THE PROPOSAL by Anton Chekhov
Character and Characterization:
Stepan: Chubukov is a
landowner. His physical looks like 60 years old. He is a kind-man and polite,
for instance to his neighbor. He is relax and senile.
Natalya: Natalya is a
Chubukov’s daughter. She is 25 years old. Natalya is a fussy girl. She wants to
get everything what she wants. She is in love, egad, she is like a love-sick
cat.
Ivan: Ivan is a neighbor of
Chubukov. He is 35 years old, a critical age. Ivan is a large and hearty. If he
gets nervous, his heart’s palpitating awfully, especially when face with
Natalya. He does not have a brave in front of woman.
Setting:
Place: It is happened in
Chubunkov’s country-house, exactly a t drawing room.
Time: It is happened in
evening, about 7 p.m.
Plot
Summary:
In the evening, Lomov comes to
Chubunkov’s house. He wears evening dress, gloves, hat, and so on. Chubunkov is
surprised but feels so glad when meet him. Lomov says that he wants to propose
Natalya, Chubunkov’s daughter. Chubunkov is very happy when hears that and
directly accepts the proposal. Lomov feels he is not proper man to Natalya. It
is the right time for Lomov to ask Natalya in marriage.
Chubunkov shouts to call
Natlya. Natalya enters to drawing room. She seems happy and shy. First they are
talking about the wheather. Then when Lomov discusses Oxen meadows is his mine,
Natalya becomes dies angry and says disagreement. She quarrels with Lomov to
get land right. Natalya humiliates Lomov, she thinks that he is a good neighbor
but Lomov is just a Land-grabber, Lomov cannot control has emotional sense and
shout to Natalya. Natalya complais to her father and ask to him to state that
Meadows is Chubukov’s mine. Lomov accuses Chubukov has taken the Meadows from
Lomov’s family. He thinks that the Lomov’s is honourable people.
The situation becomes more
critical, Lomov and Chubukov humiliate their family each other. Lomov’s heart
cannot stop palpitate. Then he decides to leave that house. After Lomovs
leaving them, Chubukov forget to say that actually Lemov’s co,oing is to
propose Natalya. He wants to make a proposal. Natalya is shocked when hear
that. She wants Lomov comeback soon. Natalya shall acknowledge that Oxen
Meadows is Lomov’s mine. She also asks forgiving abaout debating before.
Chubukov is greatly asthonished with the alteration of his daughter opinion.
Natalya and Lomov talk of
something else. They talk about their dogs. But they repeat their fight
anymore. Lomov argues that Guess is the best dog. He is a first-rate dog. But
Natalya disagree it, the squeezer is better than Guess. They do it again,
humiliate to each other. Chubukov joins the dispute. They compare their dogs
and tell the ugliness.
Suddenly, Lomov feels numb and
collapse. Natalya shouts to her papa, Lomov has died. Chubukov is frightened
and take a drink to make Lomov awake. Unexpectedly, Lomov becomes aware, and
Chubukov ask to them marry as quickly. Natalya is willing to marry with Lomov.
They kiss each other,, and Natalya said that Lomov wants to admit Guess is
worse that squeezer. Lomov disagree it, and argues that Guess is the best.
Theme:
The farce explores the process
of getting married and could be read as asatire on
the upper middle class and courtship. The
play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage
and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows the characters'
desperation for marriage as comical. In Chekhov's Russia,
marriage was a mean of economic stability for most people. They married to gain
wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure. The satire is conveyed
successfully by emphasizing the couple's foolish arguments over small things.
The main arguments in the play revolve around The Oxen Meadows and two dogs
called Ugadi and Otkatai
Conclusion:
The conclusion is content
the man and the society. In this story, the man faced by the society in around.
The story is so funny with the actor and actress which so funny. This drama can
entertainment us and the story so easy to understand. There are any three
actors in this story: Stepan, Natalya and Ivan. We can take the positive point
of this story, there are the differences of us can not be something that make
someone be enemy. Finally the differences of us will be something that good and
nice in the end. So we must accept the differences between us and then respect
each other.
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