Summary and Analysis Part 1: Chapters 16-23 - ANNA KARENINA.
Based on the title of the novel, you'd probably assume that the whole book is about Anna Karenina. Ha! Tolstoy is way too crafty for that. While Anna is one focus of Tolstoy's intense psychological analysis, the novel is about a lot more than just one woman. It's also got a series of polemics (a.k.a. hyper-intense arguments) about a variety of social, political, and philosophical issues.
Anna Karenina features portraits of three relationships: Dolly and Oblonsky, Kitty and Levin, and Anna and Vronsky. In all three of these relationships, jealousy plays a role that affects the success of the relationship. In general, the less jealous a couple are, the more successful they will be.
Though Anna Karenina gives the novel its name, Levin acts as the novel's co-protagonist, as central to the story as Anna herself. Many critics read Levin as a veiled self-portrait of the author: his name includes Tolstoy’s first name (Lev in Russian), and many of the details of his courtship of Kitty—including the missing shirt at the wedding—were taken straight from Tolstoy’s life.
Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy is a nineteenth century novel tracing the lives of three families, the Oblonskys, the Karenins and the Levins. One Hundred Years of Solitude, written in 1967 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez follows the story of the Bundia Family for a hundred years in fictional Macondo.
Character Role Analysis Anna. In Tolstoy's initial conception of the novel, Anna was portrayed as an unattractive woman, designed to arouse the dislike of readers. That's obviously not the Anna we see in Anna Karenina. Were you rooting for Anna? We were. How could we help it? Anna's entrance into the novel is compelling and dramatic.
Anna Karenina is a story told in three locations: the two Russian major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg and the rural countryside. Each location holds special connotations that are reflected in events and characters that live there.
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. From the very opening chapters, where a watchman is accidentally run over by a train at Moscow's Petersburg station, to the final, climactic scenes of arbitrary destruction when Levin searches for Kitty in a forest beset by lightning, characters are brought together and forced into action against their.