Even with this, he cannot help but criticizing individuals whom he considers to be inexperienced in life in general. "I've never met such frivolous people as you before, or anybody so unbusinesslike and peculiar" (Chekhov 37).
Lopakhin and Ranevskaya could on the surface be perceived as representatives of the ascending capitalist middle class and the degrading aristocracy, but the characters are far more complex than it appears, overcoming the social class paradigm in favor of roundness and contradiction. We sympathize with noble Ranevskaya when she feels that the things she holds close to her heart should matter more than money, yet we also understand the endeavors of capitalist Lopakhin as he delights in uprooting the old ways by all means.
Change is the trial that all the characters of the Cherry Orchard undergo. Lopakhin and Ranevskaya overshadow each other's inner conflicts between past and present, having grown up together in the same space but on opposite conditions. When he talks about Ranevsky, he does so with undiluted affection, yet at some point a note of tension appears along with the memory of how, in childhood, she had condescendingly referred to him as a lesser man. Under these terms, Lopakhin's past is, for him, a source of embarrassment and constant frustration, and an obstacle demanding to be overcome. (Rayfield, 1994) He gets so immersed in the conquest of his past that he ignores the person that he admits to have feelings for, therefore mere conjugal happiness is losing ground...
The family hangs on to their memories of what was through the cherry orchard, the direct opposite of the rest of the realism in this novel. They hang on to the orchard for sentimental reasons, something directly opposed to the reality Chekhov promotes, indicating their love of the natural world, and their inability to fit inside the real world of the present. In conclusion, Chekhov's drama uses reality and naturalistic
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The death that occurs at the end of the Cherry Orchard -- that of the serf-turned-servant, Fiers -- is far more comic than the death of Konstantin, however, and that is why this death occurs onstage rather than out of sight of the audience. Much of the Cherry Orchard is focused on the inability of many of the characters to see beyond the ends of their own noses and immediate
Despite his love of the estate, the future is far better and far more promising than the Russia of the previous era. Another tragic feature of Ranevskaya's character that makes her uniquely 'modern' is that she knows her flaws. She admits that she squanders money, while Oedipus seems unaware of his arrogance until the very end of the play. Chekhov's subtlety as a playwright is that he knows that people
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