Monologue

Astroff Monologue from Uncle Vanya

From Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

male · defiant · 1:28 min

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(Pressing her hand) Yes, go. (Thoughtfully) You seem to be sincere and good, and yet there is something strangely disquieting about all your personality. No sooner did you arrive here with your husband than every one whom you found busy and actively creating something was forced to drop his work and give himself up for the whole summer to your husband's gout and yourself. You and he have infected us with your idleness. I have been swept off my feet; I have not put my hand to a thing for weeks, during which sickness has been running its course unchecked among the people, and the peasants have been pasturing their cattle in my woods and young plantations. Go where you will, you and your husband will always carry destruction in your train. I am joking of course, and yet I am strangely sure that had you stayed here we should have been overtaken by the most immense desolation. I would have gone to my ruin, and you--you would not have prospered. So go! E finita la comedia!

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Astroff expresses his frustration towards the arrival of a couple whose presence has disrupted the productivity and well-being of the community, highlighting the destructive impact of their idleness.

30s · anger · idleness · destruction · sacrifice · isolation

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