Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. She carries a gun and performs parlor tricks such as card tricks, ventriloquism, and illusions; despite her ability to brighten a room, though, Charlotte harbors a great inner sadness.
As a servant whose life is dedicated to the well-being of others, she has no one to talk to about her own problems and must instead focus on keeping everyone else around her happy and comfortable. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Act 1. Barbara apologizes for sticking Act 2. Charlotte , Yasha, Dunyasha, and Ephikhodof are out in the open fields behind the house, at the Charlotte , having finished mending her own gun strap, slings her rifle over her shoulder and leaves, On the other hand, as Barbara points out, he is almost too preoccupied with business to enjoy important aspects of humanity, such as love and friendship.
In some sense, his appetite for business opportunities leads him to betray Madame Ranevsky, his first benefactor, by buying and cutting down her cherry orchard. Lopakhin is a complicated character, and he can be portrayed as a villain, a hero, or something in between the two. The ambiguity in his character is precisely what makes him, and all the other characters in the play, so mesmerizing to the audience. Gayef is Madame Ranevsky's older unmarried brother. He has no particular profession, and apparently lives off of the family fortune.
He and Lopakhin do not get along; there is evidence to suggest that Gayef resents Lopakhin's success, for he treats all of the non-aristocratic characters with derision. It is ironic that Gayef can be snobbish towards other characters, because he himself is a walking disaster. He is constantly running off at the mouth and embarrassing himself. His trademark behavior is an imaginary game of billiards; whenever he has put his foot in his mouth, he acts like he is playing billiards to distract himself and others.
He is humorous, but he is clumsy and ungraceful. He clearly demonstrates that being of the nobility and being a noble person are two mutually separable categories. Although he is a constant social catastrophe, Gayef does demonstrate some ability to adapt that his sister lacks. Although he is never effective, he is always dissuading her spending. Moreover, at the end of the play, he is one character who makes a somewhat positive decision, accepting a modest position in a bank.
In some ways this job is a step down, but it is also a step into reality, something which many of the characters in the play do not attain. Barbara is Madame Ranevsky' oldest daughter. She is somewhat old to still be single, perhaps in her twenties; her family anticipates that she will marry Lopakhin, and although she would like to, Lopakhin never proposes to her.
Barbara virtually runs the estate, a fact visually represented onstage by the massive ring of keys she wears at her waist. She is a controlling person, but she cannot look out for her mother as well as she looks out for the servants. She cries frequently, usually over her mother's spending or Lopakhin's mixed signals. Barbara's controlling practicality is her best and worst quality. On the one hand, her level head keeps the estate running when there is no money to run it with; on the other hand, the responsibility she feels towards the cherry orchard causes her nothing but grief and stress.
Her desire to help and be productive keeps the household running as it drives everyone mad. Barbara's greatest wish is to join a convent or become a pilgrim. At the end of the play she takes on a position as a housekeeper. Anya is Madame Ranevsky's youngest daughter, in her teens, the complete opposite of her fretful, responsible older sister.
Anya is very innocent and appears very much a child. She is usually happy. She is an idealist, like Trophimof, but she is not as philosophical as he. Young Adult, Adult. Role Size. Non Dancer. Analysis Charlotte is the governess for the Ranevsky family and a companion. Sign Up Already a member? Log in to add to your bookmarks! Suggested Monologues PRO only. Upgrade to PRO to unlock this feature. Upgrade to PRO. Suggested Songs PRO only.
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