In Anton Chekhov 's The Three Sisters, Irina is detailed as a naive young woman who believes that through work, happiness in life can be achieved. Irina, in the beginning, also has a passive vision of how to achieve personal life goals or dreams by continuously expressing interest of living in Moscow but never making plans to actually go. Masha, by the end of the play, discovers with Vershinin that love represents happiness between individuals and not the dissatisfying relationship that is expressed between Masha and her husband, Kulygin. Olga learns responsibility, as throughout the play she is a caretaker for her sisters and is quick to assist those in need, especially after the fire in the town.
Irina is the youngest of the sisters, which …show more content…
However, a desire she does make happen is the desire to obtain a job to replace the boring lifestyle she has. Irina longs for some sense of purpose and happiness in life but does not know how to achieve them. Eventually, she concocts an assumption that she can achieve purpose and happiness by working, which demonstrates that she’s realizing an individual, must actively pursue a goal in order to achieve it. In the first scene of Act one, Irina correlates the life of a workman to the joys of life by describing how, “ ‘A person has to work hard, work by the sweat of his brow, no matter who he is, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning and purpose to his life, his happiness, his moments of ecstasy’.” (Chekhov 251) Irina’s words demonstrate the upper class’ naive view of working class families and the way in which working class people’s lives function. Irina fails to see that even though working class members have a purpose in life through work, a laborious life is not an antidote for boredom. Even more, a life filled with work alone, I would think has to be just as dissatisfying than not doing anything at all. The repetitive nature of a work routine without anything else to accommodate your day would soon become dull. A family and love are the joys of life,
Irina is the youngest of the sisters, which …show more content…
However, a desire she does make happen is the desire to obtain a job to replace the boring lifestyle she has. Irina longs for some sense of purpose and happiness in life but does not know how to achieve them. Eventually, she concocts an assumption that she can achieve purpose and happiness by working, which demonstrates that she’s realizing an individual, must actively pursue a goal in order to achieve it. In the first scene of Act one, Irina correlates the life of a workman to the joys of life by describing how, “ ‘A person has to work hard, work by the sweat of his brow, no matter who he is, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning and purpose to his life, his happiness, his moments of ecstasy’.” (Chekhov 251) Irina’s words demonstrate the upper class’ naive view of working class families and the way in which working class people’s lives function. Irina fails to see that even though working class members have a purpose in life through work, a laborious life is not an antidote for boredom. Even more, a life filled with work alone, I would think has to be just as dissatisfying than not doing anything at all. The repetitive nature of a work routine without anything else to accommodate your day would soon become dull. A family and love are the joys of life,