What are the main styles of writing used in the play

Parables are often brief narratives explicitly designed to teach a moral or lesson to the reader or audience. One of the more notable aspects of The Caucasian Chalk circle his its narrative structure of being a parable within a parable. The prologue itself functions as a moralistic fable without the assistance of Arkadi’s tale. Simultaneously, Arkadi’s narrative exposes the nuance in the moral embedded within the parable, thereby creating a dialectical connection between the two parables.