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The Cherry Orcard (copy)
Title: The Cherry Orcard (copy)
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 732 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Cherry Orcard (copy)
The Cherry Orchard
The Misunderstood Comedy Essay
When the first production of The Cherry Orchard was performed on stage in Moscow, there was a significant difference of opinion between the author and directors. Chekhov strongly faulted the director’s interpretation that the play should be preformed as a tragedy and insisted that what he had written was a comedy. The famous philosopher Aristotle defined a comedy as "an imitation of characters of a lower type …showed first 75 words of 732 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 732 total…the many characters was carefully planned out to show some purpose in the message conveyed in The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov is able to show "the very core of humanity in even the most ridiculous of clowns in the play (Dimmond 1962)." The importance of the use of comedy in the play conveys the importance of comedy in our lives. It shows the reader how the most ridiculous moments and decisions are probably the most important ones.
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