Their interactions slowly lead to the moral and spiritual disintegration of each of them and ultimately led to tragedy. Her son, brooding experimental playwright Konstantin Treplev, adores the ingenue Nina, who in turn is mesmerized by Trigorin. Fading leading lady Irina Arkadina has come to visit her brother Sorin, a retired civil servant in ailing health, with her lover, the successful hack writer Trigorin. Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic conflicts among an eclectic group of characters.

The Warner Bros.-Seven Arts release was filmed at the Europa Studios in Sundbyberg, Stockholms län, just outside central Stockholm. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted and translated from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull. 'While Hamlet is a tragedy about genius.Treplyov's (is) a tragedy of mediocrity' (T.G.The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. However Treplyov is not Hamlet, as he lacks his strength of character and doesn't remove his cloak of indecision and become a man of action as Hamlet does. 'as an ironic commentary on Treplyov's pretensions' and to 'heighten tensions.in Act IV into a variant of Aristotlean peripetia' * The play within a play-Arkadina and Treplyov both quote from Hamlet and the play ends abruptly with people being offended and passions flaring Hamlet motif - Thomas G Winner Chekhov uses the Hamlet theme/motif: * Nina's father objects to her association with Treplyov as Polonius does with Orphelia * Tereplyov has just returned from university as Hamlet had done

* Treplyov's relationship with Arkadina somewhat mirrors that of Hamlet with Gertrude * Identification of characters in The Seagull with those in Hamlet: (New Yorker, Aug 20th 2001) Modernism quote 'The modern theatre is trite and riddled with cliches.what we need are new forms' Treplyov Shakespeare in The Seagull Hamlet. Anonymous critic quote 'Although he was writing before Freud his plays essentially dramatise the unconscious' He talks about how his plays are meant to 'show life the way we experience it in dreams' Which mirrors the work done on dreams and the subconscious by Freud and Jung.

He derides the state of the theatre at the time and strives to create something new. Theme - Modernism Treplyov symbolises the new directions in Art and in particular, theatre, at the turn of the century.

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