The Three Sisters
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All Themes Change, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life Happiness, Longing, and Disappointment Love and Marriage
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All Characters Olga Prozorov Masha Prozorov Irina Prozorov Andrey Prozorov Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin Baron Nikolay Lvovich Tuzenbakh Kulygin Ivan Romanych Chebutykin Solyony Natasha
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All Symbols Birds
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The Three Sisters

by

Anton Chekhov
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Birds

In The Three Sisters, birds symbolize hope, happiness, and freedom and how these things are often just out of reach. At her name-day celebration at the beginning of the play, an optimistic Irina says…

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