Thematic Cluster: Love, Sexualities, and Marriage in Literature
Abstract
In his article "Marriage in the Short Stories of Chekhov" Mark Richard Purves explores Anton Chekhov's often occurring depiction of marriage. Purves posits that Chekhov's depiction of the experience of marriage raises important ontological questions about the core features of family life such as what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a wife, and the degree of relatedness between them. Chekhov elaborates on what he sees as matrimony's central antinomy, namely that the wedding of one individual to another produces loneliness, an absence of intimacy, and a kind of alienation so acute it causes love itself to cool in a relationship pulled apart by the asymmetries of social status and personal likes and dislikes.
Recommended Citation
Purves, Mark Richard
"Marriage in the Short Stories of Chekhov."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.3
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2454>
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