“Medicine Is My Lawful Wife, And Literature Is My Mistress. When I Get Fed Up Wi

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Term Paper Title	“Medicine Is My Lawful Wife, And Literature Is My Mistress. When I Get Fed Up Wi
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“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.  When I get fed up with one, I
spend the night with the other”

- Anton Chekhov

     Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a key component in the world of literature.  He was
born January 17, 1860 in the town of Taganrog, Ukraine.  He grew up the son of a grocer,
and was shadowed by his fathers tyranny and religious fanaticism.  As a child he attended
a Greek boys school, and grammar school.  Early on he felt a calling to practice medicine,
and was drawn to literature.  For college, Chekhov attended the Moscow University
Medical School.  While at medical school he published hundreds of comic short stories,
to support his family.  By writing plays in school, he became interested in writing for the
theater.  He graduated medical school in 1884, and practiced medicine in Moscow until
1892.  Chekhov’s first book of stories in 1886 was a success, and he gradually became a
full-time writer.  With the help of critical recognition and encouragement he wrote many
serious stories.
     In 1890 he traveled across Siberia to a remote island and did a detailed census of
about 10,000 convicts and settlers which were condemned to live on an unfriendly island.
From this journey and experience he wrote his book THE ISLAND: A JOURNEY TO
SAKHALIN.  His first full-length play IVANOV was a failure.  The Moscow Art Theater
performed THE SEA GULL, and it was then he was overwhelmed with success.
Chekhov is said to have three masterpieces which are UNCLE VANYA, THE THREE
SISTERS, and THE CHERRY ORCHARD.  In these plays he blended laughter and tears
and left room for imagination.  His plays and stories reflect many different viewpoints.
     Chekhov’s writings are influenced by Gogol, Lermontov, and Tolstoy.  But, in his
writings he was most influenced by Turgenev.  Chekhov would take issues and
impressive techniques and use them in his stories.  Chekhov has a “resolution by means
of a surpris...

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