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The play "The Brute" written by Anton Chekhov, where a woman with severe depression tries to stay faithful to her deceased husband. Chekhov is not a traditional writer, he is a writer and influences other contemporary authors with his writing. In his plays he regularly reuses characters, and lacks personality when physically telling his own stories, but it still a very talented writer. His work is known to be symbolic and; somehow each of his plays relate to him in a personal way, or what is going on in his community . The Brute is referred to as a social satire, which is a technique writers use to criticize foolishness and corruption of a person, or society. After learning about Russia in the 1800's, women were said to be romantic creatures of poetry, while men were head of the house.
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He is a unique author, he was a writer between the Golden and Silver ages of Russian literature, and transitioned from a realist to an impressionist. He passed away before any major political or cultural upheavals; he died prior to the Russian revolution. He studied medical, and believed in being loyal to his wife always. He responded to dominant themes from the nineteenth-century, including life, death, crime and marriage. His short stories are what made him very famous, he used his stories to support his parents and siblings. Author Galina Rylkova stated in her writings of Chekhov, "As a pragmatist, Chekhov was not interested in dramatic solutions that, on Russian soil, tend to become final or