Monologue

Voitski Monologue from Uncle Vanya

From Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

male · anguished · 57 sec

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You must tell me something! Oh, my God! I am forty-seven years old. I may live to sixty; I still have thirteen years before me; an eternity! How shall I be able to endure life for thirteen years? What shall I do? How can I fill them? Oh, don't you see? Don't you see, if only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again; that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke. Oh, to begin life anew! Tell me, tell me how to begin.

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Voitski expresses his deep existential crisis and longing for a new beginning in life, grappling with the weight of his years and the futility he feels.

40s · despair · identity · freedom · isolation · regret

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