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  • Essay / Kruetzer's Sonata, A Doll's House, Seagull - 618

    Authors of the realism era wrote most of their stories about ordinary, middle-class people. Many authors wanted to write a story that people could relate to and make them feel like they were actually in their story. In "The Kruetzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy, "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov, all the authors talk about the actions and choices that each person has in their life that will dictate the how his life will unfold. to pull. In many ways, it's something that ordinary, middle-class people could relate to, and in doing so, they could hopefully take what they read and apply it to their lives . In “The Kreutzer Sonata,” Leo Tolstoy recounts Pózdnyshev telling a man that he killed his own wife. He described it and as a reader you can understand that it is something that will remain deeply ingrained in his consciousness for the rest of his life. In his youth, Pozdnyshev had numerous sexual relationships with many prostitutes and went to many different brothels. Pozdnyshev was a man who loved sex very much, but these choices and actions...