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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

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Image via Wikipedia 1%5CNAEEMA%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"> Ancient landed aristocracy is beautifully symbolized by an orchard of cherry trees in full bloom, which surrounds the crumbling manor house .                                                          ( John Corbin ) The controversy over the interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is surely one of the most intriguing problems Chekhov left for the critics as well as the producers and actors.  The problem takes root from the difference between writer’s and producer ’s concept of production.  Opinions widely diverge over Chekhov’s assertion about the play: “Not drama , but comedy has emerged from me, in places even a farce .”

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

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<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=englishl-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=B003L77GRO&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="padding-top: 5px; width: 131px; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" align="left" frameborder="0"> Image via Wikipedia “In Heart of Darkness one major theme, if not the ruling theme, is that civilization depends for its conquest of the earth on a combination of lies and forgetfulness.”(Eloise Knapp Hay) Conrad’s works, Heart of Darkness in particular, provide a bridge between Victorian values and the ideals of modernism. Like their Victorian predecessors, these novels rely on traditional ideas of heroism, which are nevertheless under constant attack in a changing world and in places far from Engla