Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog": analysis, theme, main characters. BUT
The story of the writer A. P. Chekhov "The Lady with the Dog" was written in 1898. It is one of the brightest works of the writer, showing the relationship between two people who are filled with the fear of public condemnation. Such books contributed well to the emancipation of society: they helped humanity to realize how destructive hypocrisy fetters it.
Chekhov planned the first edition of the story in August in the city of Kislovodsk with a different name. Starting in 1897, he collected notes for the story, and already in 1899 the work was published in the Russian Thought magazine. It is also known that the writer wrote the book “Lady with a Dog” after a long silence, a creative lull, so the public accepted the return of the idol very favorably.
The story was created in Yalta in 1898. After a trip to this city and meeting with his love, the writer decided to write a story about two adults, between whom there is an attachment to each other, but it is not destined to develop for a number of psychological reasons.
Genre and direction
Genre - short story, but some critics argue that "The Lady with the Dog" is a story. Nevertheless, the main characteristics of this work indicate that it is made in the genre of a story. The plot is based on one line, there are few heroes, but dynamic actors and even less. In addition, the volume for the story is small.
The direction is realism. The book describes everyday situations without shades of fiction. Participate in action ordinary people with typical characters, their life is just as naturalistic, and the problems they face are common hard-to-solve questions from our lives.
essence
Heroes from different cities and yet they meet one day. He is married, but not faithful to his wife, she is married, but does not feel the fullness of happiness in marriage. After several days of communication, the lady's worldview changes, there is a desire to change her life and become happier, but she has her BUT. But the hero understands that this meeting is another holiday romance that bores him to death, but he is forced to pretend and play the role of a passionate lover due to the fact that this is accepted. With the help of this work, one can understand the psychology of mature people: what are people guided by in such situations? Dmitry is afraid of destroying his family, but at the same time he is unfaithful to his wife and is looking for love adventures on the side. And these same adventures bore him, weigh him down. The hero is worried about his reputation in society, because it is unlikely that his act will be well received. A woman, on the other hand, is afraid to leave her husband into the unknown, where shame and the stigma of an “unfaithful wife” await her. However, she decides to take a desperate step - treason, in which she is also disappointed, because her ideal turned out to be an ordinary reveler in search of cheap pleasure.
The essence of the work is a description of the relationship between two lovers, their thoughts and calculations, feelings and behavior in public. In the fetters of family life, they are fettered by the fear of public condemnation, and they also do not find joy in a moment of self-deception. In the end, disappointment wins over their passion: Dmitry and Anna are separated forever.
Main characters and their characteristics
- Dmitry Gurov, no longer young, from Moscow. He is a philologist working in a bank, vacationing in Yalta. In Moscow, he left his wife, to whom he is unfaithful, and three children. There is something attractive in his type: intelligence, humor, courtesy, out-of-the-box thinking. But Gurov does not take ladies for full-fledged people. Fleeting love meetings with them are a man's addiction. Despite good luck in amorous affairs, the author shows him as an unfortunate person: he does not work according to his calling, lives with an unloved woman, yearns in the arms of casual acquaintances. The attitude shows that he makes his family unhappy, leaving them alone in another city. Cheating is a normal situation for a hero. There is a feeling that he has never experienced true mutual love.
- Anna Dideritz from St. Petersburg, but lives with her husband in the city of St.. She is not interested in the life of her husband, she does not feel happiness in her life, not knowing love and spiritual harmony. At the same time, Anna stands up for morality and does not recognize treason, considering it a sin. Relations with Gurov are a burden to her, but there are still feelings for him, so the meetings continue. She takes them seriously, apparently, the woman fell in love with her seducer, so separation is very difficult for her. She can be called a conscientious, honest, sensitive and deeply unhappy heroine. Neither marriage nor passion brought her the desired soul kinship with another person.
- true and false love;
- fidelity and betrayal;
- family relationships;
- truth and lie;
- sincerity and hypocrisy;
- devotion to oneself and one's ideals;
- faith and unbelief.
- The Problem of Happiness. Both people were unhappy and put up with it. In Yalta, the main characters felt freedom, believed in the possibility happy life but in vain: prosperity cannot be built on deceit and hypocrisy. The vulgarity of their relationship dooms feelings to extinction.
- The problem of hypocrisy. Both heroes daily deceive spouses, others and themselves too. As a result, they were forced to lie to each other, obeying the conditions of the game started. Lies take people captive and force them to build up their whole life with illusory castles in the air.
