Anna Karenina
Mariya Zade 18/02 Taking a trip into Tolstoy’s Masterpiece Anna Karenina and exploring the ideas that Tolsoy expores in the book After Tolstoy was finished with “War and Peace”, he continued analyzing Dekabrists’s movement, its roots and consequences. ... In January of 1872, Anna Stepanovna Pigorova threw herself under the train. ... The “Anna Karenina” that is known to a wide range of readers, now has very little in common with Tolstoy’s initial draft, and Anna herself has nothing to do with heroine Tolstoy wanted to create at the beginning. ... ” This woman was Anna Karenina. ... Anna Karenina is a married woman. ... But at Moscow Ball, Kitty (the young girl that loves Vronskyi) sees that Anna looks at Vronsyi with erotic admiration. “Anna piyana venom vozbuzhdaemogo eu vosxisheniya…” as Tolstoy puts it. Anna leaves Moskow and goes back to Saint Petersburg to escape meeting Vronskyi. ... Anna asks him why he is going to Saint Petersburg and he replies the exact way that she is secretly dreaming about and that her soul desired to hear but what her mind is scared of. ... Anna doesn’t answer but the signs of the battle are shown clearly on her face. Anna’s struggle with herself is stressed by the storm that starts that moment as a prediction that the future won’t be calm and comfortable; that tragedy is on its way. ... As hard as Anna tries to come back to her old life, the secret desire burns her soul and her body. ... He is not “zlaya machine” as Anna calls him during their fight. ... Even Voronskyi admits that Karenin was “ na negosigaemoi visote” when he came to make peace with Anna. ... Aleksey Alekseevich is twenty years older then Anna; when he asked Anna to marry him he gave her all feeling that he was capable of giving. ... ” When he finds out about Anna’s unfaithfulness, the first feeling he experiences is an unexplainable pity for her. His good nature urges him to help Anna, whom he really loves. ... The question that bothers him the most is how to clean himself from the dirt that Anna spilled all over him (this is his definition of what she did to him) to continue his proper and useful life. ... He doesn’t care that Anna is unhappy with him he just wants her back. ... Vronskyi falls passionately in love with Anna. ... His love is so serious that he is willing to give all of it up to have Anna. He tries to protect Anna from the society; he takes upon himself the most serious obligations concerning the woman he loves. Anna leaves Karenin. Vronskyi and Anna are living together. He tells his brother that he looks at his relationship with Anna as marriage. ... He and Anna leave the country for a while. The more Anna gets to know Vronski the more she loves him. ... It becomes obvious when the return to Russia, where Anna is not accepted. He feels great sadness in his soul and boredom was torturing him The upper class society forgave Voronski his affair with Anna but it never forgave her. ... All her former friends and acquaintances closed their doors to Anna. But Vronski could still have the life he used to have before he met Anna. ... He doesn’t approve of its rejection of Anna. But he doesn’t approve Anna’s behavior as well. He blames the society actually not for rejecting Anna, but for doing the same things she did, but quietly.