SLA367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Waistcoat, Centrality, Perpetual Student
19 Apr 2020
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Last representatives of a dying estate and dying class. Loss of cherry orchard as symbolic as the killing of the seagull. Characters organized and defined by their relation to this central event. Ranevskya and gaev refuse to listen to warnings of lopakhin before it is too late. Act ii is emerging of all conflicting positions of characters towards cherry orchard / world. Conflicts are revealed as contributing to the inevitability of the sale. Sale of estate plays out against the backdrop of the sounds of a jewish orchestra, hired by the estate to create a party to distract from tragic events. Most modern action of the russian empire at the time. Break with old work and embrace of new. Feels need to call attention to his own social advancement. Yepikhodov the clerk is courting dunyasha, the maid. Servants are transformed compared with what has come before.
