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The Image of a Doctor and its Transformation in the Works of A. P. Chekhov
- Authors: Ding Y.1
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 3(871) (2023)
- Pages: 136-143
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/352209
- ID: 352209
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The author traces the transformation of the image of the county doctor in the works of A. P. Chekhov, analyzes its causes. The purpose of the study is to characterize the personality qualities that the writer pays attention to while creating the image of a doctor. The work uses systematic, descriptive, comparative, cultural and historical methods of analysis. The material for the study was the stories «Ionich», «Belated Flowers», as well as the plays «Uncle Vanya» and «Three Sisters», in which the images of degrading doctors are comprehensively revealed. The characters-doctors in the analyzed works are characterized by: striving for material values, hypocrisy, selfishness, passivity, professional burnout, etc.
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Yihong Ding
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Email: Yihongding@yandex.ru
Postgraduate Student, Department of the History of Russian Literature
Russian FederationReferences
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