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This document analyzes the major themes in Anton Chekhov's play "A Marriage Proposal" including stubbornness, lack of communication, greed, pride, marriage, the landowning class, selfishness, and superficial judgments based on class. It discusses how the characters Natalya, Lomov, and Chubukov are stubborn, focused on property disputes over worthless land, and allow their pride and greed to override Lomov's marriage proposal. Their approach to marriage is presented as cold and motivated by economic and social factors rather than emotional connection.
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"A Marriage Proposal" is a one-act play by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1888 and has become one of Chekhov's most popular works.
The play revolves around the three characters, Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, and Natalya Stepanovna, who are neighbors in a rural Russian community. Lomov, a nervous and hypochondriacal young man, visits Chubukov to ask for his daughter Natalya's hand in marriage. Chubukov is initially thrilled about the proposal, as he has long hoped for a union between the two families.
However, as Lomov and Natalya begin discussing the details of the proposed marriage, they become embroiled in a petty argument over a disputed piece of land that lies between their properties. The argument quickly becomes heated, with both Lomov and Natalya becoming increasingly agitated and prone to hyperventilating.
As the argument reaches a fever pitch, Lomov suddenly collapses in a fit of apoplexy, and Natalya and Chubukov believe that he has died. However, he soon recovers, and the play ends with the two families agreeing to the marriage, albeit with some lingering resentment over the land dispute.
Overall, "A Marriage Proposal" is a darkly comedic exploration of human pettiness and the absurdity of everyday life. The play highlights Chekhov's skill at creating nuanced and memorable characters and his ability to capture the essence of the human experience in all its messy, contradictory glory.
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Saroyan, William. "Hello Out There." Thirty Famous One Act Plays. Ed. Bennett Cerf and Van Henry Cartmell. N.p.: Random House, 1949. 549-66. Print.
SECONDARY TEXTS:
Cummings, Edward Estlin. "love is more thicker than forget." 100 Selected Poems. Grove Press, 1959. Print.
Course: World Literature
Date: 10/22/2015
Love and money in «Hello out there» by W. Saroyan
«Hello out there» - the play of the famous writer and recognized playwright William
Saroyan which was written in 1941. It is necessary to consider that William Saroyan in his
works sought to present love to people, to incline them to high feelings, to their spiritual de
velopment, to adjust them to the desire of feeling the pulsation of their life. He was con
vinced that first of all the literature has to teach how to love, make people require self-
understanding and harmony, order and justice. In the preface to his first collection Saroyan
formulated his position: if you become angry don't let your love be strangled by it. Strive to
live. According to Balakian, N. (36) we can note three aspects that were to become character
istic of Saroyan's style: a humanistic vision; a reaching out to the ideal, the promise, the ex
pectation; and finally, a continuous search for a reality that would absorb the dream.
The leitmotif of the play is love and escape from the loneliness. The main topic of the
play: the confrontation between loving people, with clean thoughts and faith in goodness on
the one hand and violent society with its own values and cruel rules on the other hand. In this
play, I was interested in the question: what prevents love and deprives society of high feel
ings and spirituality.
The play consists mainly of the dialogue between two main characters: a Young man
who was jailed on suspicion of raping a woman and a Girl, a prison cook. In the course of
dialogue, they fall in love with each other, want to get married and are planning to escape to
San Francisco. Their plans were not to be due to the murder of the Young man by the Hus
band of a Woman allegedly raped by a Young man. Before the Young man was killed the
viewer may come to the conclusion that the guy was innocent. He was wounded up in jail
because he didn’t give money to a woman who has claimed it after their love affair:
«Young Man: I didn’t know she was your wife. I didn’t know she was anybody’s wife…She
asked me to come in» (Saroyan 559).
Immensely glaring loneliness of two main heroes immediately connect their hearts.
«Hello - out there!» - the phrase that starts this play by the voice of a Young man and finishes
this play by the voice of the Girl. This phrase brings so much loneliness on the one hand and
incredible wish to find someone on the other hand: «Young m.
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Themes in marriage proposal by anton chekhov
- 1. Themes of “ A Marriage Proposal” Made By: Saveeda Hina
- 2. Major Themes Stubbornness Lack of effective communication Greed Pride Marriage Class of Landowners Selfishness Opportunity Class superficiality Lack of emotional bonding
- 3. Stubbornness Chekov has shown us that all the three characters as being so stubborn that they can't admit being wrong. Reference NATALYA STEPANOVNA: What are you talking about? Oxen Meadows are ours, not yours! LOMOV: No, mine, honoured Natalya Stepanovna. LOMOV: He's better! NATALYA STEPANOVNA: Worse! worse! worse!
- 4. Lack of effective communication & Lack of Emotional Bonding Instead of directly proposing to Natalya, Lomov talks about their families, meadows, and dogs. Throughout the play biased and insulting statements. References NATALYA STEPANOVNA: Oxen Meadows are ours, and I shan't give them up, shan't give them up, shan't give them up! NATALYA STEPANOVNA: All, all, all!
- 5. Class of Landowners &Class Superficiality Class of Landowners Mentality of Landowners Care more about lands rather than relationships. Seek their own benefits. LOMOV: But, please, Stepan Stepanitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man! My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows fo the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. Class Superficially Always consider own self superior. See others as inferior. LOMOV: Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
- 6. Appearance can be Deceptive All three characters is maintaining a superior appearance. Natalya though being a strong-willed woman is focused on maintaining a superior appearance. Chubukov also places greater value on maintaining a superior appearance. At first, all appeared as kind, good and polite. In reality, all are aggressive when it comes to money and property. One side is appeared as good and other as greedy.
- 7. Greed and Pride Chekhov makes fun of the landowners by depicting Lomov, Natalya, and Chubukov as greedy, having pride and obsessed about ownership of a worthless tract called Oxen Meadows. Their pride and greed are so extreme that they override a marriage proposal. Lomov calls Chubukov a land grabber, but, in truth, they all are.
- 8. Marriage The major theme of Chekhov's The Proposal is the cold approach to marriage that had been common in nineteenth-century Russia, especially among the wealthy. The play, as a satire for this money-driven type of marriage, depicts the two main characters as excessively posh and desperately wanting to wed each other for economic security, blind to the fact they would not get along well.
- 9. Selfishness & Opportunity All three characters are selfish and are concerned excessively or exclusively with their own self. They are seeking one another advantage, pleasure, or well- being without regard for others. Natalia wanted to avail the opportunity of becoming the wife of a rich man. Chekhov wanted to avail the opportunity of marriage with Nataliya as she is an excellent housekeeper, not bad- looking, well-educated. Chubokhov wanted to avail the opportunity to have a rich son in law.
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