ANTON CHEKHOV, “THE CHERRY ORCHARD---LITERATURE

The characters in “The Cherry Orchard” have constant disconnected views and conversations of the future and life. Loparhkin is part of the rising class, whereas most of the other characters in the play like Lyubov, Gayev, are in the rapidly declining class and have no idea how escape from this life calamity.

The first passage opens with Loparkhin proposing his solution to save the cherry orchard, “…if you break up the cherry orchard and the land along the river”, this advice is quickly dismissed by Gayev as “rubbish!” whereas Lyubov “doesn’t quite understand”. Loparhkin doesn’t at all understand what the cherry orchard represents for Gayev and Lyubov, ”cut down the old cherry orchard” he thinks of it as a way to raise money “you’ll have at least twenty-five thousand a year income” whereas they see it as “interesting, ev

Trofimov’s monologue, “Man goes forward, perfecting his skill…In Russia as yet we have very few who do work”, describes how Russia is declining because most Russians do not want to compete with the changing social order and work, they’d much rather escape reality because they cannot comprehend change.

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