The play shows a tale of and aristocratic family that loses power as the other characters fall in between. It shows the changes in the class system and debates the nature of progress and freedom that is being shown in Russia. All the characters were sympathetic with the change and with one another. The play lacks a villain but criticizes the faults of others.

The economic environment set in the play appears to be that you can work your way up in the social classes. People are out there to make money and they will if they are devoted to it. An example would be Lopakhin: “I bid ninety thousand above the mortgage, and it was knocked down to me…The cherry orchard is now mine! …I bought the estate where my father and my grandfather were slaves, where they weren’t even allowed in the kitche

The inciting incident in the play was in act 111. It is Lopakhin’s speech recounting the sale of the cherry orchard is the most important scene in the play although, it is not seen, the entire play revolves around this unseen action. “Leonid Andreich had only bid thirty thousand, and straight off Deriganov bid thirty thousand over and above the mortgage. I saw how the land lay, so I got into the fight and bid forty…in other words he kept raising it by five thousand, and I by ten…finally it came to and end…the cherry orchard is now mine!”(Pg.489)

The resolution is the selling of the estate and cutting down on the cherry orchard. The family was on there way back to Paris leaving there past behind. The family had their entire material things taken from them. The most important thing they had taken from them was their status.

The previous action was the fact that Madam Ranvesky was unable to hold onto her money. She clamed that she has “squandered money recklessly, like a madwoman, and married a man who did nothing but amass debts…Then last year, when the villa was sold to pay my debts, I went to Paris, and there he stripped me of everything…” (482) If she was able to conta

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