Thematically, the novel parallels its heroine's, Anna Karenina, moral and social conflicts with Constantin Levin's internal struggle to find the meaning of life. ... Critics tend to miss the role that the theme of life and death plays in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. ... Levin's example here provides for the reader an insight into Tolstoy's intertwining and complex structure in Anna Karenina. ... In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy seems to be in search of answers for his own questions through the two main characters of the novel, Anna and Levin. ... Tolstoy's Anna ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Vronsky is at first trying to seek intimacy with Kitty but when his eyes come upon the beautiful Anna, his direction of affection shifts in Anna's favor. Anna Karenina is another person that is evidently charmed by Vronsky. ... Vronsky at one time takes action to impress Anna giving 200 rubles to the deceased's widow in order to impress Anna. Oblonsky points out to Anna and Anna's mother that Vronsky is a great guy and this helps Vronsky's intent to charm Anna and make an impression. " Very kind, really very kind!" ... Throughout the novel, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy'...

• Word Count: 479
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• Grade Level: High School

After reading Leo Tolstoy's, Anna Karenina, most people can agree that some of the major actions that decided the fate of some character's lives and most importantly the novel were considered fallacious. Even in the novel, society deemed some of them as being evil/immoral but of all the characters to perform these deceiving and beguiling actions, I've decided to analyze the actions of the protagonist, Anna Karenina. ... Indeed this is what Anna did when she found Vronsky. ... Even though what Anna did was wrong, should we blame her? If we step into Anna's shoes, we as reade...

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Part one, chapter one of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina reveals all of the essential aspects in novel. ... Tolstoy accomplishes using the first chapter to the fullest in order to set the foundation for Anna Karenina. ... The entire opening two pages of the novel more importantly foreshadow the events to come with Anna Karenina and her husband and her husband Alexis Karenin. The impact of the opening argument echoes through the remainder of the novel in the marriage of Anna. ... That is why the very first chapter had the most impact throughout Anna Karenina. ...

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In Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, both heroines are introduced as strong women, but as the story progresses, their character flaws get the best of them. ... Charles Bovary and Alexey Karenin are the main victims of Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina's affairs, respectively. ... In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Anna is involved in an unfulfilling relationship with Karenin in that she is restless by their monotonous relationship, and is looking for something more. ... Rodolphe and Count Alexey Vronsky are the "lovers- in Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. ... Anna's conduct toward the b...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the character of Anna, Tolstoy creates a woman who is perhaps most unhappily destined for tragedy. ... Anna could not get a divorce and have the right of having custody of her son at the same time. ... They were having arguments due to Anna"s strong feelings of jealousy. ... Anna Karenina found temporary happiness outside marriage; ultimately however, her lack of independence and social inequality within an adulterous relationship causes her grief. Extremely depressed, Anna lost contact with reality and committed suicide. ...

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The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. ... That Anna and Vronsky ever meet and begin the fateful affair that becomes the centerpiece of the novel is itself a consequence of a long chain of unrelated events: culminating Anna's sharing a berth with Vronsky's mother on her way to reconcile Dolly and Stiva in Moscow. ... Three of the novel's characters, Stephen Oblonsky, Constatine Levin, and Anna Karenina, all in some way connected to the Shcherbatsky family, serve to illustrate the various ways that Tolstoy's individual can be, or fail to be, ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The same remains true in both Anna Karenina and Chronicle of a Death Foretold where the use of cloth may not seem significant on the outer levels, but upon further analysis it allows the reader to dive into the cultural systems of which the authors write about. ... During the time context in which Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina, Russian society goes through a demoralizing downward spiral. ... When analyzing the Tolstoy's brilliant use of clothing in Anna Karenina, one immediately sees the significance of Anna's dress selection. ... The same holds true in Anna Karenina as well. Whe...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and passed on in 1910 at the age of eighty-eight. Being born into one of Russia's great families of aristocracy was a positive for Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his writings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote What is Art, which is what will be d...

• Word Count: 814
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• Grade Level: High School

Tolstoy shows a kinder more considerate side of the Countess at the dance where Kitty realizes that Vronsky loves Anna. During the much anticipated mazurka dance, the Countess finds her friend without a partner as Vronsky is dancing with Anna. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most of the films in this genre are based on a novel of a modern or classical writer such as: "The Notebook", "A Walk to Remember" (by Nicholas Sparks), "Anna Karenina" (Leo Tolstoy) etc. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

BOOK REWIEW: A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin Portrait: Burton "Bud" Corliss is the murderer and main character in the novel. He kills both Dorothy Kingship and her sister Ellen and is going to marry the third sister, Marion, when Gordon C. Grant - a disc jockey who helped Ellen to investiga...

• Word Count: 2110
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil' by Fay Weldon is basically about an ugly woman named Ruth who changes her very nature from that of a dutiful and obedient wife to a she-devil. This is when she is accused of being one by her adulterous and indifferent husband, who thinks that it is acceptable for him to love and have sex with other women as his marriage to Ruth was one of convenience' which shows that he didn't really love her; convenience' is associated with practicality, not love. A she-devil, what Ruth has become, is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as be...

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Introduction Russian author, essayist and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy enriched the literature; specifically the Russian literature heritage with enormous astounding genius literary works. The inconstancy of Tolstoy's life has left a great impact on his style of writing; approximately most of his works ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School