincerity of our moral beliefs. Even though Gurov and Anna have different reasons for having the affair and dealt with their grief differently, they both justify their relationship because they have grown to love each other.
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,
...he couple starts right after the beginning of the story and persists until almost the last few paragraphs when he approaches his wife outside the bathroom. The quarrel begins when the topic of black people and marriage gets brought into conversation while they were washing dishes. This text has an ending that is left incomplete and is ambiguous as to what really happens between the husband and the wife in the end. The story chooses to do this because it is essential to the entire irony of the story. By starting with a cohesive bond and ending with the couple being strangers, the story illustrates that even though you could be married to someone for years, you could still not know who they are as an individual.
However, the reader must always keep in mind the time at which this piece was written and how these relationships exemplify the realities of personal relationships during this time era. Her relationship with John is dominated by him and is almost like she is the child. Without anyone to speak to about her true feelings and stresses, she writes, another thing she must hide from John and Jennie. The reader feels a sense of fear from the narrator, “there comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman 78). Yet another sign of how he does not want his wife thinking for herself and doing what she pleases. When learning about the author and her background, her feminist side shows in this piece through examples like these. The true dark sides of marriage, the loneliness, and the female role of always being superior are portrayed perfectly in this short
Women have a different way of viewing the world, because of the culture not the nature. They tend to write diaries, autobiographies, poetry…because the cultural context in which they write asks for that kind of literature .
Anna transcribes her memories in a way that transitions from being able to love freely to being forced to love Alexander Karmyshev out of obligation; this was an arranged marriage by her mother. Anna sees the role of a noblewomen as being completely submissive towards their husbands even under unbearable conditions. The lessons learned from her mother helped shape and control her life. Labzina’s mother instilled the lessons of submission and survival in her mind before departing. Her mother’s motivation for teaching her these things was so that elite people would intercede on her behalf through respect for her. Her mother’s teachings were to:
The story can be analyzed using feminist criticism perspective. Feminist criticism is “" the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women"” (Brizee & Tompkins). When reading a text one can find how women were treated in contemporary times. It can be expressed in many areas listed by Brizee & Tompkins. Moreover, Delahoyde also gave more details on the subject when he said “Feminist criticism concern itself with stereotypical representations of genders. It also may trace the history of relatively unknown or undervalued women writers, potentially earning them their rightful place within the literary canon, and helps create a climate in which women's creativity may be fully realized and appreciate.” Women had been undervalued and taken for granted. Many things they do are not as...
Creasman, Boyd. "Gurov's Flights Of Emotion In Chekov's `The Lady With The.." Studies In Short Fiction 27.2 (1990): 257. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 6 Nov. 2013.
Creasman, Boyd. "Gurov's Flights Of Emotion In Chekov's `The Lady With The.." Studies In Short Fiction 27.2 (1990): 257. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 6 Nov. 2013.
In the literary, Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros we are able to analyze the short story through a feminist perspective, due to the feminist critical critical theory. A literary criticism has at least three primary purposes in developing critical thinking skills, enabling us to understand, analyze, and judgement works of literature, of any type of literature. It resolves any questions or problem within a literary work that we do not understand from merely reading the literature. Look into multiple alternative outcomes to the literature and decide which the better outcome in the end is. Form our own judgements, our thoughts about what we feel from the literature. By analyzing in depth Sandra Cisneros as an author, we can see her as
Chekhov's point of view was pro-affair, while Oates's view was anti-affair and can be seen in their characters. Gurov nature was inappropriate and deceiving. When he saw Anna for the first time, he thought to himself, "if she is here alone without her husband or friends, it wouldn't be a bad thing to make her acquaintance" (Chekhov, 170). He was a married man, yet he was on a vacation by himself like a single man. His intentions to meet Anna displayed acts of unfaithfulness. "He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago- had been unfaithful to [his wife] often and, probably for that reason, almost always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked of in his presence used to call them 'the inf...
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
Anna plays the role of the classic submissive female married to David's classic chauvinist male. "Wanting to remain attractive to her husband, Anna attempts to conform to the eroticized and commodified images of women promulgated in the mass culture" (Bouson 44). Although the novel is set during the 1970"s, the decade of one of the great feminist movements in our history, Anna remains a woman who maintains herself for her husbands benefit. In a critical scene in the novel, the narrator sees Anna applying makeup. When she (the narrator) tells her that it is unnecessary where they are Anna says "He doesn't like to see me without it," and then quickly adds, "He doesn't know I wear it" (41).
Part of the feminine color in this story is the way it focuses on female...
Women in this story are portrayed as a minority gender. For example Jane isn’t allowed think for her self, move without her husbands permission, or even have a say in her treatment. Her husband John is a physician of high standing in society that is looked highly upon. For this reason, John feels that he has the right to imprison his wife and brainwash her into thinking that she really is...