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Anton Chekhov's Trisestry 1901; Three Sisters

This play follows the story three sisters Olga, Masha and Irina living in a small Russian town in the 1900's. Throughout the play the three sisters main objective is to move back to Moscow but instead of actually doing anything to achieve their goal they just sit around complaining. They are all unhappy with their lives and find people in their village to be boring and so spend most of their time with army officers they knew from their father, who is now dead. Irina is the youngest sister and cannot find her purpose in life and thinks the best thing to do is work, but when she finally gets a job she finds it very hard and so decides to marry. There's two possibilities to whom this may be to, Tuzenbakh or solyony. she choses Tuzenbakh. As this is all going on Masha is off having an affair on her husband with battery commander Vershinin, which her husband later finds out about. The three sisters have an older brother Andre whom marries a village girl named Natasha. The sisters never warm to her and right so because she turns from a shy and timid person, into a bitter evil character hell bent on ruining their lives. Natasha slowly takes over the Prozorov's household whilst Andre racks up a big gambling debt which he has to bit by bit mortgage the house to pay off. By the end of the play Natasha is completely in charge of the house and leaves the sisters out on their own, alienated from being inside. Irina is ready to leave to marry Tuzenbakh, but gets news he has been shot in a duel against Solyony leaving her purposeless and having to go back to work. Masha's ending isn't any better, she is left by her lover Vershinin however her husband forgives her and takes her back without many hesitations. She basically ends up back in a loveless boring marriage. Olga takes the job of headmistress at the school she teaches in, reluctantly, she never wanted the job but doesn't see anything else on the horizon for her.
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