“… He greeted her and tried to get into the car, but once again he felt an unbearable desire to look at her. It was not because she was a great beauty, nor because she was attracted to the simple beauty that she felt in her body. However, when she passed by her side, I felt something soft and soft in the face of the attractiveness. When he looked around, she turned his head. “
It is the sentence of the scene where the hero Anna Karrenina and Broncos meet for the first time in the novel <Anna Karrenina>. This novel, which was published by Tolstoy in 1877, is regarded as one of the best masterpieces in the world to this day. And on the 10th, the musical “Anna Carrenina”, which made this stage, What is the real story of this work, which is often known as “the tragic love (or affair) of a lady?” Based on the original work, you can enjoy the work more deeply.
What story is Anna Karrenina?
In 1870s Russia, Anna Karenina is a virtuous woman married to a government official 15 years older than she. Anna falls in love with the handsome and charming Count Alexis Vronsky, but she is torn by her loyalty to her husband and small son.
Meanwhile, Vronsky had first courted Ekaterina “Kitty” Alexandrovna Shcherbatsky, who chose him over gentleman farmer Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin. When Vronsky falls in love with Anna instead, Kitty becomes ill, and Levin, heartsick, withdraws to his country estate. Kitty and Levin finally declare their love for each other.
Anna’s choice of love over duty leads to tragedy: Her affair with Vronsky is revealed, and she is shunned; eventually, she throws herself in front of an oncoming train.
Why is Anna Karrenina a masterpiece?
*0.1 Moments of love delicately captured in seconds.
Tolstoy surprisingly delicately captures the subtle changes in emotions, from the birth of feelings of love and finally to extinction. The work of a master who has delicately depicted all the emotions that flow in and out of delight, despair, joy, and joy is born to admiration.
*Ask the true meaning of life.
Tolstoy constantly crosses the figure of Anna and the people around him and makes him think what true love is. Dolly who forgives her husband but is tired of an empty marriage, ladies who enjoy ridiculous extramarital affairs, mocking Anna, and Levin and Kitty who are deeply involved in conflicts, Show the back side.
Vividly spreading the contemporary Russian society.
This is not just what Anna Karrenina has done. Tolstoy covers a wide variety of topics, including art and religion, economics and philosophy, education and politics, all over the 1,700 pages of novels. It presents a series of discussions on the complex political engineering of the Moscow aristocrats participating in the election, the role of the Russian parliament and the need for public education. (This is why it is not easy to read novels.) These scenes contain not only the particularities of the contemporary Russian society, but also the universal contradictions and anxieties of human society.
A character that is more empathic when you know it.
What about Anna’s marriage?
Anna had a seemingly unfriendly marriage, but in fact she did not love her husband Karenin at all. The Karen grew up as an orphan, and when she was in a crisis of political ambition, she proselytized to Anna for utilitarian reasons. To her, Vronsky was the first man to feel “love”.
Why would Anna not remarry with Vronsky?
If Anna had given her heart, she could divorce Karenin and remarry with Vronsky. If they were ‘legal marriages’, they would not be ‘bullying’ in socializing, nor would they decide to commit suicide. However, Anna hesitates because of her maternal love for her son, ‘Sejyoja’, born with Karrenin. Later when he asked the divorce, he had already changed his mind because of insult.
How rich is Vronsky?
When he first met Anna, Vronsky, a soldier, came out of solidarity with Anna. Since then, he has lived a brilliant life based on land and property inherited from his parents. The size of the property is not mentioned precisely, but it seems to be significant to see hospitals built for charity.
However, charity hospitals were only a temporary concern, and Vronsky is constantly changing hobbies with travel, art, and hunting. His whimsical appearance illuminates the void of noble life based on income. Anna’s life was also so free, so the disconnect from the social circle was more fatal.
What about the karenin?
As a public official, she walked along Tantan Boulevard and was greatly shocked by Anna ‘s affair and runaway. After that, she became weaker and depended on her usual friendly wife and her unclean prophet blindly following her. After Anna’s death, she takes her daughter, who was born between Anna and Vronsky.
What is the relationship between Levin and Tolstói?
The main character is ‘Anna Karenina’, but the character known as the writer of the characters is Levin. Unlike Broncos, who lives in a splendid city life, Levin’s life reflects the life of a writer, who takes a field work in the countryside and confronts realistic problems and makes philosophical thoughts. Levin, who not only explores the meaning of life, but also feels guilty about looking at the farmers working in sweat, says in the last chapter of his novel, “My life, my whole life, will transcend everything that can happen to me” . At this moment, his understanding of Tolstoy’s own beliefs and philosophy.
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