- The problem of bigotry. Anna and Dmitry could have ended their boring marriages if society had not been so hostile to the open manifestation of the will of the individual. It is calm about hypocrisy, but true love is outlawed.
- The problem of sexism and immorality. Gurov treats ladies with contempt, so he does not see a problem in his behavior. He brazenly harms his wife, leads other women astray, seducing them into a vulgar and unnecessary relationship. It is because of disrespect for the weaker sex that he allows himself immoral acts.
Topic
The theme of the story revolves around love relationships. The author raises the theme of loyalty and betrayal, describing the adventures of Gurov on the side. It is so typical that you can imagine how many such adventurers are on the prowl in search of easy prey. The hero is a hunter who sees game in women. He denies them equality with himself, but in fact, behind a dismissive attitude towards them, he hides revenge on fate and people. That is why he is cheating on his wife. He takes revenge on her for the need to support her and the children, neglecting what she loves. Based on this, we can conclude that the author also touches on the topic of vocation, its role on our life path.
Another thing is Anna's betrayal. In her act, the author highlighted the theme of love, desirable and criminal passion. The woman was seriously carried away by Gurov, took their romance seriously. For her, this affair is a fatal step, a betrayal of herself and her principles. But she fell in love and was ready to sacrifice everything, and for her promiscuity she paid with disappointment. Using her example, Chekhov shows that a person must, above all, remain true to himself, otherwise he risks being deceived, and very cruelly.
Interestingly, the author also thought about faith in God. His heroine appeals with religious concepts, explaining her attitude towards infidelity. She believes in the sanctity of marriage, but Gurov no longer believes in anything, so even the achieved goal in the form of intimacy with Anna does not bring him pleasure.
Thus, A.P. Chekhov raised very important topics in his work:
Problem
Meaning
Chekhov helps to reveal the cause of the misfortune of many people - this is the inability and fear to make their dreams come true. If the hero had initially gone to work according to his vocation, if he had chosen a more suitable spouse, even if he had remained single, without deceiving anyone and not encouraging in vain, he would have lived honestly, openly, happily. And so he only daydreams, achieving what he himself does not need and even disgusts. The heroine is also unable to explain herself to her husband and start life from scratch. It is easier for them to entangle themselves from head to toe with lies and enjoy short and illusory moments, reminiscent of happiness from a distance. This is the reason for their disappointment. This is the main idea of the story.
The conclusion is simple: you need to live honestly, first of all, be honest with yourself. You need to be able to admit to yourself that the easy way is not always the right way, and it can lead to a dead end. Better bitter truth than sweet but senseless self-deception. it the main idea- a simple but practical truth that people need.
Criticism
The writer Maxim Gorky turned to Chekhov with the question: “What are you doing?”.
You seem to be killing realism. You, like no one else, know how to write about such things, so simply, with such ease. Your stories overshadow everything else. The other seems crude, "artificial." Your little works are inspired by life. The reader will always catch this part of life. (A. M. Gorky, January 1900)
Albov Veniamin Pavlovich (b. 1871), teacher (author of articles), commented on Chekhov's work:
Such a “hackneyed theme of love” in your work sounds in a new original way, including deceit, lies, betrayal. Its meaning is clear. (V. Albov, 1903)
R. I. Sementkovsky believed that it was impossible to call the main character a good person with his life principles. He makes the most unhappy important people his life - children. Entertainment, short-term connections, make his pathetic nature higher in his eyes. Chekhov portrayed his existence as petty, vulgar and senseless fuss.
Interesting? Save it on your wall!Plot-plot organization of A.P. Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog"
One of many is a “face” that does not stand out from the crowd, attracting attention to itself only by novelty - this is how Anna Sergeevna appears to us at the beginning of A.P. Chekhov’s work “The Lady with the Dog”. Anton Pavlovich, however, does not treat her disparagingly, he already focuses on this character in the title, but indirectly, without naming her name or surname (as opposed to I.S. Turgenev’s “Rudin” or “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare) - only a lady with a dog.
