About Love
Synopsis.
Should one forget the constant questions and conflicts that
come with love? Where is this leading to? Is it right or wrong? ‘…"How love is born," said Alehin,
"why Pelagea does not love somebody more like herself in her spiritual and
external qualities, and why she fell in love with Nikanor…’ albeit the
characters might change, this question has plagued the romance scene ever since
man defined romance and love and gives a fast paced opening to Chekhov’s ‘About
Love’.
Alehin a university graduate goes to work at his father’s
farm and happens to meet the Luganovitchs. He meets Anna Alexyevna and her very
hospitable husband whom he befriends. The Luganovitchs seem happy together but
Alehin and Anna are attracted to one another. They don’t tell each other how
they feel constantly questioning whether it would be right to give up so much
for love. In the end, however, their feelings weight down on them and they
confess their love just as Anna is moving away and a lot of water has flown under
the bridge.
Chekhov seems to concur that in order to savour the delights
of love we need to let go of the convictions, doubts, societal inhibitions to
delight in its wholesomeness and richness.
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