Literature Flashcards
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Friends with James Lovelock and created the Gaia hypothesis
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William Golding
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Front: The protagonist lives in the Barony of Thunder-ten-tronckh, instructed by the philosopher Pangloss who teaches that we live in “the best of all possible worlds.”
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Candide
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Front: The Baron’s daughter Cunégonde catches Pangloss having sex with Paquette, her mother’s chambermaid, and approaches the protagonist with similar intentions.
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Candide
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Front: The Baron catches the protagonist and Cunégonde kissing, furiously expelling him from Thunder-ten-tronckh.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist wanders and is tricked by two Bulgarian soldiers into joining their army, performing well in exercises but fleeing cowardly in battle.
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Candide
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Front: In Holland, a Protestant orator’s wife dumps a chamber pot on the protagonist’s head for refusing to say the Pope is the Antichrist.
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Candide
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Front: An altruistic Anabaptist named Jacques takes in the protagonist and later helps cure Pangloss, who has contracted syphilis from Paquette.
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Candide
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Front: Jacques dies in a shipwreck near Lisbon, while the protagonist and Pangloss survive only to face a terrible earthquake.
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Candide
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Front: The Inquisition arrests the protagonist and Pangloss, publicly whipping the former and hanging the latter.
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Candide
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Front: An old woman leads the protagonist to Cunégonde, who is being sexually shared by the Grand Inquisitor and a Jewish merchant named Don Issachar.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist kills both Don Issachar and the Grand Inquisitor when they enter the house.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist flees to Buenos Aires with Cunégonde and the old woman, where he’s put in charge of a military company against rebelling Jesuits in Paraguay.
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Candide
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Front: Governor Don Fernando desires Cunégonde as his mistress, prompting the protagonist to flee with his valet Cacambo, a resourceful and intelligent mixed-race native.
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Candide
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Front: Cacambo, with his diverse background as a singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey, proves invaluable in helping the protagonist escape various dangers.
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Candide
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Front: In the Kingdom of the Jesuits, the protagonist discovers the Reverend Commandant is Cunégonde’s brother, the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh’s son.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist stabs the Baron’s son in self-defense after announcing his intention to marry Cunégonde.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist and Cacambo are captured by the savage Oreillons, who prepare to eat them thinking they’re Jesuits.
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Candide
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Front: Cacambo’s charisma saves them from the Oreillons, and they wander until accidentally reaching El Dorado, a utopian society.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist and Cacambo leave El Dorado with riches and red sheep, given by the King.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist sends Cacambo to search for Cunégonde, promising to meet in Venice.
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Candide
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Front: In Suriname, the ship owner Mynheer Vanderdendur tricks the protagonist and steals his flock of sheep.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist travels to Bordeaux with Martin, a pessimistic scholar, witnessing a battle where one of his red sheep survives.
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Candide
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Front: In Paris, the Abbé of Perigord and Marchioness of Parolignac trick and rob the protagonist.
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Candide
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Front: The protagonist finds Paquette as a prostitute in Venice, in the arms of Friar Giroflée.
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Candide
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Front: At a dinner with six deposed kings, the protagonist reunites with Cacambo, who informs him Cunégonde is a servant in Turkey.
Candide
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Front: The protagonist frees Pangloss and the Baron's son from slavery in Turkey.
Candide
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Front: The protagonist marries the now-ugly Cunégonde, despite the Baron's son's opposition.
Candide
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Front: All characters, including Pangloss, Cunégonde, the old woman, and Cacambo, settle on a small farm, complaining about misfortunes and discussing philosophy endlessly.
Candide
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Front: Inspired by a content Turkish farmer, the protagonist concludes that "we must cultivate our garden."
Candide
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Front: The old woman, born the daughter of a Pope, experienced death of a fiancé, rape by pirates, slavery, and cannibalism in wartime.
