The Coast of Utopia: Salvage | Character Analysis
Herzen is a very different man in Salvage than he was in the previous plays. He is older, sometimes wiser, but often blinded by his own stubbornness. Many of the characters in the play characterize him as old-fashioned or out of touch. This is most directly evoked in his ugly confrontation with Sleptsov, who forces Herzen to confront the fact that his own convictions, however strongly held, are not necessarily those of the generations behind him. Bakunin, who returns from exile, similarly chastises Herzen for not changing with...
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