Anna Karenina

Author: (Russia) Leo Tolstoy
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Features: Anna Karenina has two seamlessly integrated and interrelated parallel main plots. The two main plots, centered around Anna and Levin respectively, address two aspects of the issue. In the primary main plot, the central character is Anna, with whom are associated her husband Karenin, her lover Vronsky, her brother Oblonsky's family, and the three circles of St. Petersburg high society as well as some aristocrats in the military. The characters in Anna's storyline are mostly involved in moral and ethical issues. In this plot, the author primarily aims to show the intense changes in the moral and ethical concepts of aristocrats in the upper class at that time due to the influence of bourgeois thought in family, marriage, and other aspects. Anna Karenina is a young woman with outward beauty, sincere emotions, a rich inner world, and full of vitality. She marries a St. Petersburg bureaucrat, Karenin, who is much older than her. For many years, she lives a life of a virtuous wife and mother. By chance, she meets the charming and dashing young officer Vronsky and falls in love with him. She leaves her family and follows Vronsky, only to face the hostility of the entire upper class. She bravely resists, but the good times do not last long. Eventually, her relationship with Vronsky begins to crack, and finally, she takes the path of suicide.