Chekov Lady and the Lapdog Reid about Chekov: The characters in Chekhov's plays are never fully "known" as a writer, he seems to delight in maintaining a sense of indeterminacy, and unknowability, about them. The bare facts are always laughably inadequate to the complexity of "real" people. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January (New Style), 1860, in Taganrog, a small port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia. As the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, Chekhov was a first-generation intellectual. His modest background and upbringing are crucial to his development as a writer. Chekhov always felt that he missed out on childhood. It was a very hard lifeand it may have contributed to his poor health: he succumbed later on to the"family disease", tuberculosis, which led to his early death at the age of 44.His mother was a quiet, gentle soul who was full of stories of her early life. In later years, Chekhov would say that "w...
Tsehhovi novellid 1. Novelli probleemistik ja tegelaskond. 2. Iseloomusta peategelast, tema eesmärke ja nendeni jõudmist. 3. Novelli kui zanri tunnused ja kuidas need avalduvad teose sündmustikus. Novell ,,Kirsiaed" 1. Tsehhovi novell Kirsiaed on leseks jäänud mõisaomanikust Ranevskajast kellel oli nõrkus raha laristada ning ta ei suutnud enam mõisa võlga ära maksta. Kuigi teades, et rahaga on probleeme pidutsesid nad endist viisi edasi, kuni jõudis kätte aeg mil asjad kokku pakkida ja välja kolida. Tegelasteks on Ranevskaja, tütar Anja, kasutütar Varja ja Ranevskaja vend Gajev. Teisteks tegelasteks on veel kaupmees Lopahhin ning kontorikirjutaja Jepihhodov. 2. Ranevskajast oli kergeusklik ja andis kergesti laenu. Nii langes ta Pariisis olles pettuse ohvriks ja rööviti paljaks. Tulles tagasi kodumaale sai ta teada, et mõisaga on kehvad lood. Kuna tal raha ei olnud tuli mõis oksjonile p...