Short Summary Of Natásha By Chekhov's

The strength of the women’s performances clarifies that the sisters rule their fading aristocratic home, but the end of their class privilege is signaled when Natásha instantly begins running the household after she marries their brother, Andréy (a soulful, befuddled, and finally furious Josh Hamilton). Chekhov invests in Natásha all the uncouth flailing of what he saw as the ascending middle-class. Her terrible French accent horrifies the sisters, who palpably dislike her, even before she begins reassigning their bedrooms so that her baby can have the house’s best air and light. She moves Ólga and Irína farther into the house’s lower regions, dismantling their power and their right to their own property. And, of course, one of Natásha’s

….I‟ll work, work….” (p.222-223). And Olga, reasserts the faith of all of them in life and its values when she says , “ Oh, dear sisters, our life isn‟t over yet . We shall live!”(p.223). Theses reactions of the girls and their thoughts collectively make them what has been referred to as Russian womanhood in the following words: “The sisters take each other by the hand. Their faces are stern and solemn. They speak little about what is in their hearts. Their eyes talk. Their eyes sparkle, not with tears, but with a stubborn belief in the future. And the three sisters here begin to show that they are great and strong … a magnificent type of Russian womanhood, with its suffering, self-renunciation, and moral strength.” ( Gorchakov, 1965:94).Such words about the women characters and the play also reveal its proximity with the ideas that seek to confirm women’s strength and reject the views that treat them as subordinate and secondary to men