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A review by solette
Five Plays by Anton Chekhov
4.0
"BORKIN [sighing]: Our life-. Man's life is like a bright flower blooming in a meadow. A goat comes along and eats it up. No more flower."
That is to say, it is all meaningless.
"Ivanov" is quite a mixture of sour humor and misery for all.
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"The Seagull" touches existential questioning and crisis - not only the meaning of life but of life as an artist.
Again it is all pretty banal and meaningless in-between moments of self evaluation (or lack thereof).
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A wasted life preoccupies “Uncle Vanya”. Its characters are aged and idle, whose dreams were dashed, and they suffer without even knowing exactly what has been lost.
Melancholic and lethargic, the play is overflowing with despondent bouts of introspection and bitter musings.
If there’s something I fear is a wasted life; something I hate just as much. I dislike this play for what is upsets; and love it also.
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"Don't you see that from every cherry-tree in the orchard, from every leaf and every trunk, men and women are gazing at you? if we're to start living in the present isn't it abundantly clear that we've first got to redeem our past and make a clean break with it?”
In "The Cherry Orchard", the relentless march of time gives voice to those who renounce the past and those who cling futilely to the old aristocracy.
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“Three Sisters” is brimming with unfulfilled dreams – of love and of live. And Moscow, the idealized city where they will achieve true happiness – happiness they had in their past –, is never reached.
Quite depressing actually.
That is to say, it is all meaningless.
"Ivanov" is quite a mixture of sour humor and misery for all.
--
"The Seagull" touches existential questioning and crisis - not only the meaning of life but of life as an artist.
Again it is all pretty banal and meaningless in-between moments of self evaluation (or lack thereof).
--
A wasted life preoccupies “Uncle Vanya”. Its characters are aged and idle, whose dreams were dashed, and they suffer without even knowing exactly what has been lost.
Melancholic and lethargic, the play is overflowing with despondent bouts of introspection and bitter musings.
If there’s something I fear is a wasted life; something I hate just as much. I dislike this play for what is upsets; and love it also.
--
"Don't you see that from every cherry-tree in the orchard, from every leaf and every trunk, men and women are gazing at you? if we're to start living in the present isn't it abundantly clear that we've first got to redeem our past and make a clean break with it?”
In "The Cherry Orchard", the relentless march of time gives voice to those who renounce the past and those who cling futilely to the old aristocracy.
--
“Three Sisters” is brimming with unfulfilled dreams – of love and of live. And Moscow, the idealized city where they will achieve true happiness – happiness they had in their past –, is never reached.
Quite depressing actually.