"The Cherry Orchard"

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This paper discusses how "The Cherry Orchard" is not a mythical play in the standard gothic sense. Instead, the mythic within this play is something that can be understood and observed though the viewing of said work. The Cherry Orchard is haunted. The writer discusses how the play is haunted by ghosts of the past. These ghosts which live within the mansion and indeed within the orchard itself manifest themselves in the characters who are both fighting to hold onto the past and those who are battling to move forward into the future.

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"All of the characters within the work are motivated by the ghosts of the past, but there are two characters which stand out as being moved by them. The first is Ranevsky and the second is Lopahin. Ranevsky is haunted by the need to hold onto the orchard. She lost her son in a drowning at the orchard and this is one of the ghosts which haunts the place. She believes that she must hold onto it because of the value to her family. The place has history for her. But it also haunts her. In her heart she wishes that she were not so bound by the place."

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