'Cherry Orchard'
■ as
(Continued from pane .?)
lire indeed ludicrous. While at
first the wile of the county neat
Is regarded by them ns a great
tragedy, yet (’oe!i their attitude
toward the trn munition warrant
all the rnincry It has caused?
Cayeff, In the last act, accord
ing to Chekhov’s stage directions,
Bays "gaily": "Really, everything
la alt right now. Before tne cher
ry orchard was sold we were all
worried and upset, but after
wards when the question was fi
nally and Irrevocably aettled we
all calmed down and even felt
cheerful. I am a bank official
now a financier cannon off the
red and say what you like, Lyu
ba, you certainly look much bet
ter than you used to.”
To this his sister replies: "Yes,
my nerves arc much better, that's
true. I’m sleeping well.” This is
quite the opposite reaction peo
ple would have In a tragedy to an
event which forms the dramatic
core of the play.
.WtX’H OF THE misinterpreta
tion of "The Cherry Orchard" as
a tragedy Is caused mainly by
a misunderstanding of the nature
of a con ic character. A "comic”
character is generally expected to
keep the audience In fits of
laughter, but that they do not
always do. No one would deny
that Kalstaff Is essentially a com
ic character, yet his fall from
favor is one of the most moving
Incidents in "Henry IV."
While the characters In “The
Cherry Orchard” arouse much
compassion and sympathy in the
spectator, this should not blind
him to the fact that, excepting
•perhars the seventeen-year-old
Anya, the nature of each charac- '
ter possesses an unmistakable lu
dicrous streak which makes
them essentially comic charac
ters.
TIIK KAIi: of the cherry or
chard docs not form the main
thetre of the play. The instant its
owners appear on the stage it is
quite apparent that they are not
going to save it. The dramatic
interest in the play is then cen
tered on Lopahin, the orchard's
future owner.
Loopuhin is a land specula
tor; what is more, he is "a ten
der-hearted man." But he waves
his hands about and is full of him
self as a successful business man,
not realizing that his success has
killed the finest trait of his char
acter; it has removed the artist
in him. m
He walks through life like a
blind man. keeping to the one
straight line which he hopes will
take him to even greater success.
Nothing can persuade him that
it reirlly leads to failure, the fail
ure of a man who is actually
deeply sensitive to beauty but
whose obsession with worldly suc
cess makes him into a destroyer
of beauty.
IT IS TIIK absence of a con
flict between the artist and the
materialist in Lopahin that makes
him a typically comic figure.
In his relations to the "cry
baby" Varya and his attitude
towards the estate’s owners an
other side of the "comic” ele
ment in Lopahin’s character ap
pears the serf in him. In the fine
drawing room of the Gayeff
country home he can’t help feel
ing that he is just a country yo
kel. He has plenty of money, but
at heart he la still a common
peasant.
FVKN UIH return to the (lay
off estate Is romle, almost slap
stick. Ah he enters, Varya hits
him over the head with a stick.
It ih bh if Varya, who intended
the blow for Flplkhodoff, wanted ,
to remind the new "squire" of
hi« childhood beatings. When<
'■'arya asks If Hhe has hurt him, ’
he replies: “Oh, no, not at all. i
But there’s going to be an enor
mous bump on my head for all
that."
Alt through the play Fiers is
denounced for using an “objec
tionable word.” The word, which
Yasha dislikes primarily because
it fits him so .perfectly, has to be
translated as “ne're-do-well," i
"good for nothing” and even as
“a Job lot."
TJIK WOK It is one which Chek
hov himself often used during the
last ten years of his life “nedo- j
tvopa" best translated perhaps
as “duffer” which is a person j
without any practical abdity or
cupactty, or, generally, a stupid
or foolish person.” In his note- j
book Chekhov gave Varya, "the
perfect fool.” the family name of
Nedotyopina.
Gaycff, Mrs. Ranexskaya and
Yasha are all "duffers" by na- 1
ture. And, too, so is Fiers, whose 1
Inane loyalty to his masters is
perhaps the most farcical, yet
the most touching, element in the
play. "My life has slipped by as
though I hadn’t lived.” he mum
bles at the end of the play, and
those words might well be used j
as his own epitaph. A comic line,
”Oh, you duffer!" are his last
words, addressed to himself.
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