Candide
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Front: Cacambo's diverse background includes being a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman, and having been a singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
Candide
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A Southern belle arrives in New Orleans, taking a streetcar named Desire and then one called Cemeteries to reach Elysian Fields
A Streetcar Named Desire
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This fading Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, is from Laurel, Mississippi, dressed all in white and described as delicate and moth-like
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Blanche tells her sister Stella that Belle Reve, the family plantation, has been lost, and she has been given a leave of absence from her teaching position due to her nerves
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Stella's husband, a brutish and violent man named Stanley Kowalski, exudes raw, animal sexuality, contrasting with Blanche's refined airs
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Stella's life is defined by her role as Stanley's wife; their relationship is primarily based on sexual chemistry, emphasized by Stella's pregnancy
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Stanley rummages through Blanche's trunk, suspecting she cheated Stella out of the inheritance from Belle Reve
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Blanche reveals that Belle Reve was lost due to a foreclosed mortgage, showing Stanley the bank papers
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At a poker night, Stanley's friend Mitch, a gentle and sensitive man, catches Blanche's eye, and she maneuvers herself in the light to be caught half-dressed in silhouette
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Blanche hangs a paper lantern over a bare bulb, which angers Stanley for interrupting the poker game
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Stanley erupts in violence, tossing a radio out the window and hitting Stella when she intervenes
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The other men douse Stanley in the shower to sober him up, and he is remorseful, bellowing 'STELL-LAHHHHH!' until Stella returns to him
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The morning after Stanley's outburst, Stella is calm and radiant, admitting she is 'thrilled' by Stanley's aggression
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Blanche suggests contacting Shep Huntleigh, a wealthy Dallas acquaintance, to help them escape, criticizing Stanley as being coarse and sub-human
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Stanley overhears Blanche criticizing him and begins to uncover repugnant details about her past
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Blanche flirts with and kisses a Young Man who comes to collect money for the paper before Mitch arrives for their date
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Blanche tells Mitch about her tragic love life: at sixteen, she married an effeminate young man who turned out to be homosexual and committed suicide
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Stanley tells Stella about Blanche's sordid history in Laurel, including her promiscuity and being fired for an affair with a seventeen-year-old student
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Stanley informs Stella that he’s bought Blanche a one-way bus ticket back to Mississippi
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Blanche tries to telephone Mitch but doesn’t get through; Stanley presents her with the bus ticket, causing her to rush out of the room
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Stella goes into labor as Blanche reacts to the bus ticket and the loss of Mitch
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Mitch confronts Blanche, who admits that Stanley's stories are true and that after her husband's suicide, she sought solace in the comfort of strangers
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A Mexican Woman comes to the door and offers 'Flores para los muertos' as Mitch confronts Blanche
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Mitch tries to have sex with Blanche but stops himself, and Blanche cries 'Fire! Fire!'
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Blanche has been drinking steadily and puts on an absurd white evening gown and a rhinestone tiara
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Blanche makes up a story about Shep Huntleigh sending her a telegram from Dallas and Mitch coming back on his knees with roses
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Stanley shatters Blanche's stories and advances on her, declaring, 'We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!'
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Stanley overpowers Blanche and rapes her offstage
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Weeks later, Stella and Eunice the neighbor are packing Blanche’s bags for her to go to a mental asylum, while the men play poker
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Blanche believes Shep Huntleigh is codming to take her away, refusing to believe she's being committed
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The Doctor and Matron from the asylum arrive, and Stanley yanks the paper lantern off the light bulb
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Blanche, grasping at her final shreds of dignity, says, 'Whoever you are––I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'
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Stella, holding her baby, breaks down in 'luxurious sobbing,' and Stanley comforts her with loving caresses
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Varsouviana Polka
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A blue piano appears frequently in the stage directions of this play
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Eunice buys unwashed grapes
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Hotel Flamingo, Moon Lake Casino and the song Paper Moon AND smashing light bulbs on wedding night, Allan Gray
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Napoleonic Code
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Tom Wingfield, the narrator, is both a character in this memory play
The Glass Menagerie
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The Wingfield apartment, dimly lit, is in a lower-class tenement building in St. Louis, accessed by a fire escape
The Glass Menagerie
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The play takes place in St. Louis in the nineteen-thirties, where Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother and sister
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Tom and Laura's father abandoned the family many years ago, leaving only a postcard reading “Hello––Goodbye!”
