Chekhov · The Cherry Orchard · Act 2
The human race progresses
Monologue
Male
Under 2 min
Identity
Class
Disillusionment
Ambition
Trofimov delivers a passionate monologue about human progress, lamenting that most Russian intellectuals do not work and live in moral filth, accusing them of hypocrisy.
TROFIMOV
The human race progresses, perfecting its powers. Everything that is unattainable now will some day be near at hand and comprehensible, but we must work, we must help with all our strength those who seek to know what fate will bring. Meanwhile in Russia only a very few of us work. The vast majority of those intellectuals whom I know…
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