Russian playwright Anton Chekhov offers the play Three Sisters as a reference to the lives of a noble Russian family. Set in a small town used for garrisoning troops, the Prozorov family struggles to live their fullest lives in the backwater town. Accompanied by several military men, the three sisters, Olga, Masha, Irina, and their brother, Andrei, attempt to navigate a somber and seemingly predestined life. Anton Chekhov uses the lives of the Prozorov’s and the people they interact with to insinuate beliefs about the Russian nobility and educated society. Throughout Three Sisters, Chekhov suggests that noble people live somber, dissatisfying lives, are disconnected from the struggles of the average Russian, and suffer from various moral pitfalls. Several times throughout Three Sisters, the melancholy nature of educated Russian life is shown. Masha, the middle sister, displays an intense dissatisfaction with her life, mainly due to her marriage that she entered when she was just eighteen years old. When asked about her husband she says, “I thought he was the most wise, cultured, important man I’d ever met. Not anymore. Oh well.” Masha’s wider knowledge base does not align with the small mindedness of her husband Kulygin. Masha’s disdain for her life and her husband is also exhibited when Kulygin invites her to a gathering with his fellow teachers. After she received the invitation, Masha confers with a military doctor named Chebutykin about her aversion to the gathering,