Презентация к уроку
английского языка по теме:
«Знаменитые люди России:
творчество Антона Павловича
Чехова».
Учитель английского языка
ГБОУ СОШ № 629 г. Москвы:
Баева Марина Леонидовна
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Oskolki (1882);
The Steppe
The Story of a Journey (1888);
The Seagull (1894);
The Lady with the Dog (1899);
The Darling (1899);
Three Sisters (1900);
The Cherry Orchard (1904);
Plays and short stories.
The famous characters
of this story are:
•Olenka
•Plemyanniakov
•Kukin
•Vassily Andreitch
Pustovalov
•Smirnin
•Sasha
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the daughter of a retired collegiate
assessor.
Very beautiful, but is also emotional,
gentle, soft-hearted, compassionate, with
mild and tender eyes.
Easily sways with the opinions around her
and follows those that are closes to her.
She is referred to as "darling" for her
sweet personality and willingness to give.
Olenka’s Father - A
retired collegiate
assessor – has fallen ill
and dies at the
beginning of the story.
 Olenka's first male
figure.
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A neighbor of Olenka – manages the open air theater.
 Becomes Olenka’s first husband and dies when he works in
Moscow.
 Described as a small thin man, with a yellow face, with curls.
 talks in a thin tenor voice with an expression of despair, but
had a deep genuine affection in Olenka.
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Olenka's neighbor,
a merchant from a timber yard.
He comforts her after the death of Kukin and falls in love with Olenka.
Falls ill from a cold and later dies a few months later.
Olenka's third male figure.
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a veterinary surgeon;
has separated from his wife who
has his son;
left her because of
unfaithfulness;
Easily embarrassed by Olenka;
Olenka's fourth male figure.
and his son
Sasha
• Smirnin’s son from his previous
marriage:
• attends school and is very intelligent.
• Parents abandoned him for work and
social lives so was raised by Olenka.
• This is the last male figure that Olenka
cares for, but smothers him with maternal
love as compared to her previous
husbands male figures.
Discussion
What do you think about the main
characters?
 How do you compare Olenka with
young modern generation?
 Comment Chekhov’s words “Keep a
man in yourself”.
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The conclusion
Chekhov is famed for an economy of words and a sparing
use of detail. Almost every word is important and is used to
convey a single impression of a person or situation.
Chekhov portrays Olenka in three very different romantic
situations with the identical result; the reader cannot fail to
grasp the point. The fourth situation occurs when the time
for romantic love has passed, yet the love for the boy,
Sasha, produces the same result: complete adoption of
the opinions of the person loved. In the limited space of
the short story the various characters are well-defined,
demonstrating the ability of the author to impart much
information in a very small space.
Fluent view on his other
works
The Three Sisters;
The Cherry Orchard.
Three Sisters is a naturalistic
play about the decay of the
privileged class in Russia
and the search for meaning
in the modern world. It
describes the lives and
aspirations of the Prozorov
family, the three sisters
(Olga, Masha, and Irina)
and their brother Andrei.
They are a family
dissatisfied and frustrated
with their present existence.
The sisters are refined and
cultured young women who
grew up in urban Moscow;
however for the past eleven
years they have been living
in a provincial town.
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The eldest of the three sisters, she is only 28 years old. Olga is a teacher
at the high school, where she frequently fills in for the oft-absent
headmistress. Olga is a spinster and at one point tells Irina that she
would have married "any man, even an old man if he had asked" her.
Olga is very motherly even to the elderly servants, keeping on the elderly
nurse-retainer Anfisa, long after she has ceased to be useful. When Olga
reluctantly takes the role of headmistress permanently, she takes Anfisa
with her to escape the clutches of the heartless Natasha.
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The middle sister, she is 21 at the
beginning of the play. She married
her husband, Kulygin, when she was
18 and just out of school. When the
play opens she has been
disappointed in the marriage and
falls completely in love with the
idealistic Lieutenant-Colonel
Vershinin. They begin a clandestine
affair. When he is transferred away,
she is crushed, but returns to life
with her husband, who accepts her
back despite knowing what she has
done. She has a short temper, which
is seen frequently throughout the
play, and is the sister who
disapproves the most about
Natasha.
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The youngest sister, she is 20 at
the beginning of the play, she is
called “name day” and though
she insists when she is grown-up.
She is still enchanted by things
such as a spinning top brought
to her by Fedotik. Her only desire
is to go back to Moscow, which
they left eleven years before the
play begins. She believes she will
find her true love in Moscow, but
when it becomes clear that they
are not going to Moscow, she
agrees to marry the Baron
Tuzenbach, whom she admires
but does not love. She gets her
teaching degree and plans to
leave with the Baron, but he is
shot by Solyony in a pointless
duel. She decides to leave
anyway and dedicate her life to
work and service.
