Chekhov’s career got more serious in the mid-1880’s. He released a collection of stories and was becoming well known in St. Petersburg(Lyman 899). Chekhov continued releasing successful plays and short stories into the 1900’s. His last play, The Cherry Orchard, is one of his most well known and controversial works(Farrow 1235).

The Cherry Orchard is about a Russian family that passively watches as its estate an

The most interesting aspect of the tragedy/comedy argument is the fact that the tragic or comedic element is really relative to the point of view of the reader. If the reader is against the upper class, then the whole situation of a wealthy, aloof, family losing its estate is quite a funny predicament. However, the reader would be more sympathetic to the situation if they were more pro-aristocratic or could relate to the family more. This is a very interesting point to the play by Chekhov.

Chekhov’s final play The Cherry Orchard is a masterpiece in the way it combines tragedy and comedy into one dialogue. This play succeeded in telling a story while it shined in its most comic moments, and dulled in its tragic mourning. The perception of whether this is a comedy or a tragedy is a battle uselessly fought. The play clearly exhibits both a comic perception as well as a tragic one. The comedy, although more directly comes from the characters themselves, would be half as noticeable without the tragic occurrences of the family and those surrounding them. Just as with comedy, the tragic moments would not seem as tragic without the comic outbursts of the characters and their repeated failing actions. Chekhov intended The Cherry Orchard to

“I’ve been thinking, racking my brains; I’ve got all sorts of remedies, lots of them, which, of course, means I haven’t got one.”

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