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Amanda Wingfield nags Tom about his table manners and smoking habits
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Amanda regales Tom and Laura with threadbare memories of her youth as a Southern belle in Blue Mountain
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Amanda is disappointed when Laura says that she will never receive any gentleman callers
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Amanda discovers Laura dropped out of business college due to debilitating social anxiety and spends her days wandering and caring for her glass menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda decides Laura’s best hope is to find a suitable man to marry after Laura shares she had a crush on Jim in high school
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda raises extra money by selling subscriptions for a women’s glamour magazine
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Tom, stifled in his job and family life, writes poetry at the warehouse and escapes the apartment through movies, drinking, and literature
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Tom and Amanda argue bitterly, with Tom accusing her of not respecting his privacy and Amanda claiming he must sacrifice for the family
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During a heated argument, precipitated by Tom’s manuscripts pouring out of the typewriter, Tom accidentally shatters some of Laura’s glass animals
The Glass Menagerie
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Tom tells Laura about a magic trick involving a man who escapes from a nailed-up coffin, seeing it as symbolic of his life
The Glass Menagerie
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Due to Laura’s pleading, Tom and Amanda eventually reconcile and unite in their concern for Laura
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Amanda implores Tom not to abandon the family as her husband did and asks him to find a potential suitor for Laura at the warehouse
The Glass Menagerie
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Tom brings home his colleague Jim O’Connor, whom he knew in high school and who calls Tom “Shakespeare”
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda is overjoyed and throws herself into a whirlwind of preparation for Jim's visit
The Glass Menagerie
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When Laura sees Jim, whom she had a crush on, she is terrified; she answers the door but quickly dashes away
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda emerges in a gaudy, frilly dress from her youth and affects a thick Southern accent, as though she is the one receiving the gentleman caller
The Glass Menagerie
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Laura refuses to join the table, instead lying on the sofa in the living room during Jim's visit
The Glass Menagerie
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The lights in the apartment go out because Tom has not paid the electricity bill, having instead paid his dues to join the merchant marines
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda lights candles, and Jim joins Laura by candlelight in the living room, slowly warming her up with encouraging company
The Glass Menagerie
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Jim tells Laura that she must overcome her inferiority complex through confidence and reminds her that he had nicknamed her “Blue Roses” in high school
The Glass Menagerie
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Laura shows Jim her glass collection, letting him hold her favorite, the glass unicorn
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Jim and Laura begin to dance to a waltz, but Jim knocks over the unicorn, breaking off its horn
The Glass Menagerie
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Jim kisses Laura but immediately draws back, apologizing and explaining that he has a fiancée who is Irish and is named Betty
The Glass Menagerie
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Laura gives Jim the broken glass unicorn as a souvenir of their evening
The Glass Menagerie
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Amanda re-enters the living room and learns about Jim’s fiancée, accusing Tom of playing a trick on them
The Glass Menagerie
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Tom explains that he got fired from his job not long after Jim’s visit and that he left his mother and sister
The Glass Menagerie
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Tom explains that no matter how far he goes, he cannot leave his emotional ties behind, the play is his final act of catharsis to purge himself of the memories of his family
The Glass Menagerie
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The play opens at the Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico, where the proprietress Maxine Faulk greets her old friend, Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon
The Night of the Iguana
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Shannon, a tour director, arrives distressed with a group of Baptist music teachers, having had an affair with one of them
The Night of the Iguana
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Hannah Jelkes, an artist, arrives at the hotel with her elderly grandfather Nonno, a minor poet
The Night of the Iguana
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Shannon helps Hannah and Nonno get rooms at the hotel, despite Maxine's jealousy
The Night of the Iguana
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Shannon has a breakdown and is tied up in a hammock to prevent him from harming himself
The Night of the Iguana
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Hannah comforts Shannon and shares her own experiences of near-breakdown
The Night of the Iguana
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An iguana is tied up under the veranda, which Shannon eventually frees at Hannah's request
The Night of the Iguana
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Nonno completes his final poem before passing away
The Night of the Iguana
