southern plantation owners who lost everything in the Civil War,
             Madame Ranevsky is incapable of dealing with new realities. She cannot
             adjust to a changing society in which serfs or nobles have access to
             success and are considered equal. Even once she sells the cherry orchard
             Madame Ranevsky cannot admit change. Instead, she continues to same
             extravagant ways that forced her to sell the estate, like hiring expensive
             servants and seeking out her lover despite his former abuse of her. Like
             Lopakhin remains obsessed with business to the point where he undermines
             his own humanity, Madame Ranevsky's refusal to adapt to change and modify
             her behavior makes her sacrifice all that is valuable to her. As she says
             upon leaving the estate, "One last look at the walls, at the windows. My
             dear mother loved to walk around this room," (Chekhov 1963, 117).
             The main characters in Marlow's Heart of Darkness are the
             protagonist and narrator Marlow; the successful manager of an ivory
             production facility in the Congo, Kurtz; Marlow's supervisor, Manager; and,
             Kurtz's companion, Russian. The narrator who reacts to Marlow's tale can
             also be considered a main character. Marlow sails a steamboat but
             discovers a great deal about the hidden continent of Africa. He seeks to
             find Kurtz, the most successful producer of ivory in the Congo. The
             exploitation of the indigenous culture horrifies Marlow, but so too does
             the behavior of Kurtz who has basically repudiated all Europeans and their
             values, becoming a slave to the wildernes
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