Speaking about the plot, A.P. Chekhov takes as a basis the history of an ordinary holiday romance - a story, apparently, truly eternal. Events develop according to the usual pattern: on vacation, two unhappy married people find each other with one, it would seem, purpose: to forget everyday chores for a few minutes and feel a little happier, albeit not for long. After several weeks of “carefree happiness”, a wife (or husband, it all depends on the author’s desire for “originality”) comes to one of the two participants in a hastily formed union, a grandiose scandal occurs, and then everyone goes home, and only occasionally during the first months of separation, the heroes of the "tragicomedy" are visited by memories of the rest, causing either dreary sighs or dull irritation.
The plot is more than predictable, that is, predictable for the chosen plot. Chekhov introduces us to the main character of his story - Gurov, who already has so-called selfish plans associated with the "new face". As if by the way, the author also reveals a little the image of the “lady with the dog” that has already intrigued the reader (I want to emphasize that we see her through Gurov’s eyes, and Chekhov allows himself a more complete description of the woman in his presence). Immediately, Anton Pavlovich for the first time, unobtrusively, separates the heroine from the masses: “She walked alone, all in the same beret, with a white spitz; no one knew who she was, and they called her just like that: a lady with a dog.
Further, in the exposition, Chekhov introduces the main character to the reader in more detail: Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov. This is a “decent” “Muscovite”, a man accustomed to women’s society, married, but not having any warm feelings for his wife and often cheating on her (“he was married,” the author says, from which it follows that Gurov’s marriage did not take place according to his will, and there has never been much love between the spouses). Further, Gurov opens up even more: in the scene of meeting the “lady with the dog” he likes, it becomes quite obvious that he is not stupid, resourceful, charming, observant and very knowledgeable in dealing with girls. The episode of the acquaintance itself and the first day the characters spend together are quite common for the plot of a holiday romance. Also here, some facts about the life of Anna Sergeevna become clear, and finally Chekhov reveals to us the name of the mysterious lady. It is important to note that the reader recognizes the name of the woman at the same time as Gurov - this proves that he is the main character of the story - in fact, the center of the story. But here Anton Pavlovich unexpectedly introduces a free motive that contradicts the plot as a whole: “There is something pathetic in it, after all,” this thought, which so noticeably cuts the ear of a reader accustomed to tradition, arises in Gurov on a par with completely trivial images and epithets, while he thinks of Anna Sergeevna. Chekhov even puts his hero's thought into a separate paragraph, thereby graphically showing the reader its isolation.
Closer relationships, for the sake of which, in fact, Gurov started everything, begin to develop with Dmitry Dmitrievich and Anna Sergeevna on the pier, when they meet the steamer together: the woman is noticeably worried and confused (“She talked a lot, and her questions were jerky, and she herself immediately forgot what she asked; then she lost her lorgnette in the crowd."), but main character Chekhov does not know confusion and behaves absolutely calm and confident.
"What kind of meetings do not happen in life!". And the truth is, what kind of meetings do not happen! Now Chekhov is already openly talking about the uniqueness of Anna Sergeevna, about her dissimilarity to others (Gurov compares her with his past "experience", but he has not yet met such ones). The author draws the reader's attention to the game he played, he seems to show off his dexterity: “Anna Sergeevna, this "lady with a dog", reacted somehow to what happened especially, very seriously, exactly to his fall - it seemed so, and it was strange and inopportune. And Gurov? Gurov is confused ("I don't understand," he said quietly.). Just think about it! Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov himself is at a loss, being so experienced and knowledgeable in dealing with women, he simply does not know what to say, do ... And it is truly shameful, shameful for someone like him, he takes up a watermelon lying on the table in Anna Sergeevna's room, so that "at least half an hour passes in silence." Also, there is another contradiction to the plot here: contrary to the usual development of events, where the holiday romance (and especially its culmination) should cause fleeting joy, short-term happiness, both characters do not experience any of this - Gurov feels very uncomfortable, and Anna Sergeevna and completely in despair (“Anna Sergeevna ... reacted to what happened somehow especially, very seriously ...”, “long hair hung sadly”, “in a sad pose”). Gurov’s internal monologue, which is pronounced during the joint stay of lovers in Oreanda, also serves as a deviation from the plot: Chekhov shows the reader that his hero is a deep person, with a rich inner world, a person capable of talking about the eternal (which is opposed to the usual idea of the hero of the story holiday romance: ignorant and extremely earthly).
