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Plot Themes
*long monologues in which the characters appear to be revealing their thoughts/reflecting upon their lives, but are overall self-defeating (e.g. "if only I had not done this)
* repeated phrases occur when characters are trying to convince themelves of something (speeches never reach climax, fizzle out, character made to look foolish)
* His plays often deals with a lot of disease and plagues
* Many of his characters deal with death and tragedy.
* The uses the symbolic power of his dying protagonists to emphasize life's emotions as well as humankind's reactions to fate
* Chekhov also examines disease as a reflection of social degeneration.
* Chekhov focuses on disease to indicate individual frailty as
*Chekhov concentrated primarily on mood and characters, showing that they could be more important than the plots
* Constantin Stanislavski directed Chekhov’s play ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre.
* Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan also directed several of Chekhov’s plays
* Clifford Odets was one of the playwrights
* Individuals such as: Tennessee Williams adapted Chekhov’s the seagull into The Notebook of Trigorin.
* Lastly, Anton’s nephew, Michael Chekhov contributes highly to modern theatre due to his unique acting methods.
Character Types
* His characters are very honest and real
* Very emotional characters (reflected on his own past experiences e.g. being diagnosed with tuberculosis).
* His characters are comedic yet have a very realistic energy to their characteristics
* The revelations in Chekhov’s fictional characters transport the reader into all too familiar lives
* Example: Misail Poloznev in the “My Life” is a character that believes no one can avoid suffering, which Chekhov put in the character as the emotion he feels.
His often picks names for his characters that satirize their personalities.
* Written through a wide time range .
* His play were written in the 20th century
* Between the time periods of 1880- 1900’s
*Chekhov wrote his greatest works from the 1890s through the last few years of his life
*silently question our purposes without expecting any answers.
* upon everyday events, in order to give them a more exciting structure for theatrical purposes.
* Chekhov plays are more oppressive than realism and gives a sense of endless space.
*4-act structure which gives a harmonic sense of rhythm
"Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a riffle hanging on the wall, in the second or thrid chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be there."
-Anton Chekhov