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Anton Chekhov
Paperback | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.92 | 12 Users | 3 Reviews
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| Title | : | Three Plays: The Cherry Orchard / Three Sisters / Ivanov |
| Author | : | Anton Chekhov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | 1953 by Penguin (first published December 31st 1945) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Fiction |
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It took two readings for me to appreciate Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. At first the profusion of characters was confusing and the meaning of the cherry orchard as a symbol was not entirely clear. Only on the second reading—with the benefit of having consulted commentaries—was I able to understand and enjoy this play. If you doubt that interpretation presents challenges, consider that Chekhov intended the play as a comedy, but theatre director Constantin Stanislavski had it performed as a tragedy. As he sat in the audience, Chekhov was not pleased.The cherry orchard symbolizes the old order in Russia before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. By remarkable coincidence, Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation two years later. Both courageous decisions led to unavoidable social and economic upheaval. Chekhov’s play was set in Russia several decades later when the gentry still struggled with the loss of its position in society and the difficult aftermath of a forced-labor economy. Chekhov portrays the gentry as unable to cope with the profoundly changed conditions. The representatives of this class are unrealistic, feckless, and shiftless. By contrast, the former serfs are sensible, practical, and hardworking.
Against this backdrop, the characters are archetypes of various classes of people. Liuba Ranyevskaya, the landowner whose family lived blissfully in the orchard for generations, cannot endure the thought of life without it. Piotr Trofimov, an idealistic eternal student, condemns the repressive social order the orchard represents and looks forward to the future. Yermolai Lopakhin, the diligent and pragmatic peasant whose serf forebears labored in the orchard, cannot believe his good fortune in acquiring it. For him the orchard has absolutely no sentimental value. Understandably, these three characters have entirely different perspectives about what it would mean to chop down the cherry orchard.
For Chekhov himself, the cherry orchard had personal significance. After his own beloved orchard passed on to a new owner, he was horrified to discover it chopped down upon his return from a foreign trip. Perhaps for Chekhov, writing the play was his way of coming to terms with this painful experience.
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The Cherry Orchard ★★★Three Sisters ★★Ivanov ★★★★Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов ) was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write. Yevgenia Morozova, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant."When I think back on my childhood," ChekhovThe Cherry Orchard ★★★Three Sisters ★★Ivanov ★★★★
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