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We can imagine that Nina represents the masses. Flocking towards what they feel is good because it is what all the other people like. Aha, yes...hence the title of the play, The Seagull. Would Anton Chekhov the soulful writer be satisfied with only that ? To be viewed as an accomplished writer only because others said and thought he was good.
I for one, say no. This very concept must be what the entire play was about.
The flock-like behaviour of the people, the masses, Nina-
to Konstantin Act Two
" you keep saying things somehow crosswise"
in symbols or something-
I mean,look at this this seagull, a symbol if I ever saw one,
but of what, I'm sorry, I've no idea.
I'm not clever enough to make it out. "
(Tom Stoppard, Nina, pg. 30)
Was Chekhov writing his plays to be adored, by the masses ?
Stephen C. Sanders, September 2001
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