Question by S Z: Does anyone know of any good English literature sites–Anna Karenina?
I am really bad at finding good sources for papers, I have to find some.Yahoo and Google is what I am using but they keep finding the same/similar things the other had.
(looking for symbolisms.) My professor is really picky at certain cites we get them too.
Thanks 🙂
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Answer by Joe Shemo from Kokomo
Here is a good start:
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Themes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/anna/themes.html
Anna Karenina is widely regarded to be an even greater achievement of tragedy and of the novel form than War and Peace had been the decade before. Tolstoy began it in 1873 and concluded it in 1877. It is the story of a fashionable married woman, Anna Karenina, who arrives in St Petersberg to meet Stepan Arkadyevitch but meets with him another man. This man, Count Vronsky, is strangely attracted to Anna from the outset and she begins to feel for him too. Anna recalls her cold-blooded and cynical husband who is twenty years her senior. He never shows her any affection and considers her to be a trophy. The Count contrives to meet Anna again through his friendship with Stepan, with whom Anna is residing. The novel then follows this liaison as it begin and then ends horribly as Anna’s husband Karenin finds out about the affair. Anna is brought down by others’ passions and power over her and she is driven, after many twists and turns in her fortunes and those of her lovers, to throw herself under the wheels of a train. It is one of the most famous suicides in literary history but to know of its inevitability only makes the tragedy of Anna’s life more cathartic and sad.
Originally conceived of as a dumpy and vulgar housewife, Anna evolved in successive versions of Tolstoy’s manuscript into the beautiful, passionate, and educated woman we know in the novel. Tolstoy’s increasing sympathy for this adulteress suggests the mixed feelings he harbored toward her: she is guilty of desecrating her marriage and home, but is noble and admirable nonetheless. The combination of these traits is a major reason for the appeal of this novel for more than a century. Anna is intelligent and literate, a reader of English novels and a writer of children’s books. She is elegant, always understated in her dress. Her many years with Karenin show her capable of playing the role of cultivated, beautiful, society wife and hostess with great poise and grace. She is very nearly the ideal aristocratic Russian wife of the 1870s.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/anna/
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terry says
You just need to be careful that you dont copy information word for word and that is what most teachers get grumpy about.