ANTON CHEKHOV.s THE BOOR

Anton Chekov’s The Boor Analysis

Death is a secret of life. Everybody in this world will facing the death someday somewhere we don not know well because it is the God’s secret. In The Boor we will see about the story of a death and the story around it. The Boor is a drama that written by Anton Chekov in 1860-1904. The characters in The Boor are Helena Ivanovna Popov a young widow, Grigori Stepenovitch Smirnov a proprietor of a country estate and Luka the widow’s servant. The drama is about a desperate young widow named Helena Ivanovna Popov. Her husband, Nikolai Michailovitch already dead. As time goes by, she never cannot accept that his beloved husband already dead.

MRS. POPOV: And I shall never leave it--why should I? My life is over. He lies in his grave, and I have buried myself within these four walls. We are both dead.

Mrs.Popov feels that her world already end when her husband dead. The sadness still covered her from the outside’s world. She never go outside the house and make a small talk with her neighbor like make a wall with outside. Then as a royal servant, Luka try to remind his master to stop sink in a sadness. The dead is still in the ground. But the survive must continuing her life. Do not stuck in one way.

Suddenly a man is coming to the widow’s house. Yap. He is Grigori Stepanovitch Smirnov. He comes to Mrs. Popov house with a special mission, to ask the money to pay the loan from the bank in the named of his dead husband. He comes not in a polite way. Mrs. Popov still does not want to accept a guest no matter what, but Smirnov still in his own argument must meet the widow right now. He speaks rudely to Luka and also Mrs. Popov.

Of course Mrs.Popov still could not pay the money now. She will pay it the day after tomorrow. Because she does not have the money now. Then Smirnov cannot stand in this case he is he must pay the loan now. But, he is cannot say it in a polite way. He talks to Mrs. Popov rudely, he does not know about the way treating woman. When he talks to her seems he treat her like a man talks even animal. It makes Mrs. Popov is getting angry with him. Boor. It is the word that used by her to described how rude his word. They are arguing each other.

The climax is the rudeness of Smirnov, becoming so hot I think. Here we comes he bring a emancipacy there.

SMIRNOV: I'll shoot her down! I'm no fledgling, no sentimental young puppy. For me there is no weaker sex! LUKA: Oh, sir. [Falls to his knees.] Have mercy on me, an old man, and go away. You have frightened me to death already, and now you want to fight a duel. SMIRNOV: [Paying no attention.] A duel. That's equity, emancipation. That way the sexes are made equal. I'll shoot her down as a matter of principle. What can a person say to such a woman? [Imitating her.] "The devil take you. I'll put a bullet in your impudent head." What can one say to that? She was angry, her eyes blazed, she accepted the challenge. On my honor, it's the first time in my life that I ever saw such a woman.

It is not a good way of treating a woman. As a man you should can control your emotion. Not only with a woman I think. You should behave and polite. Not like Smirnov’s did to Mrs. Popov. He does not care about Mrs. Popov condition. He keeps speaking and arguing. Well, I do not know is this a part of his action in order to knowing Mrs. Popov well or not. Mrs. Popov take the gun but she does not know how to use it. Then Smirnov teaches her to use it. In the middle in teaches Mrs. Popov, suddenly he talks about his feelings to Mrs. Popov. Of course she cannot believe that. they argued again.

SMIRNOV: My mind is not clear--I can't understand. Servant--water! I have fallen in love like any young man. [He takes her hand and she cries with pain.] I love you! [He kneels.] I love you as I have never loved before. Twelve women I jilted, nine jilted me, but not one of them all have I loved as I love you. I am conquered, lost; I lie at your feet like a fool and beg for your hand. Shame and disgrace! For five years I haven't been in love; I thanked the Lord for it, and now I am caught, like a carriage tongue in another carriage. I beg for your hand! Yes or no? Will you?--Good! [He gets up and goes quickly to the door.] MRS. POPOV: Wait a minute! SMIRNOV: [Stopping.] Well? MRS. POPOV: Nothing. You may go. But--wait a moment. No, go on, go on. I hate you. Or--no; don't go. Oh, if you knew how angry I was, how angry! [She throws the revolver on to the chair.] My finger is swollen from this thing. [She angrily tears her handkerchief.] What are you standing there for? Get out!

Here we can see that all of the debating in a couple of hours about the debt. Finally bring them into I don not know how exactly to call it. Just like a love that happening in a sudden in Smirnov. Everything wired, strange could happen in love’s world. in this case I don not know what is really happened between them. All I know, death is bring a deep sadness but we should not have to sink in lament all the time. We must continue our life and facing the reality clearly.