God Sees the Truth Script

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine on January 17th in the year 1860. Today he is remembered as a playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story. He was the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf who had bought his freedom, that and that his

as to why someone would want to speak to him. 4 paragraphs later Sergei has come to the

“Your wife does,” exclaimed Tom, startled. “She’s been talking about it for ten years.” He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes. “And now she going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away” (Fitzgerald pg123).

The man kept going in and out of dream state. With the lack of grammar and Quotations it made some dreams, mainly about how the wife was ‘faithless” and how she hopes for “eternal nothingness” (McCarthy 57). The style made it seem like she was really there but when he awaken from his dreams her realized that it was only a dream. Then he moved on with trying to forgive and forget her. While having the thought that dreaming

“They walked and talked of the strange light on the sea… talked of how sultry it was after a hot day” and discussed employment and birthplaces (897). After departing from Yalta, Chekhov details Gurov’s dreary life of “children [having] breakfast and getting ready for school… entertaining distinguished lawyers... walking his daughter to school” (901, 905).

When he heard of the critical conditions of his sister and Sveta’s boy respectively, he did not hesitate to use his first two wishes to save them respectively. His sister had a fatal lung cancer; “The fish undid it in an instant-the words barely out of Sergei's mouth.”.(lines 135-137) And

Aleksandar Nikitenko was among one of the serfs who served in Russia during the early 1800s. He was born from Ukraininan parents in Voronezh Province. His parents, soon along with Aleksandar, were serfs of the immensely wealthy Sheremetev family. Nikitenko’s father was chosen at a very early age to go to Moscow to sing in Count Sheremetev’s choir. While there, he received an education that allowed him to pursue intellectual interests. Nikitenko looked up to his father and believed that having to be kept in bondage despite his knowledge was entirely unfair. Throughout his life, Nikitenko is accepted by intelligent teachers for being quite knowledgeable. However, he is time and time again held inferior because of his social status. His family, had it not been for serfdom, would have probably been a part of a provincial middle class because of their associations with nobles and merchants.

The guards were occasionally drunk and rude to everyone. The family was only told very limited information from people outside. The whole family was starting to see what was going to happen to them. They all begun to worry and feared that their life was going to end. On the night of July 16th and 17th the family were summoned to a half-basement room on the ground floor of the house.("Biographies of Anastasia Romanova Royalty") A commanding guard, Jakob Yurovsky, told the family a statement to the family, telling them that they were about to be killed. Now they all feared for their life more than they have ever

A combination of factors sets Yakov different from society, things such as being a Jew who doesn’t believe in God, having unfortunate unluckiness, his interest in history.

Gurov is at the age of forty, he has a daughter at the age of twelve and also two other sons. By this time in most adults’ life they grow up. A man of this age most of the time is working on his career or focusing on his family. This is the complete opposite of Gurov. Gurov starts out in this short story as a lying, cheating, and heartless guy. When it was his time to marry he was very young and irresponsible about it, he marries a lady that he does not fall in

Artist Leonid Afremov was born on the twelfth of July, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus. His parents are Bella Afremov, who worked in a metal factory, and Arkadiy Afremov, who worked as a shoe designer and maker. Afremov and his parents lived a traditional Jewish home. Inessa Kagan agreed to marry him in 1976 after knowing each other for a year and had a son, Dmitry not long after the marriage. The three of them had to live with Inessa’s

As Raskolnikov’s shame takes over him, his mental health gradually deteriorates, despite his previous belief that he held enough intellectual and emotional

Thoroughly, this ordeal Gurov has been through finally has shown him that he has matured and has become a better man. As he brings his young daughter to school and when he drops her off there he begins to reflect upon the two lives he is living, one that is full of the truths and another that is full of lies. This ordeal has made him a better person unquestionably, his affair with Anna has made him ashamed of the bad things he has done in the past. They both feel that the love both of them have had with each other has changed them forever.

We will begin with an analysation of his family situation. Praskovya, his wife, had been a love constructed from the start of an economic and sociological expectation rather than that of a true courtship. The happiness therefore of the union was derived solely of a necessity to fulfill a desire on the part of others for a “success” of sorts, surely her desire as well. “Ivan Ilyich could have counted on a more illustrious match, but even this one was quite good. He had his salary, and her income, he hoped, would bring in an equal amount. (Tolstoy, 56)” Tolstoy goes on to make several remarks on the benevolent nature of the relationship between he and his wife. The arrival of his children creates no great marker in his life, and proves to be little more than a factor in his ever-lengthening retreat into his life of solitude and work.

Upon discovering the fact that Dounia and Pulcheria would soon move to St. Petersburg, Svidrigailov also sets off for the city, seeing that his wife has just unexpectedly died; this action is seen as a means in which to satisfy instant delight. Despite prior circumstances, Dounia complies to follow Svidrigailov to his room where he proceeds to coerce her. Regardless of Dounia’s adamant refusal “he had never seen her so handsome. The fire glowing in her eyes at the moment she raised the revolver seemed to kindle him and there was a pang of anguish in his heart. He took a step forward and a shot rang out. The bullet grazed his hair and flew into the wall behind him. He stood still and laughed softly” (491). This scene is the epitome of Svidrigailov’s maniacal obsessions and unveils the nature of his intentions.