Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: universal

The previous reviewer provides a service with the helpful synopsis. My only quibble is that Chekhov's art is truly universal: this story is not simply about the ugly Russian attitudes and institutions of the 19th century. It takes place in a feudal society, but it is very relevant to current-day capitalism. It is the work of a revolutionary, striking at the very foundations of modern society: the empty and self-serving justifications of property and social station, and the blame we direct at those who live in poverty and degradation for their condition. Chekhov seems to want to dissolve the ideological glue, which we have so deeply embraced, that holds us in our social and economic places.