... , "The Cherry Orchard" displays the changing social order between the rise of the peasants and the decline landed gentry in Russia in the eighteen century. Chekhov ionises his characters by displaying the gap between what the characters say and what they do and the characters lack of self-awareness, therefore distancing them further from reality. 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 ... ...

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