Anton Chekhov "Three Sisters".

The Three Sisters By: Anton Chekhov GENRE: Russian Drama SETTING: Various rooms in the house of Prozorov, a small country town, Russia. THEMES: "Talk, talk, nothing but talk all day long!" (Masha, IV) "Such trifles, such silly little things, sometimes become so important suddenly for no apparent reason! You laugh at them, just as you always have done, you sill regard them as trifles, and yet you suddenly find they're in control and you haven't …

…annot even make up their minds as to if they should open their doors to refugees from the fire or not. They sit around, like Nero with fiddle in hand, and wish for the fire to stop because it is inconvenient. In that, we see the depth of the apathy that seeks to destroy the dreams that they once had, never realizing that they could have easily realized those dreams with one decisive action.