Subsequently, Anton Pavlovich again briefly returns to the usual plot, which is emphasized by the description of the remaining days spent by Anna Sergeyevna and Gurov in Yalta together ("Then every noon they met on the embankment, had breakfast together, dined, walked, admired the sea.", "... all alone and the same questions…” - the author points to the routine of their days, to the monotonous course of their life). However, Chekhov immediately dismisses the conflict, which is the culmination of any holiday romance story: “We were waiting for my husband to arrive. But a letter came from him ... ", thus, already here the author quite directly indicates his preference for the plot over the plot, he leaves the story unfinished, not reaching its climax - the highest point of the conflict, not satisfying the expectations of the reader, who has already managed to predict the end for himself, and causing him even slight indignation. In the scene of Gurov’s farewell to Anna Sergeevna, the author also says goodbye to the plot: “And he thought that there was another adventure or adventure in his life, and it, too, had already ended, and now a memory remains ...”. Dmitry Dmitrievich does not just say goodbye to his next "adventure", here he says goodbye to his entire past life, habits and ideas, he says goodbye to himself, because then the reader will see a completely changed, new person.
The city of S. Chekhov supplies a plentiful amount of greyness: a floor covered with “gray soldier’s cloth”, an inkwell “grey from dust”, a gray blanket, a “gray, long, with nails” fence (looking at it, one gets the impression that this city, this life is a prison for Anna Sergeevna at all) - all this is like a description of the inner world of the heroine: the reader is already ready to see a dull, unhappy woman, in whose life absolutely all colors are absent, except for black and white. Gurov himself finds himself in all this, and both of them are unhappy, and a gray fence with nails is in the life of each of them. Here Chekhov has already completely abandoned the plot, very categorically, following a completely opposite path (in stories about holiday romances, the characters cannot be so desperately unhappy); The reader is further convinced of this: “Both the husband believed and did not believe,” - the complete absence of a conflict appropriate to this plot, Chekhov hints that it is not foreseen.
From now on, Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov has two lives: “one explicit, which was seen and known to everyone who needed it, full of conditional truth and conditional deceit, completely similar to the life of his acquaintances and friends, and the other, which proceeded secretly” (this is most clearly seen in the scene where he goes to meet Anna Sergeevna, seeing his daughter off to the gymnasium). Now they are “very close, dear people”, now Gurov orders tea (this scene is set by the author in contrast to the scene with a watermelon at the very beginning of the work), not in order to put himself at least somewhere, but he understands that Anna Sergeevna needs time to calm down. Now her thoughts are no longer a mystery to Gurov, he knows what Anna Sergeevna is thinking about, knows about her experiences, these thoughts seem to sound in his head. Chekhov shows the reader a man in his new state, a man who truly loves.
Speaking of the plot, through the double life of Gurov, Anton Pavlovich conveys the idea of the duality of his story - here he also has, as it were, two lives, more precisely, realities: the plot life and the plot life. Taking as a basis a story familiar to many and trivial in its content, Chekhov opposed it with a plot, as if playing. And the reader, having read the story to the end, will smile and remain calm for the fate of Anna Sergeevna and Dmitry Dmitritch, because the author fully assured everyone: their path "is just beginning" and "it will not end soon, no one knows when." Skorokhodova Lyudmila, 2nd year student of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Herzen, St. Petersburg
The great Russian writer is well versed in the psychology of people, the state of their soul and inner world. He created many talented works. Chekhov's writings always reflect the inner feelings and experiences of a person, relationships with others. Many of them touch upon the influence of society on a person. One of these works is considered "Lady with a dog", brief analysis whose works are offered for review.
Brief analysis
Year of writing - 1898
History of creation- There is an opinion that the story was based on real events, after the writer's trip to Yalta, on memories of his last love.
Composition — Compositional construction The story is in chronological order. Gurov meets Anna Sergeevna, their romance begins, parting, the climax is the realization that life has passed by.
Genre- A story that respects all the characteristics of this genre.
Direction- Realism, actions correspond to real events, real heroes.
History of creation
In the life of the writer there was a woman with whom he was once in love, Olga Knipper.
The writer rested in Yalta, observing the life of vacationers, their relationship with each other. I saw how fleeting holiday romances broke out between some of them. Also, there was his meeting with Olga Knipper. Anton Pavlovich had an idea about writing a story. For a long time he collected various materials, notes. At that time, the writer was going through a period of creative calm. After a trip to Yalta, the writer began the story of creating a story about people who met at a resort, between whom a relationship is established.
After some literary silence, Anton Pavlovich created a story that was favorably received by the public.
