THE
ANNIVERSARY
Anton Chekhov
Long question
Ques 1)
Write a character
sketch of Kirin .
Answer :
Kirin is an elderly book keeper at N-Mutual
Credit Society. He is a senior employee of the bank. He has been engaged to
prepare a report. He has been working on the report for four days. He is work
out. He has high fever and cold. Moreover, he has some domestic problems with
his wife and sister-in-law at home. He is irritated with everything. He feels
that the Chairman of the bank has written a lot of non-sense in the report who
is going to befool the shareholders.
Kirin
is hard-working . He is fully devoted to his work. But he has not good opinion
about women . He hates them for their talkative nature . He is critical of his
boss for inviting women at bank anniversary. According to Kirin, the women will
ruin the whole show. They cause nothing except troubles. He also does not
behave nicely with his wife and sister-in-law at home. Kirin is very short of
temper. He loses his temper with his boss for interfering in his family matters.
He, at one stage, behaves madly to his boss wife. He certainly misbehaves with Mrs. Merchutkina
towards at the end of the play, he is so much
in temper that he chases both women out. He becomes comical in tackling them.
REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
Ques 2)
Kirin : My health is more precious to me than all your
shareholders. I am feverish all over.
Answer :
REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
-:
This
extract has been taken from the play The Anniversary written by Anton Chekhov.
It is a funny and humorous play.
EXPLANATION -:
Shipuchin
is the chairman of N-Mutual Credit Society. The bank is celebrating its 15th
Anniversary. Kirin is an elderly book keeper. Shipuchin tells Kirin that the
deputation of
shareholders may appear any moment and Kirin is wearing old dress and is in bad
temper. He is not feeling well. He is feverish all over. He has been working
for four days without taking rest. He has much load of office work. Even he has
some domestic problems. He coughs and has temperature. He is irritated with
everything. He, is so-much worried about his health than the deputation.
Ques 3)
Kirin : They ill ruin the whole show. They cause nothing but troubles.
OR
Why does Kirin object to ladies presence at the Bank’s Anniversary.
Answer :
REFERENCE TO CONTEXT -:
This extract has been taken from the play The Anniversary written by Anton Chekhav. It is a funny and humorous play.
EXPLANATION -:
Shipuchin is the chairman of N-
Mutual Credit Society Bank. He is going to celebrate its
15th Anniversary. Shipuchin wishes to invite women at
dinner on this occasion. He feels that the women are the life
of any social or commercial function. But Kirin is not in
favour of inviting women at the function. He thinks very
low of them. He dislikes them for their mannerism and
talkative nature. So he tells Shipuchin that they are going
to spoil the whole show. According to him, women cause
nothing but confusing and trouble only.
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