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How Can Social Circumstances can Affect Literature: Through Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

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According to Wikipedia,  Realism is defined as a literary movement was based on " objective reality ." It focuses on showing everyday activities and life, primarily among the middle or lower class society, without romantic idealization or dramatization.  And Anton Chekhov is regarded as one of the best writers to write these kind of stories. And as I read his two short stories: " The Student " and " The Lady with the Dog ,"  I've come to have some doubts about it's value as a literature.  In fact, most of the literary works we have read so far relied on how effective and beautiful the writer could adapt, rearrange, and twist the story in their own way.  So I wondered what the literary trend of realism could mean to us, or more. (Plus, I wasn't able to feel or be moved by this pair of somewhat dull and dry story. And to be honest, it was the main motivation to write this essay doubting its value or meaning toward us.)  And sea