Essays on Anna Karenina

Every individual is unique. This is not the most outstanding statement, but the one people know from their childhood. This is actually true; human beings have different characters, habits and reactions to the same events. A lot of personal qualities are determined in the early years of each individual. The character is formed in the childhood and a lot depends on the way the parents bring their son or daughter up. The environment, friends, relatives and even country, everything is essential to influence the future of adult man or woman. The surprising thing is that in spite of the ...

Love is depicted in different mannerisms in the love stories of Anna Karenina and Love in a Time of Cholera (Michael 1). Both films possess common themes as their characters carefully represent different roles to much acclaim the story of Love in the time of cholera is however based on few characters and the Love story is spurn among two major characters. On the other hand, the story in Anna Karenina spurns different people entangled in a love story. In the love story of Anna Karenina, there is a real depiction of married life while there is also true ...

Leo Tolstoy often wrote about marriage and relationship in his novels. One of the most famous books of the writer is dedicated to the theme of love is the ironic novel Anna Karenina. There are two narrative lines of the story: the relationship of a married lady Anna Karenina and Vronsky opposes the marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shtcherbatskaya. The essay discusses the difference between the relationship of two main couples of the novel, Levin and Kitty, Anna and Vronsky. The investigation is held according to the postulates in the modern social psychology and touches the issues of ...

Social Issues in the Films “Anna Karenina” and “The First Grader”

“Anna Karenina” is considered to be a great historical novel written by Russian world renowned novelist Lev Tolstoy. It is also a film directed by Joe Wright. It serves up all the important issues intertwined with tasty, thrilling, salacious and tantalizing gossip. It is a story with varied affairs, complete with sex, heartbreak and eventually, suicide-by-train (Anna Karenina). Having written the novel during the 1870s, there were lots of political and societal changes in Russia. The novel occurs against the backdrop of liberal reforms represented by Emperor Alexander II in the 1860s. These reforms involved prompt growth and development ...

Infidelity and Scandal in “The Storm” and Other 19th Century Writing

Many authors and artists in the nineteenth century tackled a great number of pressing issues in their time, particularly relating closely to the nature of adultery and infidelity. In the world of art, Augustus Leopold Egg’s famous triptych Past and Present demonstrated a husband’s discovery of his wife’s infidelity, and the consequences that ensued, creating a subtle breakdown of the traditional family unit that was thought to be impenetrable in the 19th century. Prominent writers like Leo Tolstoy and Kate Chopin also tackled this issue as well – Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina explores the inherent acceptance of male infidelity and ...

In this work we are going to analyze novels by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on the basis of the following criteria: the role of epigraph in a story, the description of minor characters, the reasons for committing suicide and symbols that appear in both novels. - The role of epigraph in a story Unfortunately, but many people underestimate the role of epigraphs in literary works. However, in many cases authors place them on purpose and in such a way make a foreshadowing, which helps the reader to develop his own expectations upon the plot, to better understate the characters and the essence ...

“The relationship between any movie adaptation and its literary source is more like a passionate fling, a ships-passing-in-the-night moment when the patient prose of fiction meets the flickering, fluid poetry of film, and they see something in one another and decide, against all reason, to give it a go.” (Rafferty) I have two passions in my life: literature and cinematography. However I love them separately, as all the efforts to merge them together are rarely crowned with success, even if the most talented directors work on such movies. Therefore, I did not expect Anna Karenina” by Joe Wright to be a success, as ...

How does the style of this novel compare to the Great Novels of the 19th century that you have read? Why might a very transparent, "classical" realist style be well-suited to the subject matter here? It is a great novel which creates the sense of Tolstoy in Anna Karenina as well as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The realist style is suited to the subject matter as there is a lot of socialist realism in the book and the main character has a lot of traits which are quite similar to the classic Romantic novels. 2. If you know anything about Socialist ...