All 11 Uses of
peasant
in
The Cherry Orchard
- [Pause] "Little man".... My father was a peasant, it's true, but here I am in a white waistcoat and yellow shoes ...a pearl out of an oyster†
Act 1
- I'm rich now, with lots of money, but just think about it and examine me, and you'll find I'm still a peasant down to the marrow of my bones.†
Act 1
- The peasants don't love me for nothing, I assure you.†
Act 1peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- We've got to learn to know the peasants!†
Act 1
- [Pause] My father was a peasant, an idiot, he understood nothing, he didn't teach me, he was always drunk, and always used a stick on me†
Act 2
- The peasants kept their distance from the masters and the masters kept their distance from the peasants, but now everything's all anyhow and you can't understand anything.†
Act 2peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- The peasants kept their distance from the masters and the masters kept their distance from the peasants, but now everything's all anyhow and you can't understand anything.†
Act 2
- they treat the peasants like animals
Act 2 *peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing
- The peasants have come to say good-bye.†
Act 4peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- I'm just a simple peasant.... TROFIMOV.†
Act 4
- Your father was a peasant, mine was a chemist, and that means absolutely nothing.†
Act 4
Definition:
used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock