Chekhov's Three Sisters: time conflict and dramatic irony
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2022.194969Keywords:
Anton Chekhov, Three sisters, Time, Temporality, Dramatic ironyAbstract
In Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters, the characters gather in the same provincial house, but each experience expresses in its way different temporalities. Temporalities related to boredom, memory, melancholy, desire, refusal, and dream meet and clash through dysfunctional dialogues that seem to isolate rather than bring together. In this paper, I show how the dramatic progression of this play is based on a kind of structural irony, which destabilizes the form of traditional drama and reveals the complexity of the temporal experience of the Russian provinces in a period of crisis.
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