Chechov's USe of Grief
What is the fascination with grief and suffering that caused Anton Chekhov to entwine these two sad emotional states into everything he wrote? "Reading Anton Chekhov's stories, one feels oneself in a melancholy state. Everything is strange, sharp, lonely, motionless, helpless" (Nebraska 1). Further, according to William Gerharde, Chekhov answered this very question with the following: "When you depict sad or unlucky people, and want to touch the reader's heart, one should try to be cold- it gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief" (Gerharde 110). While Chekhov uses pain and suffering in all his stories, he does an especially effective job with two short stories "Misery" and "Vengeance." In both, Chekhov introduces a similar theme, although it is first suggested in "Misery": "The theme of the individual isolation is suggested in many of Chekhov's early stories, but it is first fully developed in the brief sketch 'Misery'," (Winner 137). While reading "Misery," the reader can absorb Chekhov through the twined themes of loneliness and isolationism. This enables characters to become so real that each reader can relate through the characters and the situati
Chekhov ingeniously starts the story by making the reader believe that the protagonist, Turmanov, has everything going for him. Chekhov adapts to writing humorously, like in "Vengeance," as well solemnly, like in "Misery," and does both so magnificently. Chekhov achieves a detailed portrayal of one man's grief his attempts to ease heartache, and his final comfort in sharing his story with his horse. Reading Chekhov, is like reading someone's daily journal. And so, sweetheart, I want you to manage just a little before six, but not later, to place a note for me in the marble vase that stands to the left of the grape-vine arbor. Here in the stable, at last, he does find a being to listen to how upset he is over his son's death: Potapov unloads his burdened heart of sorrows by talking to his mare. However, in trying to deal with the incident all alone, he has no evidence to back himself up and so instead of helping the situation he ends up hurting himself more. This time though, the story carries a humorous undertone and is, therefore, not quite so depressing at its conclusion. Upon his return home, therefore, he tries desperately to think of other things.
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