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he is a brother of the three sisters. In Act I, he is a young man on the fast track to
being a Professor in Moscow. In Act II, Andrei still longs for his old days as a
bachelor dreaming of a life in Moscow but it is now stuck in town with a baby
and a job as a secretary for the Country Council. In Act III, Andrei's debts have
grown to 35,000 rubles and he has been forced to mortgage the house, although
he doesn't tell his sisters or give them any shares. Act IV finds Andrei in a
pathetic shell of his former self, now the father of two. He acknowledges that he
is a failure and that he is laughed at in town because he is only a member of the
village council, of which Protopopov, his wife's lover, is the president.
Discussion
What do you think about the main
characters?
 “To live people must work”. How can you
comment these words?
 What do you need to be happy?
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The conclusion
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I have an intense love or hate
relationship with Chekhov and it is
because of this play. Three sisters sitting
around whining about taking the train to
Moscow. It is a story of transformation,
boredom and listlessness. Which may be
why I felt bored and listless when reading
it. Perhaps. To go to Moscow. To go back
to Moscow. Moscow. . .Moscow. . .
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The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her
family as they return to their family estate (which includes a
large and well-known cherry orchard) just before it is
auctioned to pay the mortgage. While presented with
options to save the estate, the family essentially does
nothing and the play ends with the sale of the estate to the
son of a former seft; the family leaves to the sound of the
cherry orchard being cut down. The story presents themes
of cultural futility – both the futile attempts of the aristocracy
to maintain its status and of the bourgeoisie to find meaning
in its newfound materialism.
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Ranyevskaya is the linchpin
around which the other
characters revolve. A
commanding and popular
figure, she represents the
pride of the old aristocracy,
now fallen on hard times. Her
confused feelings of love for
her old home and sorrow at
the scene of her son's death,
give her an emotional depth
that keeps her from devolving
into a mere aristocratic
grotesque. Most of her humor
comes from her inability to
understand financial or
business matters.
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Lyubov's daughter,
aged 17. She
journeys to Paris to
rescue her mother
from her desperate
situation. She is a
virtuous and strong
young woman. She is
in love with Trofimov
and listens to his
revolutionary ideas,
although she may or
may not be taking
them in.
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Lyubov's adopted daughter, aged 27. Varya creates one of
the mysteries of the play: why did Ranyevskaya adopt her? Is
she the illegitimate child of her late husband? Is she the
bastard daughter of Gayev? Serious and deeply religious,
Varya is very controlling towards other characters. She has a
troubled relationship with Lopakhin, to whom she is
romantically linked, but of whom she disapproves.
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a student and Anya's love interest. Trofimov is depicted as an
"eternal" and "wandering" student. An impassioned left-wing
political commentator, he represents the rising tide of reformist
political opinion in Russia, which struggled to find its place
within the authoritarian Czarist autocracy.
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the brother of Madame
Ranevskaya. One of the
more obviously comic
characters, Gayev is a
talkative eccentric. His
addiction to billiards, often
manifesting itself at times of
discomfort, is symbolic of
the aristocracy's decadent
life of leisure, which renders
them impotent in the face
of change. Gayev tries hard
to save his family and
estate, but ultimately, as an
aristocrat, lacks the drive.
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a merchant. Lopakhin is by far the
wealthiest character in the play, but
comes from the lowest social class.
This contrast defines his character:
he enjoys living the high life, but at
the same time is uncomfortably
conscious of his low beginnings and
obsession with business. He is often
portrayed on stage as an
unpleasant character because of
his greedy tendencies and ultimate
betrayal of the Gayev family, but
there is nothing in the play to
suggest this: he works strenuously to
help the Gayevs, but to no avail.
Lopakhin represents the new
middle class in Russia, one of many
threats to the old aristocratic way of
doing things.
Discussion
What do you think about the main
characters?
 How do you compare the family tree
with the name of the play?
 What do people live for?
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The conclusion
“Do you see that tree?
It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it
would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life
in one way or another.”
 “There will come a time when everybody will know why, for
what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more
mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!”
 “As Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was to Russian Ballet was Anton
Chekhov to the Russian stage. The Three Sisters (1901) is a play in
four scenes and relates the mundane life of a well-to-do Russian
family. The men and women in this society couldn't imagine
working for a living. They don’t seem very happy with their
circumstances but looked down on all that were forced to live
by trade or some other physical endeavor. Military service or
intellectual enterprises were acceptable but only as a last reso…
more.”
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You have seen the advert on TV and would
like to star in the film “The Darling”.
Write your letter of application.
Include: why you would like the part, why you
think you would be good at it.
Follow the rules of letter writing.
Write 100-140 words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chek
hov
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters
_%28play%29
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_
Orchard
 http://www.kinoteatr.ru/teatr/movie/976/titr/
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