Anton Chekhov, in full Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born on January 29 1860, Taganrog, Russia, is a Russian playwright and ace of the modern short story. He was a scholarly craftsman of brisk exactness who tested beneath the surface of life, exposing the mystery thought processes of his characters. Chekhov depicted the Russian existence of his time utilizing a misleadingly straightforward strategy without prominent artistic gadgets, and he is viewed as the extraordinary delegate of the late nineteenth century Russian realist school. Anton Chekhov is perceived as a master of the modern short story and a main dramatist of the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years.
Anton Chekov’s A Marriage Proposal a farce, follows the intentions and expectations of Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov, a wealthy yet sublimely suspicious person, who wishes to marry Natalia, the daughter of his neighbor, Stepan (full name).
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov
Ivan (full name’s) character in Anton Chekov’s A marriage proposal is on a very basic level a comic one. Lomov is a 35-year-old person, and an apprehensive hypochondriac, who is socially cumbersome and inclined to nervousness assaults. Ivan is wealthy, however sublimely suspicious and inclined to argumentative conduct and attacks of irrationality. In the play, he is seen endeavoring to work up his nerve to propose to Natalia, his neighbor’s little girl. They are not all around familiar, regardless of being neighbors.
As is moderately uncovered through the span of the play, he isn’t especially romantic, and his proposal has more to do with the financial favorable position of consolidating their families’ adjoining properties than with a specific level of affection for Natalia or wish to get married. His endeavors to really propose continue getting crashed as he and Natalia get in different disagreements.
Regardless of attempting this marriage for personal benefits and financial purposes, ivan is seen quarreling with his bride-to-be; they argue over the ownership of the Oxen meadows and in the latter part of the play over the superiority of their hunting dogs. The worry of these disputes makes Ivan encounter palpitations, leg deadness, and a possible fall because of fatigue.
Indeed, even after he is restored, Ivan keeps on bringing up inconvenience by starting another argument quickly, however with some assistance from her father, and in spite of a major fit of anxiety, he does effectively succeed with regards to proposing and the proposal is acknowledged after Natalia accepts the proposal with a kiss.
Over the course of the play we see, Ivan A ridiculous figure befitting farce, whose defining character is his lack of character.
NATALIA STEPANOVNA
Natalia the female character in Chekov’s play The Marriage Proposal is a rather hypocritical, and obstinate and argumentative person. With her father’s saying that “a merchant has come for his goods”, Natalia enters the room to find there Ivan (full name)
she greets Lomov with warmth and is very gracious as she asks him to stay for lunch and then hands him the matches and permits him to smoke and compliments him upon his appearance. However, unaware that Lomov has come bearing a proposal for marriage, when Lomov speaks of “my meadows”, she abruptly interrupts and contradicts him. she accuses him of his injustice. An argument then ensues over who owns the land. when Lomov tries to ease the situation by saying that he’d offer them to her as a gift, she continues to insist upon her ownership of them in the first place. when Natalia’s father enters the room, he joins his daughter in arguing with Lomov, until Lomov leaves.
After Lomov leaves, Natalia calls him a “rascal” and says “What trust can one have in one’s neighbors after that!” and her father adds other words such as, “Villain! Scarecrow!”
However, soon after her father reveals to Natalia that Lomov had come to ask her hand in marriage she becomes hysteric. She shouts, “bring him back! Bring him back!” and once Lomov is back in her house she begins to argue with Lomov about his dogs.
STEPHAN STEPANOVITCH TSCHUBUKOV
Anton Chekov portrays Tschubukov as an impetuous and hypocritical man. when Lomov first comes to visit, Tschubukov greets him exuberantly, shaking his hand and saying, “My dear fellow… I am extremely glad to see you!” but, when his neighbor Lumov says he has come with a request, Tschubukov grumbles in an aside, “He’s come to borrow money! Shan’t give him any!” then he turns to his neighbor and congenially asks, “what is it, then, dear Lomov?”.
When Lomov finally gets around to asking for the hand of his daughter, Tschubukov again gushes with sentimentality, even suppressing a tear, and declares to his neighbor that he has always loved him. He has a little fun with his daughter as he tells her that a dealer has come when Lomov comes to propose.
Later when it seems that his daughter will not marry Lomov and will not acquire the adjacent property, because he never told Natalia that Lomov had come to propose and she had dismissed him after an argument, Tschubukov becomes hysterical, shouting names at Lomov and complaining. After Lomov’s exit, Tschubukov realizes that a financial opportunity has walked out the door and he grumbles that he’s an unhappy man with a grown-up daughter and that he’d rather have his throat cut.
When Tschubukov reveals to his daughter that Lomov had come with a proposal, much to Natalia’s shock, she shouts at her Father to bring him back. Tschubukov yells that
When another argument brews up regarding Lomov’s dogs, Tschubukov intervenes, determined not to lose a second chance and settles the matters quick;
“Hurry up and get married… she’s willing! She’s willing and all that. I give you my blessing.”
The play ends with Tschubukov yelling “Champagne! Champagne!” to congratulate the two and to put an end to Lomov’s and Natali’a continuous bickering.
Each of the three characters, in any case, are very comparable in their appraisals of marriage as methods for financial steadiness. In like manner, every one of the characters consider property and pride as substantially more important than sentiment.
In his play The Marriage Proposal Anton Chekov conveys to the audience the cultural practice of Russia in the nineteenth century, which is money-driven marriages overriding marriages with affection and love.
