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                                 Critical analysis of the short story
                                 
                                   “AVENGERS BY ANTON CHEKHOV”


In the short story Avengers there are mainly 3 characters sigaevs, sigaev's wife and the revolver merchant. The story is full of some theme such as we have the theme of infidelity, trust, revenge, shame and pride.

 The starting of the story is given by situation in which sigaves is visiting a revolver shop to purchase a revolver and shoot her wife and kill himself but in the story at starting there is a lack of proper explaining why he went to the shop , may be the author do not want to reveal the incident at the beginning of the story. The reader may get bored if he reveal the incident at first.

Before coming to the story as this is an article of critical analysis,not the summary so concentrating on analysis of the story such that we can see that while reading the short story the author is taking revenge on her wife and her wife lover but at the end of the story we can see that in that city every girl or woman will do the same such that it means there is no respect to their body or to their husband and especially no self respect and they do not even respecting their husbands.

From the story we can see that he himself want to shoot after he kills his wife this may be important as sigaev appears to be looking for sympathy from others when it comes to killing himself. But at the end of the story we can see that he do not want to become a guilty person by killing his wife and even killing himself as he knows that there is no right to take others life such that we cannot give life to others so he is taking a wonderful decision to get divorce with his wife legally and make her ashamed of it.

In the story we can make comments in two ways from the point of society, first of all a society should help a man if he is in some kind of trouble. But in this story we cannot see such type of action from the society and also in the shop we can see that instead of pulling him out of that situation we can see that he is trying to sell his pistol and making him to kill her wife by motivating him and also the shopkeeper is trying to making him purchase the most expensive pistol available in the shop.

Another fact we can notice from the story is that the first half of the story is full of negative things but when it come to the ending of the story we can see that it comes to a positive side also we notice that the story is giving a such wonderful message as repeating a mistake for correcting a mistake is illegal and not good so as a reader we should follow that message through out our life.
                              
                               SHORT FILM OF THE STORY
                
                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvI58k6lFA                                               


                                        



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                              ATHUL KUMAR A          1640303
                                    JESVIN JOSEPH              1640307
                                    GYANESWAR                  1640321
                               ANN CHERIAN GEORGE   1640322
                                        JESSI                              1640326
                                      VARSHA                         1640329
                                 JEEVAN ROIS                     1640351

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