What theme is reflected in the following excerpt from anton chekhov's the proposal? lomov: i shall try to be brief. you must know, honoured natalya stepanovna, that i have long, since my childhood, in fact, had the privilege of knowing your family. my late aunt and her husband, from whom, as you know, i inherited my land, always had the greatest respect for your father and your late mother. the lomovs and the chubukovs have always had the most friendly, and i might almost say the most affectionate, regard for each other. and, as you know, my land is a near neighbour of yours. you will remember that my oxen meadows touch your birchwoods. a. family history is important. b. marriage unites two families. c. land determines family prestige. d. parents shape their children’s future. e. family friends make ideal spouses.

I believe the answer is A

A. Family history is important

Explanation:

The major theme of Chekhov's The Proposal is the virus way to deal with marriage that had been regular in nineteenth-century Russia, particularly among the wealthy.

The play, as a satire for this money-driven type of marriage, portrays the two primary characters as too much opulent and urgently needing to marry each other for financial security, clearly in regards to the reality they would not get along well.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).