“The proposal” – By Anton Chekhov

About Author:

Anton Chekhov was born in Southern Russia in 1869. He was a master of the short stories as well as modern Playwrights. Chekhov went to medical school and published many stiries to help pay and support his family. Although getting his medical degree in 1884 he never practice medicine, he chose to purpose his writing career. Dying at the age of 44 with tuberculosis, Chekhov was at the height of his career.

About The Play:

In this play there are tension the two lovebirds have cause them argue and have one of them faint. They are being dramatic to get their point across to each other

Key Ideas of the play:

-       Stubborn people with different opinions

-       Pettiness was shown throughout the story by the characters

The Proposal is about a man asking a father for his daughters hand in marrisge. The man is Lomov and the daughter is Nathalia, the father is Tschubukov. Lomov goes to Tschubuko’s house and is going to ask Nahtalia to marry him but she takes to long. So Lomov leaves but then Tschubukov tell him to come back. At the end Lomov and Nathalia talk but get into an argument about who has the best hunting dog and faints. But when he is back up they continue to argue but kiss and makeup at the end.
 

Literary Analysis: 

The author, in order to progress the story, uses the couple’s arguments. He shows how angry they get at each other, but then something will happen to one of them, and they instantly forget what they were arguing about and show their love for each other. In our opinion, the author is trying to say that love always triumphs.