The Three Sisters Themes

You can't always get what you want in Three Sisters. It would be like a Stones song, except when we think about it more, you actually can't ever get what you want. The sisters want to return to Mos...

Characters in The Three Sisters spend a good bit of time dreaming and scheming about how to make tomorrow better than today, usually for themselves but sometimes for the whole of humanity (good for...

The house in The Three Sisters is fifteen miles from the railway station. It's situated in a little town so sleepy, and with inhabitants so dull, that the cosmopolitan sisters might as well be on a...

Love is a big motivator in Chekhov. Everybody wants it (they are human beings, after all). Whether it's desire for romance, a need for respect from one's family, the satisfaction of a child's attac...

Here's the math: marriage = misery as far as The Three Sisters is concerned. Bio note: when he wrote the play, Chekhov hadn't bit that bullet yet—though he would soon after with the actress who p...

Time flies when you're bored and lonely in a big house in a small town in the middle of the Russian countryside. Except when we said "flies," we meant "crawls." There's a strong sense of life getti...

One of the main sources of complaint for the heroines of The Three Sisters is the lack of cultured and educated people in their town. They feel marooned in a sea of ignorance—ignorance that's see...

There are so many good roles for women in The Three Sisters. Between the Prozorov sisters and their sister-in-law, Chekhov creates a pretty comprehensive portrait of different feminine personalitie...