Cherry Orchard - Talent Student Library

The Cherry Orchard (1903) was written by the writers as an "amusing" work. Despite the comic elements, the piece is still basically tragic and lyrical. The painful disintegration of an existing world, along with humorous overtones and situations, is definitely sad. What was, is no more! Valuable or worthless? Whatever - it's over. The work’s real cherry orchard symbol is also a symbol. It is valid for all human life, aspirations, valid family life, valid for the cessation of any form of life. But most of all, it is valid as a symbol of contemporary Russia. The piece is one of Chekhov’s most played stage works. Perhaps the reason for this is that the real masterpiece, in addition to its concreteness - in the words of László Németh - also has a “myth of the myth. The myth of the Cherry Garden” is the disappearance of an existing world. Chekhov's Russia, like the 19th century, has entered the wells of a profound deep past. Chekhov's writings, on the other hand, which perpetuated the small joys and pains of the people of that time, are about the present, the present. The richness of life shown in them and the peculiar writing atmosphere.