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. ... To come to terms with death is something that takes a lot of courage and a full understanding of oneself. ...
Being young, inexperienced and innocent compared to Loomis who is very tactless and lacking with moral decency, this causes Ann to flee from her house to the surrounding hills in the valley, as it horrifies her to think that she will become his slave. ... Being starved, frightened and bored, Ann finally plucks up the courage to have a final confrontation, to tell him that his selfish, controlling behaviour has forced her to leave and to remind him that he has lost another friend because of his ways: "Don't go, don't leave me. ...
Being young, inexperienced and innocent compared to Loomis who is very tactless and lacking with moral decency, this causes Ann to flee from her house to the surrounding hills in the valley, as it horrifies her to think that she will become his slave. ... Being starved, frightened and bored, Ann finally plucks up the courage to have a final confrontation, to tell him that his selfish, controlling behaviour has forced her to leave and to remind him that he has lost another friend because of his ways: "Don't go, don't leave me. ...
His desire for Mattie is likewise crushed by his inability to either break free of Zeena or muster the courage to defy convention and risk ruin. ... Red is also the colour of passion, transgression, and sin - the trade mark colour of the devil- thus Mattie's red accessories also symbolise her role as Ethan's temptress toward moral transgression. ...
Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). ... Perhaps this is another function of didactic fiction that Barrie is relaying to his readers: that growing up, and learning, oftentimes involves distinguishing between what is moral, and what is not, and that parents are usually the ones to provide us with the answer to such a question "yet another trademark of children's literature within the overall Literary Canon. ...
