Love and Adultery
"The lady with the dog" by Anton Chekhov is about a married man, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov, who committed adultery with a married woman, Anna Sergeyevna. During the course of the story, they both end up falling in love and secretly try to find a way to keep seeing each other. Throughout my essay, I will trace the development of the themes beginning with adultery, following with love, and finally with their overlapping. I will prove that the relationship between love and adultery is the desire to be with that person and the pleasure that is received from it. The aspect of adultery starts right from the beginning as Dmitri was taking interest in new arrivals at the Yalta. He seizes one particular woman called Anna and thought she would be a perfect prey for an affair. Planning and chasing her around her schedule shows a desire of adultery. For example, he meets her at the gardens several times a day until one evening she sits down at the table next to him as he is dinning. He seizes this moment as an excellent opportunity to make her acquaintance. The desire took possession of him, "...he remembered these tales of easy conquest, of trips to the mountains, and the tempting thought of a swift, fleeting love affair, a romance with an
we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence."(Chekhov, 232) In love, without Anna, everything was unbearable"...no escaping or getting away from it-just as though one were in madhouse or prison" and again "He was sick of his children, sick of the bank..." (Chekhov, 234) Chekhov shows that the overlap are truly related with desire. In conclusion, the desire that you see in love and adultery is so similar that if one is unaware of the intention they will not see any difference. Chekhov illustrates that Dmitri starts simply with the amusement of having a love affair. It progresses into love, which possessed him and took Anna to heart. And finally, Chekhov shows that the overlap of themes are truly related with desire. I have proven that the two themes and their overlap are the desire and pleasure that is received in one another under any circumstances. The aspect of love and adultery overlap in several ways during the story. Dmitri's quest to conquer Anna as another affair resulted in him meeting her every day to lunch and dine together. With love, they capture each other and with adultery they continue seeing one another secretly knowing they will have to deal with a double life. In both cases, the emotional th
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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