e decides not to commit suicide and to take his life into his own hands. He wants to live life for himself and get a job and a place to live. He decides that its better to live a normal life than to die with heroism and fame. This is certainly socially significant because in reality so many people do give up on themselves and their lives just like Semian almost did. But in the end people are in control of their own destiny and they should take their lives into their own hands rather than giving up on it. The more entertaining aspects of the play revolved around some of the more minor characters. These characters, although having meaningful purpose in the story, were meant to ridicule the various segments of the Soviet society. For example most people directly connected with the church are thought of as wholesome and without sin but the clergyman in this story was drunk all the time. By showing this representative of the Russian church as an alcoholic suggests the corruption of Russia as a whole. The Postman had only two things on his mind, first the Revolution and anything that would forward it, and secondly women. He cant control himself around women and when he sees one he has a comical outburst. He just cant seem to control his urges. This character ridicules Communism. The member of the Intellegencia does not seem so intelligent at all and completely contradicts the organization, which he represents. The butcher acts as a typical dishonest, conniving swindler, which seems to ridicule the businessman. These characters and what they represent coming into conflict with each other suggests the segments of society that are in constant conflict.Overall, the acting was quite convincing. I do think that the actor who played Simian could have been in more visible conflict with himself. As a man whos deciding between life and death I would expect more inner turmoil. Some other individual performances that impressed me were t...
