Q: Discuss the character of Natalya. OR, Discuss the role of Natalya.
A: Natalya is one of the three characters
in Anton Chekhov’s one - act play ‘The Proposal’.
Natalya Stepanovna, the
25 year old daughter of Chubukov is good looking, well educated and
accomplished in household works. She is a love - sick cat and marriageable
daughter who is in search of her man.
Before proposal, when
Lomov becomes argumentative with Natalya over a land, she suspects that Lomov
has come to talk about Oxen Meadows. So she becomes furious and finally turns
Lomov out.
Later Natalya learns from
her father that Lomov came to beg her hand in marriage and being hysteric she
forces her old father top fetch Lomov.
Later Natalya indulges
her in another dispute with Lomov over the superiority of Squeezer to Guess.
Love - sick yet materialistic, Natalya ultimately unites with Lomov through a
hasty marriage.
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