"Remove everything that has no relevance to the story.
Here the "gun" is a monologue that Chekhov deemed superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the play. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off.Writer Andrea Phillips noted that assigning a single role for every detail makes a story predictable and leaves it "colorless". Hemingway valued inconsequential details, but conceded that readers will inevitably seek symbolism and significance in them. Įrnest Hemingway mocked the principle in his essay "The Art of the Short Story", giving the example of two characters that are introduced and then never mentioned again in his short story " Fifty Grand". The principle is carried out somewhat literally in many of the James Bond films, in which the spy is presented with new gadgets at the beginning of a mission – such as a concealed, wrist-activated dart gun – and typically each device serves a vital role in the story. The unfired rifles tie into the play's theme of lacking or incomplete action. Donald Rayfield noted that Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard, contrary to Chekhov's advice, has two loaded firearms that are not fired. The statement is recorded in letters by Anton Chekhov several times, with some variation it was advice for young playwrights. Elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play. Dramatic principle that every element in a story must be necessaryĬhekhov's gun ( Chekhov's rifle, Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
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