Western Europe German spa Solden and Italian town.St Petersburg the centre of a cold bureaucracy.Moscow perceived as the good, patriarchal heart.Action shuttles spatially from place to place.At one point the time of Vronsky-Anna is over a.Takes place from February 1872 to July 1876.The real heart of the novel is the Anna Levin.Individuals outside the couples e.g.,Vronsky and Certain affinities are detected between.The plot weaves back and forth from one couple to.Relationships possible, and the outcomes. Tolstoy creates a spectrum of couples in the.Does he disapprove or approve of societys norms?.Tolstoy shows the hypocrisy surroundingĮxtra-marital affairs and depicts the complicated.Divorce is difficult and usually the result of.Officially the womans wealth remains her.Why did Stiva Oblonsky marry Dolly? For her.The older couple Shcherbatskys almost certainly.Anna is in an arranged marriage (considered an.In transition from the arranged marriage, towards.Marriage among the upper class in the 1870s The polemic with rationalism, Western social.Nobleman believe the way the simple peasant The question of faith how can an educated.French, English influence marked as negative.The clash of values imported, Western values.Shifting social attitudes towards divorce and the.Shcherbatskaia does not know how to arrange her The changing nature of marriage Princess.Polemic with the radical/nihilistic thinking.Opening sentence states the theme happy and.Obolensky at the restaurant) is clearly felt by The invisible narrator-author shines through in.Clearly autobiographical figure shares details.Position of Tolstoy the conservative thinker.Railway as symbol of the new industrialized.The creation of zemstvos local democracy.

The rise of a new business class partly Jewish.The liberation of the serfs the emergence of the.Complication of the situation of the Russian.Period of rapid change in Russian society.Definitive book version appeared in 1879.Refused mainly because of Tolstoys sarcasticĭepiction of the Russian volunteers going to Instalment version ended with Annas suicide. Journal refused the last part, so that the.Thick journal Russky vestnik (The Russian Novel written and published from 1873 to 1877 in.In fact a complex interweaving of themes and.Commonly seen simply as a novel about anĮxtra-marital affair that ends in suicide (cf.All happy families are alike each unhappy.Opening sentence famous, frequently quoted.At least nine film and TV film versions, plus.Considered one of the worlds greatest novels.

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