Clayton Brooks (CowboyDooWop77)

Long story short, I spend my entire senior year of college essentially reading and deciphering this one single play. And believe me when I say I never tired of it. There is enough in here to write countless essays and stage infinite interpretations of it. The story is so deceptively simple and truly timeless. It is most harrowing when one realizes that Russia (for some reason a formidable enemy in the American conscious) can be the setting for issues and struggles that we continue to face in 2020. The play is hardly a tragedy even if the protagonist commits suicide in the end. It is rather a biting satire for the dreams of young people. Konstantin represents the ironic curse of choosing to follow one's own dreams; a divine death is his reward for choosing to be himself and not what his mother expects of him. Each character in the play interestingly resonates with any type of person. No matter who you are or what your life story is, The Seagull has answers. Because the problems of the past are still the problems of today, people in the past just figured it out.