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Shannon agrees to stay with Maxine and help run the hotel
The Night of the Iguana
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The play explores themes of sexual tension, mental instability, and human connection
The Night of the Iguana
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The wealthy Pollitt family gathers to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday, unaware he's dying of cancer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Maggie, the 'cat', tries to secure her and Brick's future in the family estate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Brick, the alcoholic son, drinks to escape his wife's desires and emotional pain
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy, the dying patriarch, must decide which son will inherit his estate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Gooper and Mae, with their 'no-neck monster' children, compete for the inheritance
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Maggie locks the bedroom door and confronts Brick about their lack of intimacy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Mama mistakenly blames Maggie for Brick's drinking problem
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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The play explores themes of mendacity, sexual tension, and family dysfunction
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Brick's relationship with his deceased friend Skipper is a source of tension (friend did suicide after confession to Brick)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Maggie lies about being pregnant to secure her position in the family
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Candles blown out by Tom's sister Laura
The Glass Menagerie
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A picture of a young man in a "doughboy’s World War I cap" hangs on a wall throughout this play
The Glass Menagerie
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At the beginning of this play, a solitary man declares, "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" and calls himself "the opposite of a stage magician" and calls his father the "fifth character"
The Glass Menagerie
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Laura attends Rubicam Business College
The Glass Menagerie
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The Catastrophe of Success was written about this play by its author
The Glass Menagerie
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Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman, returns home to Brooklyn early, having failed to sell anything and lost his salary
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's son, Biff, who has been working on farms and ranches for over a decade, returns home seeking a new direction
Death of a Salesman
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This son reveals to his brother Happy that he feels more fulfilled by outdoor work than by his previous attempts to work in an office
Death of a Salesman
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The family contrasts themselves with their neighbor, Charley, a successful businessman, and his son, Bernard, a serious student
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's wife, Linda, reassures him as he admits his commission was small and he is full of self-doubt
Death of a Salesman
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Even as Linda reassures him, he hears the laughter of his mistress in Boston
Death of a Salesman
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Charley offers the protagonist a job, but he refuses out of pride, despite borrowing money every week
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist compares himself to his brother Ben, who made a diamond fortune, and their father, who abandoned them
Death of a Salesman
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Linda reveals that the protagonist has tried to commit suicide, both in a car crash and by inhaling gas
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's older son agrees to stay home and try to borrow money to start a sporting goods business with Happy
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist gives conflicting advice about how to ask for the loan from a former employer, Bill Oliver
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist asks his boss, Howard Wagner, for a job in the New York office but is refused and eventually suspended
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist encounters Bernard, now a successful lawyer, and reflects on his own son's greatest achievement
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's son confesses to stealing a pen from Bill Oliver after being given the cold shoulder
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist learns he has been fired, so his son had better give him some good news to bring home
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist recalls the end of his son's high school career when his son found him in a hotel room with his mistress
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's son became disillusioned about his father and abandoned his dreams for college and following in his footsteps
Death of a Salesman
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The sons leave the restaurant with two call girls while their father is lost in his memories
Death of a Salesman
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Linda is furious at the sons for abandoning their father at the restaurant
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist tries to plant seeds in the middle of the night and converses with the ghost of Ben about a plan to leave his family with life insurance
Death of a Salesman
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The protagonist's older son announces that neither he nor his father will ever be great men, and that his father should accept this and give up his distorted version of the American Dream
Death of a Salesman
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Charley elegizes the protagonist as a man who, by necessity, had nothing to trade on but his dreams
