"The Cherry Orchard" Past papers

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Q.The Cherry Orchard brutally shatters any romantic dreams we may cherish about Love,
Childhood, the Past or Friendship. Do you agree? 2019 supply

Q.Lopakhin's utter lack of feelings is no less appealing than the ignorance and stupidity of the outdated aristocrats .do you agree?                               (2019A)

Q.How far would you agree that The cherry orchard represents conflict between modernity and traditional Russian society ? Elaborate your answer.     (2018A)

Q."Lopakhin, is not itself ridiculous, it is the conflict between a businessman and a
former serf which makes him a comic character. He is a self-made person yet the serf inside him is still pushing him back." What is your opinion? Explain your answer with

arguments.                                                                     2018 supply 

Q.How does chekhov bring comedy in tragic situation in The cherry orchard!How far does he succeed?                                                                             (2017A).

Q.The cherry orchard is about the passing away of the romantic phase and the onset of the modern capitalist tendencies .comment (2016A)

1. "The Cherry Orchard" can be read as a drama tracing the human journey from childhood fantasy to the adult consciousness of harsh reality. Elaborate. (2015)

2. How does the comic element in The Cherry Orchard enhance the tragic impact of the play? (2014)

3. In THE CHERRY ORCHARD, we watch the dreams of childhood dying and ambitions of middle age stirring into action. Comment.(2013)

4. What are the salient features of a naturalistic play? Can THE CHERRY ORCHARD be considered as a naturalistic play?(2012-supp)

5. Is the CHERRY ORCHARD a blend of smiles and tears? Why?(2012)

6. "Again and again his characters speak of trivialities at a time when their thoughts are quite clearly engaged on something quite different" Discuss with reference to THE CHERRY ORCHARD.(2011-SUPP)

. 7. Discuss the dramatic significance of the following.

(i) The opening scene of THE SEA.

(ii) The character of Trofimov. (2011-SUPP)

8. Discuss the dramatic significance of the sub-plot of The Cherry Orchard.(2011)

9. Write a critical note on the following:

(i) The character of Willy in The Sea

(ii) The character of Lyubov in The Cherry Orchard

10.In what sense does The Cherry Orchard present a break with the old Russian theatre?(2010-SUPP)

11. "Lopakhin is not a merchant in the vulgar sense of the word ... There is no need for him to be the typical merchant. He is a tender-hearted man." Do you think that this statement fully explains Lopakhin's character in The Cherry Orchard? (2010)

12. Why has Chekhov's drama been called 'lyrical' and 'internal' as opposed to 'external'? Discuss with reference to his play The Cherry Orchard. (2009)

13. Is the Cherry Orchard a political play? (2008)

14. "It is not what the characters say which matters, it is what they are and what they are doing with their lives". How far do you agree with this assessment of the characters in The Cherry Orchard? (2007)

15. How far do you think Chekhov is successful in presenting the theme of the passing of the old order through the symbol of cherry orchard.(2006)

16. "The Cherry Orchard is a tragedy despite the fact that Chekhov described it as a comedy". How far would you agree? (2005)

17. Discuss The Cherry Orchard as a comedy. (2004)

18. Write a critical note on the following topics:

(i) The character of Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard.

(ii) The character of Loevborg in Hedda Gabler. (2004)
  

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1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages:

1. You must try to understand. Things have changed. It used to be just the gentry and the peasants. But not there is a new sort of visitor ... people who want to come here in the summer. (2004)

2. You can charge each tenant twenty-five roubles a year per hectare per plot --- easily. If you advertise right away I guarantee by the autumn you won't have a single plot left (2005)

3. I trust nobody needs reminding that Orchard and estate come under hammer in two weeks' time ..... Two weeks friends. Try to think of it while you dine.(2008)

4. How can we begin to live in the present if we don't redeem the past .... come to terms with it? There is only one way. By suffering. By work. By extraordinary effort .... by unceasing toil. Try to understand that, Anya. (2009)

5. I tell you every day. Every day I say the same thing over and over again. You must let the cherry orchard and the land under building leases for summer cottages, and you must do it now, as quickly as possible, or the auction will be on top of you! (2010)

6. Oh, no, not at all. But there's going to be an enormous bump in my head for all that.(2010-supp)

7. I suddenly felt sorry for Mama, I just put my hands on her face and held her, I just couldn't let her go. And afterwards she hugged me, and cried.(2011)

8. Oh, for my sins, I've always spent money like a lunatic. I married a man who only knew how to get into debts --- killed himself drinking champagne --- oh, how he drank! I fell in love with someone else - God, what a misfortune! We had an affair.(2011-supp)

9. Oh my lovely innocent childhood! Sleeping here is the nursery, looking out into the orchard, --- every morning waking up to happiness. And it is --- the same as it was, nothing's changed.(2012)

10. All his narrow minded concern with petty illusion, can't she understand that we are above all that? We must be free of the small, the pointless...(2012-supp)

11. There is no turning back ... is it over ... finished and done worth long ago. Stop worrying. And stop deceiving yourself ... for once in your life look at the truth and face it. (2013)

12. Oh my lovely innocent childhood! Sleeping here in the nursery, looking out into the orchard, ... every morning waking up to happiness. And it is ... the same as it was, nothing's changed.(2014)

2015

All this narrow minded concern with petty illusion, can't she understand that we are above all that? We must be free of the small, the pointless…

2016

If we're to start living in the present isn't it abundantly clear that we've first got to redeem our past and make a clean break with it? And we can only redeem it by suffering and getting down to real work for a change.

2017

Little peasant. It's true my father was a peasant, but here am I in my white waistcoat and brown boots, barging in like a bull in a china shop. The only thing is, I am rich.

 

2018

You must try to understand. Things have changed. It used to be just the gentry and the peasants. But not there is a new sort of visitor ... people who want to come here in the summer.

2018supply

the cherry trees covered in blossom and three degrees of frost this morning. I don't think much of our climate, Yermolie Alexeyevich. You can't say it helps.

2019

"I've never met such frivolous people as you before, or anybody so unbusinesslike and peculiar. Here I am telling you in plain language that your estate will be sold, and you don't seem to understand."

2019supply

“Can't she understand that we are above all that? We must be free of the small, the pointless…”

 The cherry orchard truely represents decaying order which cannot sustain itself for long. Comment.

 Evaluate the cherry orchard as a briefing on social and economic depression in the contemporary russia

 Evaluate the cherry orchard as political play

Some Points

 It encircles the Decay of Russian authority.From 1800 to onwards the Aristocratic Russia(Madam Ranvsky) was being weaker and weaker while that the peasants/surfs(Lopakhin) were being progressive.

The grand parents were slave to the master of Orchard but now Lopakhin is able to buy it.

The nineteenth century offered two important developments to Russia which are manifested in the play. In the 1830's, the railroads arrived, an important step in Russia's move into a more international sphere. More importantly, in February of 1861, Russia's vast population of serfs was liberated for good, bringing a long-awaited social change. These two dimensions, social change and the growing importance of the international community, pervade the play and even drive the plot.

TSAR NICHOLAS II had basically brought liberation for the serfs, where from they started their hardworking to get topsy turvy the feudalism and with their declination imbued in their extravagance and incongruously with the emerging social change. 

Serfs maintained their concurrent flow with the prevalent social progression to attain their dominance.