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    Symbolism in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov Mamma! Are you crying, mamma? My dear, good, sweet mamma! Darling, I love you! I bless you! The Cherry orchard is sold; it?s gone; its quite true, it?s quite true. But don?t cry, mamma, you?ve still got life before you, you?ve still got your pure and lovely soul. Come with me, darling, and come away from here. We?ll plant a new garden, still lovelier than this. You will see it and understand, and happiness, deep, tranquil happiness will sink down

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    Anton Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard – Analysis of Comedic Characters Anton Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard is one of his most famous plays, despite the fact that the comedic aspect is often questioned. The Cherry Orchard records the tale of a wealthy Russian family who are faced with the loss of their estate due to bankruptcy, while also facing the reality of losing their beloved cherry orchard. Titled as a “comedy,” it seeks to disclose the family and household dynamics during this brief period.

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    Taste of Cherry 1997 Film

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    Using the Rosenbaum-Ford debate I will be analyzing how Abbas Kiarostami’s 1997 film Taste of Cherry’s epilogue and final scene comment on post-revolutionary Iran using the open image as well as how each has argued on what the scenes have achieved in relation to the rest of the film. The film has been mostly well received by international critics winning a Palme d’OR at Cannes but not so much in Iran as many felt it had problematic images of the society of the time. It follows the protagonist

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    obsession, Mattie, Wharton uses the color to describe her attributes such as her “cherry coloured scarf”(Wharton 15) and “colour of the cherry scarf in her fresh lips and cheeks” (Wharton 28). Wharton emphasizes her “streak of crimson ribbon” (Wharton 44). What these descriptions have in common includes that all represent the temptation and passion that Mattie represents for Ethan. Mattie description includes having “flushed red” (Wharton 45), embarrassment may be the first assumption because woman of Wharton’s

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    distinguishing feature – a bright red sole (O’Reilly, 2013). The colour red is one of the most passionate colours. It has a big influence on marketing decisions. It connotes action, adventure, fire, lust, anger, courage, and rebellion (O’Reilly, 2013). Also, people will gamble and make riskier decisions if surrounded by the colour red. Guess what the dominant colour of Las Vegas is? (O’Reilly, 2013). Due to our experiences, people always associate the colour red as an indicator that we have to stop

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    Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome the color red is associated with one of the main characters, Mattie Silver to illustrate the love between her and her cousin's husband, Ethan Frome. Wharton uses this particular color throughout the story to symbolize the forbidden passion between the two. First, Wharton contrasts the life of Ethan Frome to almost every place Mattie appears in the book by using words such as "fire" in her presence. She brightens Ethan's life and stands out against the dark, cold

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    Skylar Leaf American Gothic Mid-Term The Use of Color in Beloved In Beloved, color is a common and important theme, especially the color red. This is because color can symbolize a variety of different things such as a specific emotion or a memory. Throughout Beloved Morrison uses color to give various meanings to various objects and spaces. The emotional qualities of the characters in Beloved are so strong that Morrison utilizes color as a way to express their feelings. Since the book tells a story

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    Psychology of Color

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    1/23/11 The Psychology of Color The brain receives signals from three different color channels: red, blue, and green. When the brain receives a mix of these signals, we perceive colors that are mixtures of these three primary colors through a process called color addition (Think Quest “Color Psychology”). All colored visible light can be expressed as either mixtures or consistencies of red, blue, or green, which by perception between the eyes and the brain, produces the vast spectrum of color

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    Anton Chekhov, like Henrik Ibsen, is considered a prominent writer on culture and society. Chekhov’s works are noteworthy, in part, because of the lives they portray. In The Cherry Orchard, he writes of a world shackled by a caste system, and he exposes the need for reform. As the title states, the play is set in a cherry orchard. The play revolves around an aristocratic family and other minor characters, but the problem is the family is broke. Chekhov uses the symbolic characters’ memories as a

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    variety of feelings became a focal point in major of dramas’ and a synonym to an absurd. Especially, with the advent of realism into genre, comic aspect evolves into irony and farce, and tragedy seems more devastating (Tragicomedy). In a play The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov demonstrates many themes including childishness, clinging to the past, and hypocrisy of humans. Chekhov depicts the conflict between the necessity for change and the nostalgia for the past, which establish controversial emotions

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