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Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Lady With The Dog Chekhov

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Shacovia 3 Name: Greene Shacovia Tutor: Jackman V. Course: Literature Date: 22 Feb 2016 Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog The short story, "The Lady with the Dog", by the Russian author Anton Chekhov was published in 1899 as an analogy about an affair between a banker on vacation in Yalta and a young lady structured in a four-part series. The literary devices of flashback and foreshadowing as used in the story will be discussed. For the story flashback lets the author give the readers a background of the main character’s circumstances by helping the story have clues and a better understanding of the current actions of the character. Foreshadowing, on the other hand is a method that gives the story suspense by creating suspense in the reader. In the end, the essay will prove that the author expects the reader not to cast quick judgments on the characters without understanding the context of their story. …show more content…

This literary device strengthens the story in that there is a deeper understanding of the character and a development of empathy with his circumstances. Flashback is when the author writes, “He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago-had been unfaithful to her often, and, probably on that account, almost always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked about in his presence, used to call them ‘the lower race’” (Llewellyn Smith). In this example, the reader gets to understand why he exhibits his current view on women and when that attitude started. In addition it leads the reader to wonder what might have the character to develop this

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