Always Blaming Others: Uncle Vanya act III

Act III of Uncle Vanya is the most important part of the story. The feelings that had been repressed since the beginning of the play are now shown with no limit and with no secrets. Vanya has a big fight with the professor in which he says that his life has been ruined spent because of him. Vanyas resentment caused a huge dispute in the house, to the point that the professor has decided to leave. Vanya is so envious towards the professor mostly because he is husband to Yelena the woman Vanya loves that he tries shooting him, this is where the story totally changes.

“You have destroyed my life! I have not lived! Thanks to you, I have ruined and wasted the best years of my life."

Before Vanya shoots the professor there are a lot of repressed feelings but in a way are shown passively, when Vanya shoots and tries to commit murder we can see that what he felt towards his life and towards the professor have exploded and he can’t hold them anymore. Why does Vanya just sit and wait doing nothing if there are so many things to do? Why does he blame it on the professor?

Elena and Sonya were not the best friends at the beginning of the play, but once they talk and drink they end their disputes. Sonya develops a lot of trust in Elena to the point of telling her she loves Astrov and she asks her to talk to him. Astrov doesn’t love Sonya and is asked never to come back to the farm for jut seeing him harms Sonya. Love is a common theme in this play but it´s not the kind of love in which everybody is happy and with the person they love. Everybody suffers because of love in the play.

Astrov the doctor states a problem that is still common in humanity. Due to technology´s evolution, nature is being put aside and destroyed. In his charts he explains how the forests, animal species and other natural resources have been destroyed by the coming of men. He shows how fifty years before the coming of men, the forests were thick and the animals abundant while in the present most animals are extinct and there are only small patches of forests throughout the country. This is a common problem today and is a major cause for global warming.