Death of a Salesman
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Linda says goodbye to the protagonist, noting the house is paid off but there will be nobody to live in it
Death of a Salesman
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A Zulu pastor from Ndotsheni, Stephen Kumalo, receives a letter from Rev. Theophilus Msimangu about his sister Gertrude's illness in Johannesburg
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist decides to travel to Johannesburg to help Gertrude and search for his son Absalom, who hasn't been heard from in months
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist journeys to Johannesburg for the first time, overwhelmed by the city's size and complexity
Cry, the Beloved Country
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With Msimangu's help, the protagonist finds Gertrude working as a prostitute and brewing illegal liquor; she agrees to return to Ndotsheni with her young son
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The protagonist's brother, John Kumalo, now a politician in Johannesburg, provides information about Absalom's last known whereabouts
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist learns that Absalom's pregnant girlfriend has been missing for days
Cry, the Beloved Country
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A headline reports the murder of Arthur Jarvis, a white engineer and activist for racial justice, during a home invasion
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist discovers the police are searching for Absalom in connection with Arthur Jarvis's murder
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist visits Absalom in jail, frustrated by his son's inability to explain his actions; Father Vincent advises him to seek solace in prayer
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist offers to take Absalom's pregnant girlfriend back to Ndotsheni with him
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Father Vincent brings a lawyer, Mr. Carmichael, to meet the protagonist, and Carmichael agrees to take on Absalom's case pro deo (for free)
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James Jarvis and his wife, living on a farm near Ndotsheni, receive news of their son Arthur's murder and travel to Johannesburg
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James struggles with the fact that he never really knew his son Arthur, and is struck by Arthur's activism and sympathies with the native population
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Through Arthur's writings, James learns that his son believed the native people's way of life had been destroyed by white men, leading to violence and fear
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Absalom's trial begins, and his accomplices claim they were not at the scene of the murder
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Absalom admits to being present and firing the fatal shot, but claims he never intended to kill Arthur
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The protagonist accidentally encounters James Jarvis, and reveals it was his son who killed Arthur
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James, influenced by his son's writings, assures the protagonist he feels no anger toward him
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Absalom is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death; his accomplices are found innocent
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Absalom marries his pregnant girlfriend in a jailhouse ceremony before the protagonist prepares to return home
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The protagonist, the Jarvis family, Gertrude and her child, and Absalom's wife all return to Ndotsheni
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Arthur's young son visits James and becomes aware of the poverty in the protagonist's community
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James, inspired by his late son's ideals, provides milk for the children and helps the community build a dam and improve agriculture
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James's wife dies, and the protagonist sends a note of condolence
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James responds, thanking the protagonist, and informs him of plans to build a new church in the community
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On the eve of Absalom's execution, the protagonist visits James and then retreats to the mountains to pray and reflect
Cry, the Beloved Country
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The protagonist remains in the mountains until dawn, when he knows his son has been executed
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The novel explores themes of racial injustice, the breakdown of tribal culture, and the power of compassion and understanding to bridge divides
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Set against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, the story intertwines personal tragedy with broader social and political issues
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The title 'Cry, the Beloved Country' reflects the author's lament for South Africa, torn apart by racial injustice and fear
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One character in this novel recruits Hlabeni to drive him and the protagonist from Alexandria during a bus boycott arranged by Dubula
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Character obsessed with Abraham Lincoln
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John Kumalo's son Matthew is part of the trial including Absalom and Johannes Purfuri
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One man in this novel is killed before he could finish his treatise titled “The Truth About Native Crime”.
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Protagonist watches the sunset in the mountains until dawn waiting for his son to die
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Another character in this novel donates milk and hires an agricultural expert named Napoleon Letsitsi after paying a visit to the Harrisons.