Topic
In The Lady with the Dog, analysis of the work is impossible without defining main theme. The theme of the story is love, which visited two completely different people. He and she are not free, Gurov has a wife, children, Anna Sergeevna is married. The only thing they have in common is that they are alone. Despite their family ties, they do not experience happiness, and from this hopeless loneliness, Gurov and Anna rush into each other's arms, taking what they wish for reality.
The writer shows the acute problems of moral relations. Heroes do not experience real feelings, they are hypocritical not only in front of each other, but also in front of themselves. Gurov, who did not love either his wife or Anna, plays the role of a passionate lover simply because it is supposed to be so. Anna Sergeevna is just as hypocritical and deceitful, considering herself a deeply religious person, however, she descends to the fall, falsely justifying her immoral deeds by the fact that she truly fell in love with Gurov.
Chekhov's story about love relationships clearly proves the moral decay and moral licentiousness of society. The problem of hypocrisy considered by the writer concerns not only society, but also heroes, they behave in the same way as the whole society, hypocritically deceiving themselves, and not just the people around them.
The main idea of the work is in the person himself, in his morality. Deceiving their loved ones, deceiving themselves, the heroes only become more and more vulgarized, falling into the abyss of moral licentiousness.
Both Gurov and Anna Sergeevna were unhappy in their family life. Having met each other, they knew true love. Lovers have learned what real happiness means when a loved one is next to you. But it is impossible for these people to go against society, they cannot unite, as they will be condemned by society. Having known true love they cannot find a way out of the situation.
Gurov, an adventurer, a favorite of women, has found the only one that is really dear to him. He is having a hard time with the impasse, there is no way out to resolve it. Together with Anna Sergeevna, a woman who fell in love for the first time, they became even more unhappy than they were before they met.
Composition
Chekhov's story consists of four parts in which the action develops.
In the first part, Gurov, this man, fed up with female attention, came to Yalta to rest. He left a wife with children at home, for whom he never felt love. Gurov is looking for entertainment, and meets Anna Sergeevna. They start dating.
In the second part, Anna Sergeevna falls into sin, she is very worried. Gurov, as usual, refers to her as one of the many passing acquaintances he happened to meet. Anna Sergeevna leaves for her husband, and Gurov goes to his place in Moscow.
In the third part, Gurov, who often remembered Anna Sergeevna, decides to go to the city where a lady with a dog lives. Gurov understands how close this woman has become to him, he truly fell in love. Gurov is looking for a meeting with Anna, and she promises to come to him in Moscow.
In the fourth part of the story, Anna Sergeevna comes to Moscow several times, where they meet with Gurov. In one of these meetings, there is a climax. Suddenly seeing himself in the mirror, Gurov suddenly realizes how old he is. He realizes that when true love came to him, he is already too old to try to change anything. The action comes to a head. Gurov understands that he has reached a dead end, from which there is no way out, there is no meaning to life.
This is the meaning of the story - fear and fear to commit a real act when it was necessary, led to such an end, to disappointment and devastation.
Genre
The characteristics of Chekhov's work "Ladies with a Dog" define it as a short story genre, although some of the critics have come to the conclusion that the work can be called a story. The story describes real, ordinary situations, which gives the story a realistic direction.
Lesson 89
Lesson Objectives:
1. Show the meaning of the story "The Bride" and "The Lady with the Dog" in Chekhov's work; give an idea of artistic features works: to expand the concept of moral categories.
2. Learning to analyze the work.
3. Education aesthetic taste, caring attitude to the most beautiful and amazing feeling of love.
During the classes.
1.
Preparing students for the perception of the story:
teacher's word
.
Everyone knows the statement of F.M. Dostoevsky
that Pushkin took a certain secret with him to the grave, and now we are unraveling this secret without him. These same words - about the mystery, about the mystery of creativity - I'm sure can be attributed to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
His originality puzzled even his contemporaries, and until now he remains one of the most "unsolved" writers. Indeed, behind the seeming simplicity of Chekhov's works lies something that does not lend itself to a clear critical formulation. "Enemy of vulgarity?" "The Twilight Singer?" "Poet of the End?" He was close and understandable to L. Tolstoy, and M. Gorky, and D. Merezhkovsky ... For A. Bely, Chekhov was a writer who discovered a new art - “realism of symbolism or symbolism of realism”.
Student's report about A.P. Chekhov's story "The Bride".
