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Introduction
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Hospital is usually a place where to provide medical care with the clean impression;
however, in this work, hospital is described as a place where filthy and immoral
people and situations are all together. This hospital seems like a good location to
spread out sickness instead. Also, this hospital, which has quite similar aspects of
jails, is illustrated as a space that includes disorder but pretends to maintain in a
good order. This hospital is full of inconsistencies, and also represents the era that
takes the form of disorder with the title of order. By setting up the disorder in the
scene of hospital, the image of cleanness, Chekhov emphasizes disorder and chaos of
this time period in Russia.
Ward No. 6, the main setting of this novel, is a miniature of Russia’s society at that
time. The characters that were put behind bars do not try to resist on their
situations, and they rather accept their realities. The principle of nonresistance of
Doctor Andrey Yefimitch, the main character, is a great example of opinions of
everyone in the ward no.6. Also, people, who were confined in this ward, are all
trapped by another person’s will, not by their own will; this shows typical Russian
who are in pressure by the Russian government. Through these characters, Chekhov
wants to tell the readers about irrationality of Russian civilization.
Doctor Andrey Yefimitch appears as an intellectual. At the beginning, he has an
attitude of nonresistance on evil and wickedness of his world and surrounding
environment. Not only the attitude of nonresistance but also the perspective of
nihilism is displayed on Doctor Andrey’s aspects, when Andrey lectures Ivan
Dmitritch as the stoic school during the argument between the two. Andrey is
portrayed as a typical intellectual of that period who is falling into self-contentment.
For 20 years, he was living a life as an idle mind without changing any situations and
environment that might be unsatisfactory or uncomfortable. Nevertheless, Doctor
Andrey finally alters into a stereoscopic figure when he gets two strikes against one

after the meeting with Ivan. Andrey, who used to look away the pain and irrationality
of society, now changes to offer resistance after he is also captured in the ward no.6.
Who is really insane? People who are trapped in the ward no.6 or people who made
those to be trapped? The point of this issue is to decide which one is truly crazy. Of
course it seems not surprising people from ward no.6 are trapped in the ward in this
Russian social absurdities at that time. However, actually majority who chase sinless
people into the mental hospital is real madly insane people. Today in the world,
including in Russia, no one can imagine influential and powerful men dragging into
the mental hospital because they have different thoughts and opinions against the
influential people.
The conclusion of this story that the main character who is a doctor as well gets
imprisoned is an unusual and a shocking ending, and through this end of the plot,
Chekhov gives a message. ….
Chekhov shows the importance of active and aggressive resistance.

CONCLUSION