Anna Karenina (part 2)
About This Novel
"Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's second landmark novel, written from 1873 to 1877. Anna is a high-society lady, young and beautiful, pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, Anna met the young officer Vronsky. The latter was attracted by her beauty and pursued her desperately. In the end, Anna fell in love and decided to leave her husband and live with Vronsky. But the longing for her son and the pressure from the surrounding environment made her fall into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that Vronsky was not a dedicated and ideal figure. After losing her son and her last spiritual support, Vronsky, in despair, she chose to commit suicide by lying on the train. The novel exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the Russian upper class in the 1860s and 1970s. It also expresses the author's complex moral exploration and ideological exploration during a period of social transformation.
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