Troubles of a Russian Guy

Love, desire, emptiness; words that describe the life of a Russian guy that lives to die. The main character of Chekhov’s masterpiece, Uncle Vanya speaks to the deepness of the soul. This play narrates the empty life of Voinistky, a lonely man deprived from love and the actual sense of life. The character revolves around lethargy: his whole life has been spent nurturing a farm that will soon be taken away from him. As most of the other characters, he seems to have lost all hope, to be floating aimlessly in an endless sea of despair and futility. Voinistky is the most obvious demonstration of this hopeless desolation. Moreover, it becomes the structure of the whole play. The character´s emotion can be tracked without any difficulty, getting to analyze the simplicity of the situation. In other words, love denied equals to a harmed heart which will probably drive Voinistky to the climax of emotions. These are the final words of a guy that will live to die in surrendered peace.