![]() ![]() For example, the professor is fairly unremarkable he is neither the great intellect he believes himself to be, nor the supreme architect of pretension that Vanya accuses him of being. Most of the characters have trouble truly seeing themselves or the nature of others. The lesson is that nearly everyone is doomed to lose the fight against entropy life is always stagnant, and the mere desire for change is simply not enough to stem the tide. ![]() There does seem to be a moment when there is the potential for significant change-the climax with the two shots Uncle Vanya takes at the pompous professorial epicenter of his misery-but the two shots miss the professor, so life at the end of the play is pretty much consistent with how it is was at the beginning. Almost all of the characters struggle with the monotonous quality of their lives out in the Russian countryside: even by the end of the play, there are practically no changes whatsoever. ![]()
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