However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. They identify Moscow with their happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. Moscow is a major symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow however for the past eleven years they have been living in a small provincial town. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. Narrator/Stage Directions - Mary Herndon Bell VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant - Elizabeth KlettįERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor - Algy PugĪLEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant - Raken VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain - Denny Sayers Lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery - Bruce Pirieīaron, lieutenant in the army - John Fricker High school teacher, married to MASHA - mb NATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancée, later his wife - Availle Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves.

Three sisters anton chekhov