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How would you want anaudience to respond to the character of Natasha in Act 2 of the play? Explainhow you would perform the role to achieve your needs  

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How would you want an audience to respond to the character of Natasha in Act 2 of the play? Explain how you would perform the role to achieve your needs Evidently there is a progression from Natasha's timid, under-confident and harmless character in Act I, "I'm ashamed of myself, I don't know what's wrong with me", to a much more dominant, controlling and austere personality in Act II, "So coarse! So lacking in breeding". I believe that it is important to highlight this progression, but I would choose to introduce the further layers of Natasha's character subtly as an on going process. This is due to the fact that in the construction of 'Three Sisters', Chekhov used Zola's ideas of naturalism as his basis, thus representing the world of the sisters as a distillation of 'real life'. The naturalistic style in which Chekhov chose to use demands a character that changes...

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