“Freedom Reflex” in A. P. Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island.
Journal: Philology & Human
Year: 2025

The purpose of the article is to analyze and describe the motivations for convict escapes in A.P. Chekhov’s book Sakhalin Island (1895) in comparison with I.P. Pavlov’s “freedom reflex”, highlighting the scientific foresight in Chekhov’s observations. The material is Chekhov’s text and I.P. Pavlov’s scientific works. The study employs descriptive, cultural-historical, and comparative-analytical methods. The findings demonstrate that Chekhov presents escapes as a multifactorial phenomenon, linkin