Stereotypical Characters in Novels, Short Stories, Etc.: A Meta-Fiction by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110
Author(s):  
A. Chekhov
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Meta Fiction

scholarly journals MOTIF/ARCHETYPE THE OLD MAN IN THREE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV, ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND NAM CAO

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Chuong Ngoc Dao
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
The Impact

Basing on poetics, structure of works and motif / archetype of the Wise Old Man, the paper examines and compares the image of the Old Man in three short stories: Tocka by Anton Chekhov (Russian), A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway (American) and Lao Hac by Nam Cao (Vietnamese). In each short story, the old man leads a lonely life. Their loneliness can’t sometimes be shared or isn’t shared such as the case of Iona Potapov, in Tocka of Anton Chekhov, who just lost his son last week; of the Old Man, in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place of Ernest Hemingway who suffered from loneliness in his old age; and of Lao Hac, in Nam Cao’s work of the same title, who, with hopelessness, has gone away to work in plantation for three years because his poor son couldn’t afford to get married. If the impact of rural elements in the process of social development from agriculture to industry is taken into consideration, we can put these three short stories in the following sequence: Lao Hac (1943) of Nam Cao, Tocka (1871) of Anton Chekhov, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) of Ernest Hemingway. It seems that the more the society is urbanized, the more loneliness can’t be wiped out. Now, the deeply rooted characters of the archetype of the Wise Old Man (according to Jung) are expressed in only three points: how to best bahave in loneliness.

scholarly journals From Darkness into Light: A Comparative Study of Illusion and Reality in Anton Chekhov’s “The Kiss” and Thomas Wolfe’s “The Far and the Near”

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Leila Hajjari ◽  
Hossein Aliakbari Harehdasht ◽  
Yasaman Mirzaie
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Thomas Wolfe ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The One

This paper is an attempt for a comparative study of two famous short stories, one by Anton Chekhov called “The Kiss” and the other by Thomas Wolfe by the name of “The Far and the Near”. The focus of the study is on the analysis of the theme of illusion versus reality, and the approach to the stories has basically been analogical in essence which compares and contrasts this theme in the two stories, and the relevant aspects of the stories such as characterization, symbols, or motifs, to name but few, have been deployed as technical/literary tools for the better apprehension of the working appearance and reality on the protagonists. The results of the study show that the characters’ inability in recognizing the true meaning of what appears to them as reality on the one hand, and their idealization of the apparent reality caused by their subconscious desire for self-deception on the other, have dismantled the protagonists’ power of perception; the ensuing disillusionment caused by the final affirmation of reality which is achieved by recognition of reality/truth leads to their catastrophic end, that is, a deeper alienation and sharper feeling of alienation and desperation. The study finds significance in the fact that no similar comparative study of the two short stories have been yet done. The authors hope that this study will contribute hugely to the criticism of the two short stories and start a resurgence of interest in the study of them comparatively utilizing different approaches.

scholarly journals Behind the Counter: «Other Literature» by Anton Chekhov in the Context of Social History

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Tian Hongmin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society

Chekhov’s work is considered in the article in the context of Russia’s social history of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, and primarily in the context of those aspects of the history of the social ranks that were associated with the new trends refl ected in Chekhov’s writing: education, family income, a person’s position in the post-reform Russian secular society. «Shop life», that occupied an important place both in the writer’s work and in his biography, is studied on the basis of Chekhov’s letters and short stories.

scholarly journals Image and linguistic personality of the teacher (based on short stories by Anton Chekhov)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
A. I. Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
The Subject

The main purpose of this article is to introduce readers to the linguistic embodiment of the teacher’s image in the short stories by A.P. Chekhov. In recent decades the linguistic personality of the characters of artistic works has often become the subject of thorough linguistic and literary analysis. A.P. Chekhov, being the master of humorous stories, aims at introducing certain features typical only for the images of characters representing various professions but at the same time corresponding to the genre of the work itself. Attention to details, many artistic features are the hallmark of this writer’s work. A.P. Chekhov works through each image at all levels: structural, semantic and linguistic (thesaurus). That is why Chekhov’s works arouse research interest among both literary critics and linguists. The linguistic personality of the teacher in Chekhov’s stories is formed in accordance with the tasks that the writer sets at the time of the creation of the work (for example, a humorous short story, memoirs, etc.). Analysis of the character’s speech characteristics, the verbal portrait of the character allows us to identify the distinctive features of Chekhov’s language and form an idea of the writer as a thinker and researcher of the native language. Working on the semantic level of the linguistic personality allows to reflect on the moral and ethical potential of the characters of Anton Chekhov’s stories.

scholarly journals Woman at the Ball. “Anna in the Neck” by Anton Chekhov and “The Psychology of a Husband from Syros” by Emmanuel Roidis: An Attempt of Comparison

Literatūra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Fatima Eloeva
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Story Telling

The paper presents the first attempt to compare two short stories – Anna in the Neck by Anton Chekhov and a well-known short story by the Greek author Emmanuel Roidis Psychology of a Husband from Syros. Both texts were published at the same time (in 1895) and are considered to be masterpieces. The initial motivation for such textual analysis became almost a complete coincidence between the plots of the two stories. A series of telling coincidences and contradictions observed between the analyzed stories require some kind of explanation which will allow us to view both texts from the different angle. The paper aims to determine the correlation between the writers’ biographies and the personality traits with the characteristics of the protagonists and the style of story telling.

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