The principle ‘forgive and forget,’ helps a lot in maintaining cordial relations with our neighbours.
Do you think Anton Chekov conveys this message in the play ‘The Proposal’?
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Answer:Letting go of anger and bitterness can work wonders both for our attitude and for our health. Anger may spoil anything like poison. One cannot afford to remain wallowing in the marsh of anger or sad feelings. Life has to move on and if one wants to get ahead one has to imbibe “forgive and forget”. Only sensitive and great people can follow this gospel. In the present play “The Proposal” we find that Lomov visits the house of Chubukov with a proposal to marry his daughter Natalaya. Chubukov’s joy knows no bounds, to hear this. But in course of their common talk, they pick up nonsensical issues and stand fighting and abusing each other. Even Natalaya also jumps into the ring of verbal quarrel. When things become normal after the sudden departure of Lomov, Natalaya comes to know about the proposal, she asks her father to call Lomov back. When he comes back this time he and Natalaya start abusing each other and have heated f ight over dogs. But in the end, they compromise, they forget their issue and forgive each other. The proposal changes into marriage. Hence we see that the principle helped them unite.