[Chekhov] uses farce as a satiric device, to alienate us from a character so that we will not become too sympathetically involved with his spurious self-pity or melancholy posturing.
In the climactic scene of The Cherry Orchard, Gayev recites the following hymn to the Great Mother Goddess:
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