The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard is a play written by Anton Chekhov meant as a comedy but taken as a tragedy. The play shows a certain affinity towards the feeling of the people and the times that best represents what is called realism today. Romanticism let people get away from the restricte...

Money provides a measure for social class. While Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov suggest money as a gateway to social mobility, Pushkin in The Captain's Daughter suggest that money as hope may also be manipulated to prevent it. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard finally illuminates this d...

Response: The Lady with the Dog There are several ways in which you may interpret a story. Marxist interpretations put the emphasis on materialistic concerns and the social classes that make up a society. In the short story "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov, Anna and Dimitri ar...