1) About Writer and published date:
Russian one of the best writers Leo Tolstoy wrote the novel Anna Karenina, he was not only novelist but philosopher of knowledge, Romanticist of sensational ideas and transcendentalist of peaceful mind. This book was first published in 1878 as the book form but released in The Russian Messenger as serial installments from 1873 to 1877.
2) Main Characters:
Anna Karenina: is the tragic heroine of the novel.who is the central figure of the Novel.
Vronsky: the lover of Anna Karenina, who was a wealthy and handsome military officer.
Karenin: husband of Anna Karenina, who was a high ranking government minister.
3) Themes:
marriage, hypocrisy, family, society, faith, jealousy, lust, passion, fidelity.
4) What are the opening lines of Anna Karenina?
“All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
5) What mental illness did Anna Karenina have?
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental problem. It increases during adolescence or early adulthood. It’s signed by a pattern of emotional instability, impulsive behavior, distorted self-image, and unstable relationships.
6) Character of Anna Karenina:
Anna is an irresponsible character. She doesn't care about family but She shows her beautiful looks with decorated desire and passion to attract the young generation. Vronsky, one of them but she can't cope with Vronsky at all. At the end, she keeps trying to attract young men to make Vronsky jealous. According to Raymond Williams, “she has become a wife and a mother without ever having been a girl in love” (797)
7) What happens to Kitty in Anna Karenina?
Kitty falls in love with Vronsky and Levin wants to marry Kitty but Kitty rejects the proposal that time, one the hand, Vronsky falls in love with Karenina, Kitty's sister-in-law so, Kitty falls ill in the wake of losing Vronsky. She travels with her mother to a German spa over the winter to recover and ultimately marry Levin.
8) What is the Angle of Story?
The novel relates two stories: the tragic, hopeless fate of Anna, her husband and her lover, and the finding of life, happiness and truth in the relationship of Levin and Kitty. The story takes place in the revolutionary period when the industrial revolution broke into Tsarist Russia along with the railway.
9) What is the Tragedy of Anna Karenina?
Futility of passion and desire of Anna and hopeless fate of the life of Anna,her husband and her lover.
10) Why did Anna Karenina go crazy?
She wanted to live life on her own terms and conditions, but was wracked with guilt, and this guilt led to a horrible self-loathing. The self-loathing she then projected onto other people -- Karenin, society, and eventually even Vronsky himself.
11) Why did Anna kill herself ?
She was frustrated about the relationship between husband and lover. Karenin, her husband wanted to divorce her for she was having affairs with Vronsky and Vronsky did not marry Anna until her husband did not divorce her. Also she has a problem with Borderline personality disorder. She does make the right decision and suicide herself before the train.
12) What does the ending line of Anna Karenina mean?
The ending lines of Anna Karenina
“…[M]y life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!”
13) Have any related the last lines with Levin?
Yes! Levin not believe the faith of God at the first time but after the rejection of Ketty, he spent the village with farming and he knows Karenina but hearing the news of sucide of Anna, he realised the importance of family as well as believe in the faith of God and finally he became a religious person.
14) Is it a true story?
The inspiration behind the character of Anna Karenina is widely considered to be a 37-year-old woman named Anna Stepanova, who was the mistress of one of Tolstoy's friends.
15) What have you learned from the story?
It is a Tragedy of Anna Karenina who risks her own life to fulfill her own desire ultimately she achieved nothing but moral values.
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