characterskech of natalya,lomov and chukbov
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Chubukov is projected as a loving father but a greedy man who is looking for a good match for his daughter. Lomov was a thirty five year old unmarried man. He anxiously waited to get married because he had reached a critical age. He proposed a girl named Natalya in his neighbourhood.
The dramatist portrays Natalya more as a character who with Lomov helps to develop the middle and comic scenes of the play than as a heroine of this one-act play. The ‘love-sick’ cat, Natalya does not even know Lomov’s reason of arrival to her house in the very beginning of the play, rather engages herself in a quarrel with Lomov over Oxen Meadows and Guess versus Squeezer. She is a lonely and sharp-minded woman who is not willing to give one inch of their land to others. But when she gets the wind of Lomov’s proposal of marriage, she desperately wants him back. Even though she is broached as an argumentative and quarrelsome woman, she at once accepts Lomov’s proposal to spend her rest of the life with him.
Chubukov :
Chubukov is delineated as Natalya’s father in the one-act play “The Proposal”. He wants her daughter to get married as early as possible and that’s why he accepts Lomov’s proposal for marriage for her daughter, though he doesn’t like Lomov to a great extent. Natalya seems to be burden to her father and he desperately wants to get rid of her. The dramatist’s portrayal of Chubukov considering her daughter a liability reflects the social life and mindset of the people encompassing marriage as a means to mitigate the burden on the part of a girl’s father. Inspite of all these, he acts as a gulf between Natalya and Lomov and wishes that they get married soon.