Anton Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” tells the story of a late 1800’s Russian estate tossed into turmoil by the arrival of a professor Serebryakov, a man that has retired from academia to live on his dead wife’s land. The tiresome Serebryakov, displays arrogance and tyranny to everyone around him, and only stays on the estate due to the blind admiration of his former mother-in law. His beautiful young wife, Elena, is lusted after by the other men on the estate, including the doctor Mikhail Lvovich Astrov and the manager of the estate, Ivan Petrovich Voynitzky, Uncle Vanya. Indeed, the primary conflict in the novel is between Vanya and the professor, for upon meeting the figure for which he has toiled for years, Vanya realizes that he has wasted his life laboring for a useless man. It is possible; however, to extend this conflict to a broader matter, what Karl Marx would describe as a larger class struggle between the proletariat, the class that forever labors to support the......

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Title: Proletariat Despair In Uncle Vanya
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