# What is Vera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream in What Is to Be Done?

> What Is to Be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky

## Answer

Vera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream is the climax of the novel’s visionary strand. Leaving ordinary Petersburg intrigue, Chernyshevsky stages a guided dream of emancipated, joyful collective life and ends with an imperative to love and labor for that future.

It is also the source of the famous “future is bright and beautiful” lines English readers quote. Use the quote page for the exact wording in our edition; this question for the dream’s role in the book.

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- [xv-vi-ra-pavlovna-s-fourth-dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_to_be_done_se/chapters/xv-vi-ra-pavlovna-s-fourth-dream.md): The Fourth Dream chapter contains the utopian vision and the famous future lines.

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