![]() ![]() Nina is sick of her boring life in the country and wants to move to Moscow to become a famous actress-it is the desire for fame and ego, not to make art for art’s sake, that draws Nina to the stage. She falls for Treplyov because she believes that he is a serious and talented artist, but after Arkadina shuns his work, Nina follows suit and begins to ignore and avoid the lovestruck Treplyov. Nina loves and admires artists, actors, and writers, and longs to be a part of Arkadina and Trigorin’s glamorous world. A young woman who lives across the lake from Sorin’s estate with her cruel, controlling father and stepmother, Nina’s surname means “across the river” in Russian-her name is symbolic of the physical and emotional distance between her and the other characters in the play. The idealistic, fame-hungry Nina Zarechnaya is one of Chekhov’s best-known characters. ![]()
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