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Society and Morality in ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’    2
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Title: Society and Morality in The Lady with the Little Dog
Contents
Introduction    3
Central Argument    3
Supporting Points    4
Conclusion    6
Work Cited    8
Introduction
    In Anton Chekhov’s short story ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’, the author presents to his readers a complex plot of love between the protagonists Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeevna. In the story, the forty-year-old male protagonist Gurov meets a lady on the beach of Yalta. After repeated meetings, Gurov gathers the courage to interact with the lady who walks the beach with her dog. Once they start interacting, Gurov gets to know that her name is Anna and the fact that she is married. Anna’s diffident nature, her expressions of an inexperienced and unadulterated youth strongly attract Gurov. They inevitably fall in love with each other, however are forced to separate. Gurov later visits Anna and discovers that they both love each other and that they want to continue with the illicit relationship outside marriage. In the story, various themes come into play such, as love in deception, society, and morality, and the transformative power of love.
Central Argument
    In Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’, the author establishes an extremely complicated relationship between the illicit love affair of Gurov and Anna and the societal norms and morality. The dynamics of the relationship between the factors change gradually yet drastically. According to Huber, through the continuation of the illicit love affair, both Anna and Gurov attempt to discover an escape from their dead marriages, thereby breaking the laws and norms of the society and the hollow restrictions of morality. Throughout the short story, Chekhov documents the love story between Anna and Gurov without passing any judgment regarding their illicit relationship outside marriage. The author implicitly supports how the protagonists of the short story break free from the chains of society that restrict the freedom of individuals.
Supporting Points
    Through the whole length of the short story, Chekhov portrays the illicit love affair between the two protagonists, namely, Anna and Gurov without making the slightest attempt of providing a moral judgment for their actions. He also puts forward the hypocritical and petty expectations of society in a negative light, by emphasizing the positive transformations brought about in the characters due to their experience of deep love. Although the story ends in ambiguity as to how the characters wish to continue with their allegedly immoral relationship, throughout the plot, Chekhov projects the arbitrary nature of societal norms and the concepts of morality. Chekhov challenges and condemns the shallow social mores by encouraging the truth of the genuine love between Gurov and Anna.
    As observed in the story, the love relationship between Gurov and Anna begins to grow and bloom to its fullest potential when they are away from the vulturous eyes...