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Protagonist uses the exclamation "Tixo" after entering the city
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One man in this novel is killed before he could finish his treatise titled “The Truth About Native Crime”
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John Harrison/Mr. Harrison
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In this novel, an outsider starts putting sticks with little flags in the ground, and the protagonist is taken to a colony of blind people who weave baskets (colony is called Ezenzulai)
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The protagonist of this novel goes to the employer of Sibeko’s daughter during his search for her
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This novel’s protagonist has some of his savings stolen by a young man who claims to be buying him a bus ticket
Cry, the Beloved Country
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One chapter of this novel praises the oration of Father Beresford and Ernest Oppenheimer
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A psychologist, Dr. John Ray Jr., Ph.D., introduces the novel as a case study in abnormal psychology, written by a murderer and sexual pervert who calls himself Humbert Humbert
Lolita
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John Ray Jr. explains that the manuscript, titled 'Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,' was received from the author's lawyer
Lolita
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The author, Humbert Humbert, died in jail of coronary thrombosis while awaiting trial, according to John Ray Jr.
Lolita
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The protagonist meets his childhood love, a young girl named Annabel Leigh(dies of typhus in Corfu), at the Hotel Mirana on the French Riviera
Lolita
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As a young adult, the protagonist moves to Paris and London, repressing his urges for young girls he calls 'nymphets'
Lolita
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The protagonist marries a woman named Valeria, who leaves him for a Russian taxi driver named Maximovich after four years
Lolita
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The protagonist immigrates to New York, works at a university, and spends time in sanatoriums due to mental health issues
Lolita
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The protagonist becomes a lodger at the house of a widow, Charlotte Haze, where he meets her 12-year-old daughter Dolores
Lolita
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Charlotte sends Dolores to Camp Q and marries the protagonist, who considers drowning her at Hourglass Lake
Lolita
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Charlotte discovers the protagonist's diary and is accidentally killed by a car while running out to expose him
Lolita
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A lawyer named Jack Windmuller handles the complicated case of the Haze estate after Charlotte's death
Lolita
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The protagonist takes Dolores to The Enchanted Hunters motel, where she initiates sex with him the next morning
Lolita
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The protagonist and Dolores spend two years traveling across the United States, staying in motels and visiting tourist attractions
Lolita
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They settle in Beardsley, where Dolores attends school and participates in a play by a playwright named Clare Quilty
Lolita
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A dentist in Ramsdale, Ivor Quilty, is Clare Quilty's uncle whom he visited frequently
Lolita
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In May 1949, the protagonist and Dolores set out on another cross-country trip, pursued by a mysterious man in a red car
Lolita
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Dolores escapes from the protagonist with her 'uncle' while staying at a hospital in Elphinstone
Lolita
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The protagonist spends years searching for Dolores, eventually receiving a letter from her in September 1952
Lolita
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The protagonist visits a pregnant, married Dolores, who reveals that Clare Quilty was the man she escaped with
Lolita
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The protagonist tracks down Clare Quilty at Pavor Manor and kills him in a prolonged, theatrical struggle
Lolita
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The protagonist is arrested after driving on the wrong side of the highway following Quilty's murder
Lolita
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A woman from Ramsdale, Mrs. Chatfield, whose daughter attended the same camp as Dolores, is encountered by the protagonist near the end of the novel
Lolita
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John Ray Jr. notes that the manuscript will become a favorite in psychiatric circles and encourages parents to raise better children
Lolita
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Ray defends the manuscript against anticipated objections, arguing that it serves an artistic purpose despite its controversial content
Lolita
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342 repeatedly appears
Lolita
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This novel’s foreword includes the death of Mrs. Schiller
Lolita
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The lines “Because you took advantage of a sinner” open a parody of (*) Ash Wednesday in this book, which a character makes another read before shooting him.
Lolita
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in a poem from this book that concludes “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Lolita
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That narrator describes the death of his “very photogenic mother” with the phrase “(picnic, lightning).”
