Ivanov's Characters

Ivanov is a play by Anton Chekhov in four acts. The piece was composed in 1887 and was originally a comedy presented. 1889 by the author in a revised version as a drama released. The plot takes place in an unspecified Russian provincial town at the end of the 19th Century onwards. Building on his early play Platonov , the protagonist, the author was in his usual manner, occur here as a failed intellectuals from the minor nobility, which are able to find out their everyday apathy no way out and instead sink into daydreams. The title of the piece is a common Russian surname, which is to stand here as a synonym for "the world".

The play takes place in a district of central Russia. The first act opens in the garden of the property of Ivanov. Thirty five years, Nicolas Alekseevich Ivanov is responsible for the management of peasant land. Its business is bad: it has more money to pay workers and owes interest to Lebedev, chairman of the Zemstvo (guardian.co.uk). Ivanov had a great passion of love with his wife, born Sarah Abramson, who broke with his Jewish parents, changed religion and abandoned his fortune to marry her. Chekhov created this ambiguous, complex and modern character, for which he chose the name of Ivanov, which probably the most common in Russia. Ivanov is perhaps the most curious piece of Chekhov. More than Nina in The Seagull, the character is at the center of the work: "I felt that all writers and playwrights had felt the need to depict a sad and be all they had written instinctively, without a view. With my project, I typed in about the miles, "said Chekhov.

Ivanov is not just a character and destiny, but a figure specifically located in an ethical, cultural. "Day and night, I suffer ... my conscience ... I feel terribly guilty, but where exactly is my guilt, I do not absolutely seized ... (Chekhov, pp. 56)." Ivanov is clearly a justice who would appreciate the ambiguity and the complexity of human beings. Questioning brought into play by Chekhov is for its time, but for our whole culture. The figure appears to us today as the epitome of the masculine subject of modern times.

It's true, is emblematic of The Seagull by Chekhov theater, but Ivanov is probably the play most curious and most interesting. This is the character himself already, more than Nina in The Seagull, is located in the center of the work. Ivanov, this is not just a character with a character, a psychology and a singular destiny, but a figure specifically located in an ethical, cultural absolutely fundamental. Ivanov is agnostic, it is nevertheless marked, almost stigmatized by some interpretation of the dogma that leads to suffering and sacrifice in an infinite quest for God. An atheist in this research turns to wandering distraught (theater2.nytimes.com).

Ivanov driving under the sign of the Christian injunction: "Love your neighbor as yourself" course deserves to be questioned. As often in Chekhov, but here are particularly acute, we fail to judge according to the criteria of ...