Jared
Times change and ultimately the worst people you know are going to thrive from it.
I really liked the difference between Yasha and Petya, both extremely irritating and purposeless men, yet Petya has a reason to keep going and Yasha's already given up. Petya seems afraid of the love he feels for Anya, while Yasha's love for Dunyasha is unreal and unrequited. He sees her as a workplace fling and disregards the love because he sees himself as above her, whereas Petya's love for Anya is genuine, he just believes that he's too far gone in a loveless world.
Varya's the goat. She's so easily ragebaited and Petya knows exactly how to push her buttons, I almost wanted to see the two of them fall in love. But ragebaiter x ragebaitee is not a common ship dynamic, especially in early 1900s Russian theatre.
I had to read this for a class. My professor absolutely adores Chekhov and I can see why. We had to read The Lady with the Dog earlier, and that was a truly beautiful short story. It made me cry by the end of it. That's probably the best short story I had to read for this class. Either that or Hills Like White Elephants, which also made me cry.
The Cherry Orchard didn't make me cry, but it's a comedy so that's expected. It didn't make me laugh either, but I'm sure these jokes would work a lot better if I saw them performed in a theatrical setting. I absolutely loved the characters, though. Especially Firs, I bet he would have had me hooting and hollering if I saw this live. That's a funny character. And his death is really funny too, I should really seek out a production of this play, because ending it with such a stupid death scene is comedy gold.
Times change and ultimately the worst people you know are going to thrive from it.
I really liked the difference between Yasha and Petya, both extremely irritating and purposeless men, yet Petya has a reason to keep going and Yasha's already given up. Petya seems afraid of the love he feels for Anya, while Yasha's love for Dunyasha is unreal and unrequited. He sees her as a workplace fling and disregards the love because he sees himself as above her, whereas Petya's love for Anya is genuine, he just believes that he's too far gone in a loveless world.
Varya's the goat. She's so easily ragebaited and Petya knows exactly how to push her buttons, I almost wanted to see the two of them fall in love. But ragebaiter x ragebaitee is not a common ship dynamic, especially in early 1900s Russian theatre.
I had to read this for a class. My professor absolutely adores Chekhov and I can see why. We had to read The Lady with the Dog earlier, and that was a truly beautiful short story. It made me cry by the end of it. That's probably the best short story I had to read for this class. Either that or Hills Like White Elephants, which also made me cry.
The Cherry Orchard didn't make me cry, but it's a comedy so that's expected. It didn't make me laugh either, but I'm sure these jokes would work a lot better if I saw them performed in a theatrical setting. I absolutely loved the characters, though. Especially Firs, I bet he would have had me hooting and hollering if I saw this live. That's a funny character. And his death is really funny too, I should really seek out a production of this play, because ending it with such a stupid death scene is comedy gold.