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    Cherry Orchard

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    1128A Intro to Theatre Plays & Playwrights Form Winter 2014 Name: Nathan Whitfield 1. Title of the play: The Cherry Orchard 2. Author of the play: Chekov 3. Setting: Russia 4. Time: 1890’s 5. Theme: (NOT THE STORY LINE! – what is the play REALLY about?) The theme of the play has been thought to be the struggle over memory. I would have to agree with this idea. Throughout the play you learn of painful memories that the characters have had and how they are desperately trying to forget them

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    Beyond the Orchard

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    Anna Donnelly Mrs. Ybarra English III DC – 7th 10/17/13 Beyond the Orchard Step by step‚ crunch by crunch‚ my bare feet tread over the dried‚ brown pine needles under me. I look to my left and see green‚ as far as I can see. Green everywhere‚ carpeting the ground‚ coating the trees‚ and screening the trail from the persimmon colored sky overhead. I look to my right and see a decaying wooden fence separating the trail from a grove of trees with little green fruits hanging off of the branches

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    The Cherry Orchard

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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

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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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    The Lemon Orchard

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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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    Streetcar and Orchard

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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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    The Cherry Orchard

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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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    Cherry Orchard

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    Symbolism in The Cherry Orchard Throughout The Cherry Orchard‚ inanimate objects are utilized as symbols for the characters. These physical things reveal aspects of the characters’ personalities‚ feelings and principles. Over the course of the play‚ the meaning of the symbols change reflecting the development of the characters they are representing. These symbols include the bookcase‚ the nursery and the cherry orchard as a whole. Act 1: Early in the act‚ the nursery is depicted as a symbol

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    Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov’s‚ tragic play is about a family who lives in Russia who can not do anything to keep their families orchard due to money problems. Although this family has strong emotional connections to their orchard they still will not do any thing that requires work to save it. This is because they have been so use to a life of privilege and doing work is beneath them. This essay will try and explain where this family comes from and why there is such a lack of urgency

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