Lolita
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Valeria leaves the protagonist for the cab driver Maximovich
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This novel's narrator ascribes happy accidents, such as a payphone refunding all his coins at the end of a difficult call, to a cosmic force he calls "McFate."
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On a frosty morning in May, the aristocratic Madame Ranevsky, her daughter Anya, and their servants Yasha and Charlotte return to their family’s ancestral estate from Paris.
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A coterie of friends, family members, and neighbors anxiously await the protagonist's arrival, among them her brother Gayef, her eldest daughter Barbara, and her neighbors Lopakhin and Pishtchik.
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The protagonist is thrilled to be home after five years abroad but is greeted by the sad news that unless she pays off the interest on the estate by the end of August, the property—and the cherry orchard—will be auctioned off.
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Lopakhin urges the protagonist to chop down the cherry orchard, divide the land, and rent parcels to upwardly mobile members of the emerging middle class, or “villa residents,” but the protagonist refuses.
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The protagonist lends money she does not have to Pishtchik and tumbles back into memories of her painful exit five years ago, spurred by the death of her youngest child, Grisha who drowned at only seven years old.
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As the house comes back to life, the servants Dunyasha and Ephikhodof navigate an awkward romance.
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Elderly butler Firs, who mumbles incoherently, rejoices in his mistress’s return.
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Gayef schemes of ways to secure money through borrowing and back channels.
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Barbara wonders whether she will ever get a proposal from Lopakhin, who has been rumored to be considering asking for her hand in marriage for several months.
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The shabby scholar Trophimof, who once tutored the deceased Grisha, longs quietly for the beautiful young Anya.
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In the second act, the family’s servants enjoy a day out in the open fields behind the house.
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Despite the beautiful weather and the appearance of a friendly gathering, Charlotte, Yasha, Dunyasha, and Ephikhodof all harbor their own pain and misery which they can only air to one another.
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Even then, their need for connection and exorcism of their private demons all seem to fall on deaf ears.
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Dunyasha avoids the suicidal Ephikhodof, having fallen for the cruel, affected Yasha instead.
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Charlotte, the stateless child of circus performers laments that she is all alone in the world.
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The protagonist, Gayef, and Lopakhin, having come from a luxurious (and unaffordable) lunch in town, return to the estate and linger in the fields.
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Lopakhin warns the protagonist that rumors of potential buyers are swirling and urges her to reconsider his idea about chopping down the cherry orchard, but she will not hear his “vulgar” proposal.
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Trophimof, Anya, and Barbara join the gathering in the field.
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Trophimof lectures everyone on the intellectual and social problems facing modern-day Russia, such as the lazy, snobbish “intelligentsia” and the lack of “honest and decent” hardworking individuals.
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When a tramp comes along and begs money off of the protagonist, she hands him a valuable gold coin, as she does not have any smaller change.
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Barbara, angry that her mother is giving away money to bums when there is barely enough food back up at the house, angrily heads home.
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Everyone but Anya and Trophimof follows her.
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Anya confesses to Trophimof that while she once loved the cherry orchard dearly, she now feels nothing when she looks at it.
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Trophimof suggests that Anya has realized the pain and suffering of generations of unpaid laborers once tasked with maintaining the orchards, and is sympathetic to the plight of the working class.
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He entreats Anya to throw her house keys down the well, and Anya excitedly agrees that she should.
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Trophimof predicts that despite the struggles he has faced in his life, happiness is fast approaching.
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Barbara calls for Anya to come up to the house, but instead, she scampers away to the river with Trophimof.
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In act three, it is August, and the protagonist has arranged for a lavish dinner party, complete with a Jewish band of musicians and lots of dancing.
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She has orchestrated the party to distract from her anxiety—in town, far away, the auction for the cherry orchard is taking place, and Gayef and Lopakhin have not yet returned with news of whether the property was sold or saved.
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Over the course of the dinner party, the servants—notably Dunyasha and Ephikhodof—act like guests themselves, incurring the ire of Barbara, who wants for them to remember their place.
