Moscow
Acts I, II, and III all contain Irina's desperate, repeated expression of the desire for "Moscow! Going back to Moscow! Selling this house and everything and going back to Moscow…" (1.7). Especia...
Birds
Chekhov was totally into birds. He raised tame cranes when he lived in Yalta (purdy, huh?) and he wrote a whole play called The Seagull. This guy just couldn't get enough of his flying friends!Bird...
Clocks
Clocks make an appearance twice in the play. In the first act, the clock strikes noon, and Olga is transported back in time: the clock struck the same way on the day their father died. As far as we...