AN ANALYSIS PAPER ON ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL AND THE...

Lourdes School of Mandaluyong High School Department A.Y. 2013-2014 In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements In English IV AN ANALYSIS PAPER ON ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL AND THE CHERRY ORCHARD Submitted to: Mrs. Joneth D. Vibar Submitted by: Vincent del Castillo IV-St.Francis of Assisi Outline of Analysis 1 Author’s Style 1.1 Anton Chekhov as a Playwright and Author of Short Stories 1.1.1 Russia’s best known Modern Playwright 1.1.1 Master of the Modern Short Story 1.2 Anton Chekhov and his Influences 1.2.1 Nineteenth Century Russia 1.2.2 His Contemporaries 1.2.2.1 Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy†¦show more content†¦As such, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov has long since been established throughout the world as Russia’s best known modern playwright and one of the greatest writers in history. With regards to Anton Chekhov’s writing style, one must first look into the period of the writer’s life, for it presents an acute insight into the principles behind most his works. According to Marks (2009), Chekhov’s lifetime was bounded by two singular events in Russian history, beginning a year before the 1861 Russian Emancipation and ended within months of the Bloody Sunday. It must be duly noted, therefore, that Chekhov was a writer at the turning point of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries and thus he described a world, specifically Russia, in transition for most of his works, as stated by Kloeppel (2011). His writing style was visibly influenced by the period of his lifetime, as it provided a common setting for his plays and short stories; it was stated by Hingley (1987) that Chekhov, as a realist, set most of his works in Russia of his own day with a comprehensive picture of late imperial society. Aside from the historical influence of his time period, Anton Chekhov’s writing style, although many will say otherwise, was also subject to the literary influences during his time. According to Sandifer et al (2011), Chekhov was indebted to such literary giants as