A conversation with Anita Desai‚ and some notes on her work [Statutory warning: long‚ bifurcated post – some thoughts on Anita Desai’s writing followed by a Q&A. Apologies in case there’s some overlapping between the two elements. I wrote it as a flowing piece - a profile-cum-interview - for Business Standard Weekend but since there isn’t a word-constraint here I prefer to spread it out and play with the format.] Long before the publication of Midnight’s Children brought alive new possibilities
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Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 	The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is a dramatic play set at a cherry orchard in Russia. Some of the characters that help set the dramatic setting of the play are Lyuboff‚ Lopahin‚ and Pishtchik. These characters find life difficult because they fail to understand each other and because they passively submit to their environmental situations without making an effort to rise above them. 	Lyuboff is the owner of the cherry orchard‚ and
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The Cherry Orchard: Critical Analysis The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However‚ Chekhov labeled his play a farce‚ or more of a comedy. Although this play has a very tragic backdrop of Russia’s casualty-ridden involvement in both World Wars and the Communist Revolution‚ the characters and
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Chapter 18 is an in-depth look at how Jesus was sentenced for the crime of claiming to be the Messiah and how Jesus died and was buried. This is again a very morbid chapter but does give insight into what he went through and all the factors involved with his death. Pontius Pilate was essentially the deciding factor in Jesus being convicted and sentenced to a crucifixion. This chapter talks about the severe agony that Jesus went through and how much he had to endure. The last chapter discussed how
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The Lemon Orchard character analysis The Lemon Orchard by La Guma expresses the clashes of the characters personalities throughout the short story. The main characters that are shown within the story are the African man‚ the leader‚ the man who was carrying the lantern‚ and two other men that followed. The leader of the group is presented to be the most dominant compared to the other men. ’He was a big man and wore khaki trousers and laced-up riding boots‚ and an old shooting jacket with leather
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Points for Discussion 1. Analyze the social and economic conditions of the South in the aftermath of the war. Southern planters lost their slaves due to emancipation as well as all of the capital they held in Confederate bonds and currency. Many families had to make money without the help of males. Some even faced starvation and poverty. Great leaders during the war were also revered by communities. Life got worse for slaves who had no possessions. 2. Analyze the political‚ economic‚ and emotional
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1. What were the most important elements of the Columbian exchange? How did this “trade” in plant and animal species shape the future development of both Europe and the Americas? The Columbian exchange was named after Christopher Columbus and not the Country of Columbia. There were four important elements to the Columbian exchange‚ which included diseases‚ animals‚ plants and people. When the Europeans made initial contact with the natives in
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Glory During the American Civil War‚ the Massachusetts army engages Confederate forces in a bloody battle. Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the battle and assumed lost‚ but is found alive by a gravedigger named John Rawlins and sent to a field hospital. Shaw visits his family‚ and is introduced to Frederick Douglass. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel‚ and command of the first all-black regiment the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer army. He accepts the responsibility‚ and asks his
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themselves to the events‚ but‚ this does not mean that these actions are ineffective or unimportant. In fact‚ it is just the opposite. ‘The Cherry Orchard’ by Anton Chekhov and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams are two plays in which the main actions occur offstage‚ but the impact on the audience created by them is immense. In ‘The Cherry Orchard’‚ the offstage actions include Madame Ranevsky’s past where she lost her husband and her son drowned as a child. Madame Ranevsky is of an upper
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using language that is poetic‚ the language used in modernist literature is explicit. Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” is an example of Modern literature because it tosses aside traditional structures and theatrical conventions. The play’s four act structure and the symbolism of the setting both exemplify examples of modernism in literature. The four act structure of “The Cherry Orchard” is an example of modernism because it rejects the traditional five act structure used in romanticism. Chekhov
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