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The Cherry Orchard The Misunderstood Comedy
Essay #4
Eva Knowles
E.H. 151-2 12/17/1999

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 directors 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 who are not bad in
themselves but whose faults possess something ludicrous in them."
The misinterpretation of The Cherry Orchard could be mainly due to
a misunderstanding of the comic character. A "comic" character is
generally supposed to keep an audience in fits of laughter, but this does
not always have to be so. The sympathy and compassion the main character's in The Cherry Orchard bring out in the reader should not blind them to the fact that they are virtually......

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