Bluntly, she tells Sonya that Astrov doesn’t love her.“SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. She doesn’t care that the professor has yet to make his announcement. Yelena is furious with the course of events and wants to leave immediately. But, he claims, Yelena asked him this because she really wants to know if Astrov loves her, in which case the answer is definitely yes. Yelena asks Astrov about his feelings, and he says no, he doesn’t love Sonya. Yelena offers to talk to him about it, but Sonya isn’t certain: if he says no, she will be crushed, whereas if they continue the ambiguous state they’re in, she can live each day filled with hope. Sonya talks about having been in love with the doctor for six years and how he has never noticed her ardor. In the third act, Serebryakov has called Vanya, Sonya, and Yelena into the living room. Yelena encourages this possible relationship, which fills Sonya with joy. Sonya in turn admits that she’s in love with the doctor. Yelena admits that when she first married the professor, she loved him, but that overtime, their love has faltered. But once they start talking honestly, they unburden their secrets to each other. The two haven’t been very fond of one another in the past few days Sonya thinks Yelena is a gold-digger and Yelena thinks Sonya is a self-righteous bore. He complains over the fuss everyone has made since the professor and his much younger and very pretty wife, Yelena, arrived yesterday.Īstrov goes home, and Yelena enters to talk with Sonya. He is 47 and, with the help of Sonya, the professor’s daughter by his first wife, has been managing the estate that feeds the old professor’s urban lifestyle. “Uncle” Vanya (Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky) joins them. Astrov bemoans the fact that his demanding job has made him older than he should be he is middle-aged. They have known each other since the old professor’s first wife died, eleven years ago. The play opens to an elderly nurse, Marina Timofeevna, and Michael Lvovich Astrov, a provincial doctor, discussing their relationship. It is performed by theaters around the world. The four-act play features an urban couple, a professor and his wife, coming to a rural village to observe the estate that they own and to inform the inhabitants that they will soon be selling the property in order to make a larger investment. Russian author Anton Chekhov wrote the play Uncle Vanya in 1897 it premiered in Moscow two years later.

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