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A Bear’s Love
Anton Chekhov wrote quite a few plays which were inspired by actual events of his life and how he felt. Is The Bear sending a message that there is love at first sight or just a myth we would like to believe?
Careful analysis of the details and generalizations in Chekhovs stories present a remarkably complete and realistic picture of significant classes and institutions in Russian society. ... Chekhovs views have been distilled from a careful analysis of all of his stories. ... Hard-hitting satires, the vaudevilles mock love but also revel in how fickle our hearts can be. ... Smirnov blustering bully falls head over heels in love for the umpteenth time, utterly convinced that this time will be different when it is blatantly obvious that it will not, while the widow finds herself irresistibly drawn to a man so like her husband and so destined to disappoint her equally as much that everyone apart from her can see it will only end in tears.
Ernst Cassirer discusses how mythical thinking has seen the individual personality, but it gives an account of mythical thought itself, its application is intended by the author to be quite general; and the analogy with our own generally accepted ideas about the whole mode of apprehension of the artist, in contrast maybe with the technologist is so plain that it needs no elaboration (Holloway 121). The second part of Cassirers account of mythical thought which is sometimes linked with literature is alike but distinct from it.
Approximate Word count = 1246
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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