Character sketch on The young seagull for grade 7 in 350 words
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Nope I don’t know but I can say that the seagull was acrophobiatic
One month before Chekhov finished writing The Seagull, this is the synopsis he offered to Savoriness, a rich publisher and journalist. It is an interesting account of its lack of action and emphasis on love, even if it does miss out one of the female characters. Called Чайка (or “Chayefsky”) in Russian, Chekhov’s play has become one of the most famous and celebrated plays ever written.
Chekhov was 35 at the time he wrote The Seagull and was yet to have a major success as a playwright: “I am once again convinced", he wrote to Savoriness, after having completed the play “that I am absolutely not a dramatist”. There were difficulties getting the play past the theatrical censor, and then the first ever production of the play, at the Alexandrian Theater at a jubilee benefit, was an unmitigated disaster, during which Chekhov fled from the theater. It was not until Stanislavsky’s famous production for the Moscow Arts Theater in 1898 that the play was established as a success.However, perhaps Chekhov’s idea of comedy might be more usefully considered alongside Shakespeare’s: if you consider The Seagull alongside Twelfth Night, there are many similarities. There is certainly a juxtaposition of comedy with sadness, and with a streak of unpleasantness and cruelty – and undoubtedly a shared obsession with love unrequited. One might also usefully argue that Twelfth Night’s denouement, though not as final as The Seagull’s, with Valvoline swearing revenge and furiously exiting, foreshadows, in some ways, the uneasiness of Chekhov’s “comedy”. Though perhaps the last word on The Seagull should be given to Tom Stoppard. Asked why Chekhov’s “comedy” contains so much suffering and sadness, he replied that the question “Is the play a com
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