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The protagonist confides in Trophimof the details of her miserable relationship with her ex-lover, who writes to her nearly every day and is like a heavy but beautiful stone around her neck.
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Trophimof states that he is “above love,” but the protagonist mocks him, calling him a “freak” for denying his feelings for Anya.
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Eventually, Gayef enters the drawing-room, crying.
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The protagonist asks him what happened at the auction, but he refuses to answer, and heads upstairs to change.
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Moments later, a gleeful Lopakhin comes into the room; when the protagonist asks him whether the cherry orchard was sold, he replies that it was, and when she asks him who bought it, he answers that he himself was the highest bidder.
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Lopakhin brags about how far he—the son of lowly peasants—has come in the world and looks forward to building a “new life” for the middle classes on the land where the orchard now stands.
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The protagonist begins weeping; Anya kneels before her and comforts her, promising that they will soon plant a new orchard somewhere even lovelier.
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In the fourth and final act, the house is bare and packed up; a large pile of luggage sits in the corner of the nursery.
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The protagonist and her family are hurriedly and tearfully preparing to leave—they are taking a train out of town in less than an hour.
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As everyone hurries around, packing at the last minute, Lopakhin attempts to serve champagne to “celebrate” his ownership of the estate.
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Firs, meanwhile, has fallen ill, and has been sent to the hospital for treatment, according to Yasha.
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As the protagonist, Gayef, Anya, and Barbara bid goodbye to their home, the sound of axes chopping down the cherry trees rumble in the distance.
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Anya begs Lopakhin to wait until they have left, at least, before he and his men begin dismantling their family’s pride and joy.
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The protagonist, in a moment alone with Lopakhin, begs him to at last propose to Barbara; he consents.
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The protagonist calls Barbara into the room and then leaves so that the two can be alone.
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They awkwardly discuss the weather until Lopakhin is called outside by one of his workers; Lopakhin does not propose to Barbara, and she collapses near the luggage in tears.
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The protagonist helps Barbara collect herself, and sunnily states that it’s time for the entire family to start out on a new journey.
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As Anya and Trophimof bid a happy goodbye to the old house, the protagonist and Gayef linger inside a moment longer, bidding their youth and happiness goodbye before locking up and leaving.
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After everyone has gone, an ill-looking Firs emerges from the next room; he has been left behind and “forgotten.”
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He sits on the sofa and laments his wasted life; he lies down and appears to die as the sounds of the axes chopping down the nearby cherry trees start up again.
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The play opens with the three Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, in their drawing-room, celebrating Irina's name-day
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The sisters long to return to their beloved hometown of Moscow, where they spent a happy childhood
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Several soldiers visit for the celebration, including Baron Tuzenbakh, who shares Irina's idealism about labor
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A new Lieutenant-Colonel, Vershinin, who knew the sisters' parents in Moscow, is introduced at the party
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Masha is unhappily married to Kulygin, a schoolteacher who lavishes affection on her that she grumpily avoids
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Tuzenbakh declares his love for Irina, but she doesn't reciprocate his feelings
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The sisters' brother, Andrey, is dating Natasha, who arrives late and awkwardly dressed
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Andrey and Natasha marry and have a baby, living in the sisters' house where Natasha takes control
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Masha and Vershinin begin an affair, adding to the household tensions
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A fire breaks out in the town, and the sisters and friends gather at the Prozorov house afterward
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Chebutykin, an elderly family friend and doctor, is drunk and depressed, revealing Natasha's affair with Protopopov
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Irina is unhappy in her job and knows they'll never move to Moscow; Olga suggests she marry Tuzenbakh for practical reasons
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Tuzenbakh retires from the army to work in a brick factory and is set to marry Irina, who will become a teacher
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Chebutykin tells Andrey and Masha that Solyony, a soldier who also loves Irina, has challenged Tuzenbakh to a duel
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Tuzenbakh is killed in the duel; the sisters cling to one another, resolving to start life anew despite their grief
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