The story "The Bride" - Chekhov's last completed story - was waiting in literary criticism special destiny. Many saw in him "a turning point in the writer's work towards a more vigorous, optimistic perception of reality." In the opinion of Soviet criticism, the meaning of the story "The Bride" is absolutely transparent. Nadya Shumina, a future revolutionary, awakens to a new, conscious life under the influence of the revolutionary-democrat Sasha and accomplishes a feat - she leaves her "native corner" that has become disgusting to her just on the eve of the wedding. Parallels were often drawn: Nadia - Sasha and Anya - Petya from The Cherry Orchard. “The writer could not agree on censorship conditions that Nadia and Anya were going into a revolutionary struggle,” wrote V. Yermilov. For him, it is clear that in Nadia Shumilova Chekhov showed "a wonderful image of a Russian girl who has embarked on an honest path of revolutionary struggle in order to turn life around, to turn the Motherland into a flowering garden."
A. Turkov no longer claims that Nadya is going into the revolution, however, he notes that the story "The Bride" resembles numerous works of democratic writers of the 60-70s about the breakup of a young man and a girl with their environment for the sake of life inspired by high ideals .. (Turkov A. Chekhov and his time, - M., 1987. - S. 517). Indeed, Anton Pavlovich himself in a letter to O.L. Knipper remarked: "Now I am writing a story in the old manner, in the manner of the seventies."
2. Conversation
with students:
what makes the heroine of the story Nadia Shumina run away from her home almost on the eve of the wedding ?
(Example answer:
From a small exposition at the beginning of the story, we learned that Nadia Shumina is 23 years old, that from the age of 16 she "passionately dreamed of marriage." But now, when the day of her wedding with Andrey Andreevich, the “clever, kind” man whom she liked, had already been appointed, everything suddenly changed all at once: “there was no joy, she slept badly at night, the fun was gone.” As if continuing famous topic, Chekhov shows that Nadya suddenly felt herself closed in a case in which she was stuffy and dreary. A young girl rushes into space: “I wanted to think that not here, but somewhere under the sky, above the trees, far outside the city, in the fields and forests, now its own spring life has unfolded, mysterious, beautiful, rich and holy, inaccessible to the understanding of the weak, sinful person.)
How a writer creates the impression of a “case” with details »?
(Sounds, smells of roasted turkey, oil paint; the sound of knives in the kitchen, Sasha's cough).
Students write conclusions in notebooks.
What family friend Alexander Timofeevich is trying to explain to Nadia ? (students read examples from the text).
3 . Student report about Andrei Andreevich, Nadya's fiancé . (An exemplary answer.
At first glance, a typical Chekhov intellectual: graduated from the Faculty of Philology (like Gurov from the story "The Lady with the Dog"), "looks like an artist" (like Alekhine from the "little trilogy"), plays the violin (like Andrey Prozorov from "Three Sisters" ). But the reader sees Andrey Andreevich's uselessness. “I don’t do anything and I can’t do anything,” he admits. Nadya's fiancé belongs to the type of people about whom Lopakhin says: "And how many, brother, there are people in Russia who exist for no one knows why." Andrei Andreevich is incapable of working, does not want to serve (“Why is it that I am so disgusted even by the thought that someday I will put a cockade on my forehead and go to serve?”), He is sometimes even too lazy to talk: “He loved the violin, perhaps because during the game it was possible to remain silent.
However speech characteristic Andrei Andreevich is very expressive. “Oh, how happy I am! I'm mad with delight!" - he says to Nadia, and it seems to her that she read something like that in a novel - "old, tattered, long abandoned."
“O Mother Rus',” Andrey Andreevich says with pathos, “how many more idle and useless people you carry on yourself! How many of you are like me, long-suffering! For a taciturn hero, such a tirade is stronger than a “respected closet”!)
Conversation with students
:
How Nadya's grandmother and mother took her sudden departure
?
(Grandma lay motionless for three days. Nina Ivanovna had aged a lot in a year.)
Written responses
:
What does Nadia put into the words: “You are very unhappy, mother”?
How does Nadia's attitude towards people around her change?
Individual task
. Is Nadia capable of true love?
- Selective reading of written responses .
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Closing conversation with students
:
What exactly pushes Nadya to run away from home (“the desire to turn life around” or specific egoism)?
