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In the beginning of this article there is a comparison between the personages, themes, and events in Lev Tolstoy and Feodor Dostayevski works opposed to Anton Checkov’s works. Opposed to Tolstoy and Dostayevski who wrote about extraordinary personages and the great and important events of Russia and the world, Chekov wrote about common themes, everyday events, and personages from middle-class families.
After this comparison, Checkov’s use of old and traditional themes, that have been seen in other authors’ works like Gogol, with the defference that they are written in the form of short story comedies, is shown and analysed. He not only critisized literature themes, but with a new outlook he showed and analysed them. In this way he expresses his point of view about different ideas written in different literary works.