Essays on Charlotta

Introduction

The nature of "The Cherry Orchard", in terms of the genre has always been controversial. Often the play is defined as a "tragicomedy", or an "an ironic tragicomedy." However, it is vital to understand what genre the play is as it defines the code of reading the play and the characters. What does it mean to see elements of tragedy in the play? This would mean to a certain extent agree with the characters’ originality, their sincere and true suffering. However, it is impossible to see any strong trait in characters that are "weak-willed", "aching", "whining", and have "lost ...

The Chery Orchard is a play by Anton Chekhov which was produced in the 1994, immediately after Chekhov’s death. The author is famous for writing short plays and plays in the Moscow Art Theatre. The Orchard presents an aristocratic family in Russia that is forced to give out its ancestral estate (Cherry Orchard) as a compensation for failure to pay mortgage. The family has options to prevent the estate from being taken way, but it does not consider any of the options. All the events that take place until the cutting down of the orchard makes an interesting play. Chekhov ...

The virtual exhibit dedicated to the life of African-American women I found was on the website blackiowa.org and was titled ‘Unsung Heroines’. Even though I thought that I would find the exhibit in a matter of seconds after typing a few simple key word searches on Google, this turned out to not be the case. Finding a good virtual exhibit turned out to be quite a task and took up half an hour of my time and this is quite a long period considering that Google finds you millions of searches in just a matter of seconds. The exhibit I found is quite interesting and ...