What human vices does A.P. Chekhov in his story "The Bride"? (In Chekhov, his heroes bring suffering to their loved ones unconsciously: either due to their spiritual limitations, or due to the universal properties of the world in which they live. Similarly, Nadya, not wanting it at all, dooms her people to grief, longing and loneliness , not interested in what is going on in their souls, not feeling any moral responsibility to them.Now, at the end of the story, it no longer seems to her that she "jays someone's life". She is young, healthy, free and has means, in order to "directly and boldly look into the eyes of one's fate, to recognize oneself as right.")
5. Teacher's word
. In parting, the writer left us a riddle, which we are also trying to solve. In the final lines of the story we read: “She went upstairs to pack, and the next day she said goodbye to her people and, alive, cheerful, left the city - as she thought, forever.” What does this "as expected" mean? This decision made by Nadia not to return to native city or the author's assessment of what is happening? True to his principles, Chekhov gives the reader the opportunity to think and guess for himself how the fate of his heroine will turn out.
6. Conversation on the text of the story "The Lady with the Dog"
Where do the events in the story take place?
What do we know about the main characters before they met?
Both characters are family people. What is missing in their family relationships?
What are their family relationships based on?
For what purpose, besides rest, did the heroes come to Yalta?
2) Working with text:
What "bitter experience" did Gurov have?
What impression did Gurov make on women?
How did he react to them?
Reading an excerpt. Ch.1 "And then one day, in the evening" to "She laughed"
For what purpose did Gurov decide to meet the "lady in the beret"?
What impression did Anna Sergeevna make on Gurov?
(“There is something pathetic about her after all”)
Read how Anna Sergeevna differed from Gurov's previous women!
Why is the heroine unwilling and unable to justify her behavior?
(The idea is that a holiday romance should cause joy, but both heroes do not experience anything like that.
Gurov - confused (and he is experienced in dealing with women!)
Anna Sergeyevna -in desperation "I love an honest, clean life.")
How did Gurov react to Anna Sergeevna's revelation?
(eating watermelon! - invulnerable indifference to the suffering of another - symbolizes an indifferent lover, accustomed to easy victories)
Tell us about the relationship between the characters before they went home.
(pay attention to the rich inner world of Gurov, in which his ability to
Read the episode that tells about the state of the hero after returning home (ch. 3 - at the beginning).
Try to answer the questions Gurov puts to himself.
(what happened? Already talking to himself about his love, wants to open up to someone)
Dialogue with an official about "sturgeon with a smell" -
HERO'S INTERNAL CONFLICT!
His whole gut rejects the existing way of his life - he wants more. The hero is reborn. He realized that he was leading a double life: hiding not only his "romance", but also "a real human life."
Read the episode from the words "He came to C ..." to "He thought ...".
Tell us about the meeting of heroes in the theater.
Describe Gurov's behavior in the hotel when Anna Sergeevna is crying.
(I ordered tea! - a symbol of home, everyday life, peace)
Teacher's word.
Chekhov is a subtle psychologist, a master of briefly and concisely speaking about many things, about important things. He used such techniques as subtext, artistic detail, symbol.
Artistic detail - an expressive detail in the work, which has a significantly meaningful and ideological and emotional load.
Symbol - sign, allusion.
In the story "The Lady with the Dog" one can trace the emergence of a genuine, inner closeness of two personalities, which the author emphasized with artistic details symbolizing important, essential, characteristic. Hoping for a thoughtful reader.Remember the episodes: watermelon in Yalta and tea in Moscow! From indifference to an atmosphere of domestic intimacy, when Gurov already loves, understands, supports.
Prove with quotes from the text that the characters truly love each other.
6. Generalization of the material:
Consider why Chekhov called the story "The Lady with the Dog."
(the main event of the story is the change that occurs under the influence of love. The lady with the dog is a symbol of the spiritual change that occurred with Gurov. Internal rebirth, the rebirth of a person under the influence of love for a woman)
What title would you give this story?
What do you think Chekhov wanted to say by describing this story to us?
Teacher's word.
This story has no plot ending. This is called an open ending. What did Chekhov want to emphasize by this?
Thus, we can sum up:
It is important for Chekhov to say not where the characters want to go, but what they are running from.
The fate of the heroes makes us think about why people are unhappy, what needs to be done to bring joy, sincerity, love into life.
For Chekhov, the main thing is that there is a gradual “uncovering” of a person, the acquisition of the true meaning of life, the desire of people to get away from those rules that make them unhappy. According to Chekhov, one can respect people for their ability to love!
