Influential RElationships
What are relationships? Relationships are the attitudes, feelings, and actions portrayed towards oneself, nature and others. In Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, relationships of all types play a major role in the development of the plot. ... In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s views of relationships are developed through his choice of plot, setting, viewpoint, symbolism, and style. In Anna Karenina, one believes that Tolstoy produced two parallel plots rather than one story line to elaborate and carry out the theme of relationships. ... In their stories Tolstoy presents the reader with many outlooks on societal, personal, natural, and inhumane relationships. The general theme of relationships is important to the plot for various reasons. ... One can infer that relationships have a significant role in the novel because the opening page deals with an unstable marriage. ... Throughout the Levin faces relationships with himself, god and his beliefs in work. ... Anna and Vronsky’s love affair also reinforces the theme of relationships. ... The reader can see that in the city most relationships are of personal satisfaction. ... The city and countryside in Anna Karenina allows the reader to see the importance of the setting through the relationships of characters. ... The theme of relationships is also portrayed through the train station because it is the beginning and the end of Anna’s and Vronsky’s love affair. ... Tolstoy’ s style , tone , diction and irony are an importance to the relationships of the novel because they allow the reader to see how characters grow with themselves, society and others. ... Tolstoy’s use of resources of language enhance and brighten the readers judgment of the characters and their relationships with one another. Plot, setting, point of view, symbolism and style are the development of Tolstoy’s outlook on relationships in his novel, Anna Karenina. One concludes that relationships, such as marriage play a significant role in the novel due to evidence of particular characters. ... One also concludes that Anna Karenina is a novel that illustrates universality though the theme of relationships.