Review The Bear(Play)

The Bear (play)

 

 

Characters

·         Elena Ivanovna Popova, a landowning little widow, with dimples on her cheeks

·         Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner

·         Luka, Popova's aged footman

 

 

Plot

The play takes place in the living room of an estate in the Russia of the 19th Century.

The widowed land owner Yelena Popova is a woman in her prime, the beauty is not yet faded. Although her husband died a year ago, she still puts on every day morning and could hardly leave the house. Your senile servant Luka cannot understand this behavior. When his "old man" had died, so he gives her to understand that he had mourned a month, and have served. Yelena Popova, but insists they have for the life of any value lost since Nikolayevich death. They have vowed therefore, this morning to her grave not store and see the world no longer, even though they knew full well that they have the deceased often treated her cruelly and had even been unfaithful.

At the door, you hear a high pitched ringing. The mistress of the house will indeed receive none, but the intruder could not care less about it. Come in a crude guy comes in muddy boots, unwashed, uncombed, straw on the vest, and introduced himself as a retired lieutenant of artillery, landlords Gregory Stepanovich Smirnov. The late husband had left to him 1200 rubles guilty, and this sum he would still collect today Jelena deems impossible. Her steward return tomorrow returns from the city, then he get the money. Now, however, is grossly Smirnoff. When he bombed the widow with numerous expletives from the bottom drawer, she refuses to listen to him longer and leaves the salon.

Smirnoff decides to sit for so long to stay here until he had his money. His servant, he calls out to the window, to rest and to set up for the long haul. Luka he orders to bring him a drink. The loud call can Jelena return to the salon. She asked the uninvited guest urgently not to disturb their peace. Moreover, he did not know how a man had to behave to a woman. But this statement does Smirnoff certainly furious. He, who had dueled three times in his life, because women, twelve and nine women he had left him, he should not know about women know?

Now, both screaming at each other, each trying to outdo the other. The dispute culminated in the fact that Smirnoff calls Popova to a duel. As it is received immediately and even overtook two guns left by her husband, Smirnoff is impressed, because then he did not expect. What a woman! She has that certain something! Luka is horrified. He considers it no longer made at home, but will quickly call for help.

Jelena required by the brute that he once in shooting under instance, eventually they've never had a gun in his hand. While this happens, happens in Smirnoff a thorough change of heart. This woman is more and more the object of his desire. He soon forgets why his path has brought here. He now only has eyes for this female creature and making her a love letter. When he takes her in his arms, she resists at first a little, but soon melts away.

Meanwhile Luka has brought help. He armed with an axe, the gardener entered with a rake, the coachman with a pitchfork and men with wooden clubs to the salon. But all they see is a fiercely kissing couple. The servant can only stammer, "God Almighty".

Review

This one-act farce staged Elena Ivanovna Popova, "  a small widow with dimpled cheeks, land owner  , "Gregory Stepanovich Smirnov,"  a young man, a landowner  "and Louka, the old servant of Elena.

Popova, a widow for seven months, was removed from the world and refuse to receive Smirnov, an operator to whom her husband owed ​​money, which is itself bound by its own debts, he claimed. Desperate, but also very angry at this refusal, Smirnov decided to stay at Popova until she pays: “You’re sick for a year, I did not move here for a year” (scene VI).

Popova hidden gold (much longer) character also explosive encounter can then be completed by a duel (Popova from Smith & Wesson seek her late husband) or by marriage (" I fell in love, head first, I ask for your hand. Yes or no?" Scene9).

This piece is usually represented with a marriage proposal , by the same author, which assumes also the theme of love between landowners angry.

Character adding

I choose the Popova character; in my view point, I never felt in the love of Smirnov and rejected his proposal of marriage because I know he is a cheater also He accept his fault and maybe He will left me after marriage. He did not know how to behave with ladies also He want to killed me and in the end I don’t know how it’s mind changed into marriage maybe it’s a trick to use me  in this regard how I marriage with her.

2^nd thing I choose the court option because He threat to killed me and He have not prove that my late husband taken some loaned to her If He have so I’m not responsible to pay its debt because I don’t know about it, maybe my late husband paid the debt during the life in this regard civil court give me some time to prepared the document. During this period surely I’m enabled to pay his debt.