The importance and the impact of firearms as "structural" agent in the construction of endings in five main drama of Anton Chekhovs

“Ending,” one of the most important elements of a play, can have an important impact on the minds of the audience. There are some different contributing factors to it such as structural elements, characters, writer’s style and socio-historical milieu of the play. In many of Chekhov’s plays there is a “firearm” which leads to the fateful encounter of “the final interplay” between opposing forces; the firearm which is more than a mere object in the play. It can be a means from pleasure hunting to a means for menace, suicide or personal confrontations. To measure the influence of this firearm in Chekhov’s plays—both as a structural element and a socio-historical factor in Russian life—the composition date of his plays were pondered over in this survey, and it turned out that the influence of this traditional object of Russian life in effectuating the denouement has decreased in his later plays to the extent that two such firearms in his play “The Cherry Orchard,” have become the only firearms in all of Chekhov’s plays that don’t fire.