Chekhov | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:30:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Chekhov | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 If You Should Ever Want My Life, Come and Take It https://anitamathias.com/2013/12/11/ever-want-life-come-take/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/12/11/ever-want-life-come-take/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:33:41 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=54925 In Chekhov’s haunting play The Seagull, the beautiful country girl, Nina, who dreams of being an actress, writes to the narcissistic playwright, Trigorian, “If you should ever want my life, come and take it.” He does; oh he does! He comes; he takes it; he casts it away, a poor discarded thing. Nina returns home, broken. She has […]

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