![]() ![]() As explained by Book Riot, Anna has the opposite experience - she loses everything. The man Anna has an affair with, Vronsky, suffers some minor embarrassment over their affair but remains wealthy and accepted by society. Author Jilly Cooper points out that the consequences of infidelity and sexuality are starkly different for the men and women in the novel: Anna's brother has an affair with the nanny hired to care for his children but is forgiven. ![]() Most obviously, Tolstoy carefully notes the tragic double standards faced by his characters. That gives the characters and their motivations a timeless quality and makes all of their decisions - even when self-destructive - believable. Even though the reader is allowed into the private thoughts of the characters, the technique conveys the impression of simple truth-telling, that the narrator is simply reporting facts about people he knows intimately. The use of both an omniscient narrator and a stream-of-consciousness approach to the characters' inner lives effortlessly captures every detail.Ī s noted by author Debashish Sen, the realist approach in "Anna Karenina" extends to the narrator and the characters. He goes inside the heads of his characters and lets the reader know what they are thinking. As critic James Meek points out, Tolstoy eschews metaphors and similes and simply tells the reader what things are, what characters are doing, in simple but beautiful language. Through troubled courtships, reconciliations, marriage and the birth of each one’s first child, Anna and Levin experience joy and despair as they each struggle to find their place in the world and meaning for their lives.By the time Leo Tolstoy sat down to work on "Anna Karenina," realism was a well-established movement. Levin struggles with self-esteem, and even flees to the country, before gaining courage to return and offer himself to the beautiful and pure Kitty. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. ![]() ![]() Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Download cover art Download CD case insert Anna Karenina (Dole translation) ![]()
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