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    Anton Chekhov was a renowned Russian physician and author in the late 19th century. He is considered a master of the short story genre. The story "The Man Who Lived in a Shell" by Chekhov features a character named Belikov, a middle-aged bachelor teacher who lives a solitary life, completely closed off from others behind the "shell" of his home. A new teacher named Kavalenkov joins the school with his extroverted sister Varya, and they try to engage Belikov socially. However, Belikov remains firmly enclosed in his isolated world and philosophical views, unable to accept change or open himself to human connection. The story examines themes of introversion

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    Anton Chekhov was a renowned Russian physician and author in the late 19th century. He is considered a master of the short story genre. The story "The Man Who Lived in a Shell" by Chekhov features a character named Belikov, a middle-aged bachelor teacher who lives a solitary life, completely closed off from others behind the "shell" of his home. A new teacher named Kavalenkov joins the school with his extroverted sister Varya, and they try to engage Belikov socially. However, Belikov remains firmly enclosed in his isolated world and philosophical views, unable to accept change or open himself to human connection. The story examines themes of introversion

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    Anton Chekhov was a renowned Russian physician and author in the late 19th century. He is considered a master of the short story genre. The story "The Man Who Lived in a Shell" by Chekhov features a character named Belikov, a middle-aged bachelor teacher who lives a solitary life, completely closed off from others behind the "shell" of his home. A new teacher named Kavalenkov joins the school with his extroverted sister Varya, and they try to engage Belikov socially. However, Belikov remains firmly enclosed in his isolated world and philosophical views, unable to accept change or open himself to human connection. The story examines themes of introversion

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    A MAN WHO LIVED IN A SHELL

    Anton Chekhov
    Physician
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician,
    dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the
    greatest writers of short stories in history. 
    Born: January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia
    Died: July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
    Spouse: Olga Knipper (m. 1901–1904)
    Siblings: Maria Chekhova, Nikolai Chekhov, 
    Alexander Chekhov, Ivan Chekhov, Mikhail Chekhov
    Books: Stories of Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog.
    PRESENTER
    GHULAM MUSTAFA
    LAHORE LEADS UNIVERSITY
    ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV
    Chekhov popular lines
    Medicine is my lawful wife

    and

    Literature is my mistress
    GENRE
    SHORT STORY
    Original Language

    Russian
    Translator into English

    Ivy Litvinov
    characters
     Belikov: Teacher of Greek language at
    school, forty years old bechelor.
     Varya: sister of a new school teacher
    Kavalenkov.
     Kavalenkov: A new teacher of history at
    the school.
    How the Story moves ahead?

    In the moonlight, two men, Burkin, the high


    school teacher narrates a story of a
    townsfolk, Belikov to his friend Ivan Ivanich,
    the vertinary surgeon.
    Setting

    Time “night” at the “shed” belongs to


    Prokofy, a village elder.
    Style and Techniques
     Narrative “Frame tale "a tale within a tale, in which a person
    relates his personal anecdote to an other character, like in
    the story, Burkin narrates a story of weird man at school “
    Belikov”
     Third person narration.
     Nocturnal landscape, happened at night like Burkin narrates
    the life of Belikov at night in the moolight.
     Commentary on human life.
     Atmosphere is very calm.
     Binary opposition.
     Informal discussion about some subject.
     No unity of time place and action like Aristotle as this story
    has no beginning , middle and end.
    Who was the man?
     An alienated person and follower of his
    philosophy, the only resident of his world
    who does not allow anyone to enter his world
    or to oppose his idea.
     He wears tight coat, galoshes, gloves

    umbrella, even at night he used to sleep


    under canopy.
     He has his shell/ capsule in which he used to

    live like every person.


    Introduction to the story
     The man who lived in shell is a story about the class
    of a special group of people.
     These people always spend out their lives in shell of

    their confinement and remains closed behind all


    closed doors. Belikove is introvert and lives in his
    own shell. His room was like a box and there was
    canopy over his bedroom making it a perfect shell.
     When an other teacher joins the school with is sister

    who was very jovial.


     There is discovery that Belikhov is bechelor and can

    be married to Varya who wish for a change in his


    life.
    Continue
     But these were two banks of a stream that
    can not meet or two opposite poles that can
    not be reconciled.
     Varya and his brother were extrovert.
     It is due to the fact that Balikov is a man who

    lived in a shell so he can’t step out to see the


    light of reality like many of us.
     He can’t face the reality and true nature of

    things.
    Chekhov major concerns/ Themes
     Humanity must be free from tyranny and coercion, Belikhov
    is a social tyrant a mean spirited individual who not only
    maintains rigid control over himself but also suppresses the
    impulse toward liberation in other.
     This story is insidious threat to human freedom and
    fulfillment.
     Introvert vs. extrovert
     Self-restrainment.
     Change.
     Realism .
     Philosophical suicide to avoid sufferings.
     Socialable vs. unsocialable.
     Atavism : imitate or continue customs of earlier life.
    Conclusion
     It is a thing of common sense that every one of us
    has constructed walls around us, own philosophy and
    theory and a self created world in which we dislike to
    share with other, we don’t want change in life .
     We don’t want the suicide of our philosophy like
    Belikov and result is sufferings.
     Every one of us living in a shell and does not want to
    step out to see light.
     Chekhov presents before us a universal theme with
    the life history of Belikov, we reject Kavalenkov and
    Varya as we don’t want change in our lives as we are
    living in our shells.
     But the question is there Belikhov is
    production of the society, who is responsible
    for the construction of such like fragmented
    figures?
     Or, this is psychological case?
     Is Belikov is totally responsible for his action

    as he has been given freedom of choice?


     Is there any reality in the this story?
     How can we apply this story in our lives?
    All the best

    THANKS

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