7. Homework to choose from:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov always managed to create unusual works that have deep meaning. It all depends on the person that opens the book famous writer. If the reader is interested in studying life, its laws, then he does not dare to pass by Chekhov's work.
The story that raises the problem of love is, undoubtedly, “The Lady with the Dog”, where Anna Semyonovna and Dmitry Dmitrievich are in love, they meet at the resort. It is noteworthy that both characters are married. The lady with the dog has a husband whom she calls a footman. The heroine married him purely for the sake of curiosity, never finding true happiness. It can be seen how during the years that she lived with her husband, there was no joy and fun in her life. Gurov, Dmitry Dmitrievich, is not only married, but also has three children, thus it is understood that he is responsible for those whom he created. The character leads a normal life, does not have strong feelings for the family. But as soon as Anna Semyonovna and Gurov meet, love pierces them like lightning. Happiness comes into their everyday and routine life.
For the main characters, such a feeling as love inspires, turns life around. It turns out that Chekhov shows: love is capable of much. It can change a person for the better if the feelings are truly mutual. When there is someone who shows attentiveness, care, warmth to you, you want to start not just existing, but living! So are the heroes, they found each other, but obligations do not wait. One has a family and children, the other has his own affairs. Roads diverge...
But Dmitry Dmitrievich realizes how difficult it is for him without a lady with a dog, because in her he found what he was looking for initially: support, attentiveness, reciprocity. The hero cannot stand the separation and goes to Anna Semyonovna. Having found her, they agree on how to see each other more often, because the intensity of feelings cannot be extinguished.
But in the end, when the characters united, they realized that they have each other, Anton Pavlovich does not show a clear future for the characters. Dmitry Dmitrievich and Anna Sergeevna believe that “a new, wonderful Life”, however, until this moment it is still very far away ... And it is not known what awaits the characters further ...
Chekhov shows us how important it is to love here and now, not to shelve feelings. If you love the way last time without thinking about what will happen tomorrow, in a month, a year. The main thing to understand is that one cannot be an indifferent being. Having found love, hold on to it, because later, when there is nothing left and the end comes, you will regret that you did not try fresh feelings, did not accept warmth in your heart. Such a tragedy should never be allowed!
Analysis of the work Lady with a dog 2
Which of the writers did not touch on the topic of love. You can write about love endlessly, this is an eternal problem that arises between a woman and a man.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in his story "The Lady with the Dog" wrote about love, which is doomed to suffering, and here's why. Chekhov tells about a fleeting holiday romance that turned into love.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the intelligentsia preferred to relax on the waters and on the sea coast. The plot develops in Yalta. A comparatively still young man Gurov came to rest. He had long languished with an unloved woman. She annoyed him by trying to be a feminist, which was fashionable at that time. She also had little regard for the opinion of her husband. Accordingly, there is no need for any tender relationship in this case. He resigned himself to this, but at every opportunity he tried to start a non-committal love relationship.
In the neighborhood rested a lady who walked constantly with a dog. According to her appearance it was clear that she was married, but not for a long time. She is burdened by her position and, left alone, is waiting for something good and interesting that can diversify her life. A man with experience will immediately feel that a woman is not against relationships. Events, as always at the resort, unfolded rapidly. Gurov was not mistaken, a week after they met, he proposed to Anna Sergeevna, that was the name of the lady with the dog, to visit his room, she agreed. The subsequent events of Dmitry Gurov were very surprised, he could not have expected this. This has never happened before in his love life.
Anna Sergeevna did not suit family life She didn't like her husband. She did not resist for a long time and happily responded to Dmitry's advances. As it should be in holiday novels, everything happens quickly. For Gurov, this is a common thing, he is used to cheating on his wife, and for a lady with a dog, this turned out to be a real stress, although she did it consciously. Anna Sergeevna wanted changes, but when they happened, she understands that this is not just treason, but a moral decline. These reflections do not touch the rough soul of the lover at all, he is simply surprised at the thinking of the next passion.
It's time to leave, but Dmitry Gurov could not forget this naive woman, he was drawn to her and he began to look for a meeting with her. The most interesting thing is that it was with this woman that he realized what love is. Both of them understood that the hardest part begins now.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in the work described not just a holiday romance, but where people's relationships can lead. Enough time for that actual problem. The story made an indelible impression on readers, it was discussed in society for a long time.
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