Term Papers on The Chery Orchard

Term Paper Title	The Chery Orchard
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.31

The Chery Orchard

The Chery Orchard was written by a great Russian playwriter, Anton Checkov, late in his short life and was meant to be his masterpiece. It surely became one of his great works. This play is about a turning point of events in Russia when merchants from the middle class were slowly becoming the dominant class. The play is also about the inability of aristocrats to manage rightfully their generation after generation inherited wealth and as a result a complete loss of power over their property. Checkov does not seem to support any of the two classes but he well shows the ideas and approach to the situation of characters of diffirent age and class.
The main conflict of the play arises in the family of aristocrats, Madame Ranevsky and her brother Leonid Gayev. As a result of their financial difficulties the family's chery orchard that is well known in the province and is put for sale to pey the mortgage. Despite all this, Madame Ranevsky continues to waste what's left of her money and does not seem to rush in improving the situation. Yermolai Lopakhin, a merchant whose parents used to be the servants in the house and who grew up around this family, quickly comes up with aplan that would save the family's estate. He proposes to Madame Ranevsky and Gayev to take down what he considers useless chery orchard and rent the land out for summer villas. As easy and efficient the idea seems to Lopakhin, is on the contrary devastating to Madame Ranevsky and her brother. They totally refuse to accept Lopakhin's proposal because of their invaluable significance the chery orchrd possesses in itself. To cut down the chery orchard would me...

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