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Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle that requires every element in a narrative to be irreplaceable, with anything else removed. Variations on the statement include: * "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quotations by Berlin )〕 Here the "gun" is a monologue that Chekhov deemed superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the play. * "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." From Gurlyand's ''Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov'', in ''Teatr i iskusstvo'' 1904, No. 28, 11 July, p. 521.〔In 1889, 24-year-old Ilia Gurliand noted these words down from Chekhov's conversation: "If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act". Donald Rayfield, ''Anton Chekhov: A Life'', New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-8050-5747-1, 203. Ernest. J. Simmons says that Chekhov repeated the point later (which may account for the variations). Ernest J. Simmons, ''Chekhov: A Biography'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962, ISBN 0-226-75805-2, 190.〕 ==See also== * Red herring, drawing attention to a certain element in order to mislead * MacGuffin, a plot motivator with little or no narrative explanation * Foreshadowing, a plot device where what is to come is hinted at, to arouse interest or to guard against disappointment * Occam's razor, a philosophical razor that states that, all things being equal, the explanation with fewest assumptions should be investigated first. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chekhov's gun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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