In the second Act of the Cherry Orchard I saw a little bit of humor, something I wasn’t looking for. In the midst of the dilemmas that the characters in this play by Anton Chekhov have, we see the author show us some satiric events.
The characters are talking, and suddenly Yepikhodov begins to talk about him and things that concern him, “what it is I really want, wether, strictly speaking, to live or shoot myself” (Pg 338). We see a very rare dilemma for a person to have. It’s an absurd statement, for not to know what you want the most between living or dying is just completely absurd. Also the way that Chekhov introduces this into a normal conversation makes it that much more absurd. “I always carry a revolver on me” (338), as though the thing he just said was absolutely normal, when it obviously is not.
This note by Yepikhodov interrupts the conversation, and Charlotta´s train of thought, “These clever people are all so stupid, there’s no one for me to talk to”(338). Charlotta isn’t part of their discussion now. From a conversation where she was the center, an absurd comment by Yepikhodov has changes completely the idea of the conversation.
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