In his novel Leo Tolstoy's main character has an inconsistent personality. When first mentioned in the novel, Anna is a confident woman that seems as though she is content with her love life. As the story progresses, Anna's inner passion causes her to become jealous, deceitful, and devious.
When Vronsky first views Anna at the train station in the early part of the story, he describes her as a very attractive woman with an "unassuming grace, which was evident throughout her whole figure." Vronsky's mother, who has just finished traveling with Anna on the train, explains to her son how pleasant it was for her to ride with Anna. She cannot seem to say enough about Anna and Vronsky is seen falling in love at the first site of her. Vronsky's mother goes on to say that she could go on traveling throughout the world and never get sick of being with Anna. During the first part of the story, Anna seems to be a very kind woman who is delightful to be around all the time.
After Vronsky and Anna first start their relationship a change is evident in Anna's character. The two fall in love while managing to sneak around to avoid Anna's husband's presence. After the two are seeing each other for some time, Anna eventually becomes pregnant. Anna soon realizes that she made a mistake in marrying her husband. She comes to the conclusion that she and her husband never loved each other, and they had wasted eight years of her life. She thinks her husband does not care about anything she has to say as long as society views their relationship as proper. Then, one night when she can no longer stand it, she tells her husband that she hates him and is in love with Vronsky. When Anna becomes ill and nearly dies, she apologizes for what she has said and hopes that she can be forgiven. Her husband accepts her apology, but as soon as she recovers Anna continues the affair. Anna no longer has any regard for other people's feelings and is only concerned about herself.
Anna's Story Why do we have to read a story about a dead girl? ... The audience knew all about Anna Wood's character. ... Anna Wood was no angel. ... In Anna Wood's case, her parents overlooked her character. ... Yes, Anna was stupid for taking those drugs. ...
Vronsky is at first trying to seek intimacy with Kitty but when his eyes come upon the beautiful Anna, his direction of affection shifts in Anna's favor. Anna Karenina is another person that is evidently charmed by Vronsky. ... Vronsky at one time takes action to impress Anna giving 200 rubles to the deceased's widow in order to impress Anna. Oblonsky points out to Anna and Anna's mother that Vronsky is a great guy and this helps Vronsky's intent to charm Anna and make an impression. " Very kind, really very kind!" ... Vronsky also try's changing his lifestyle in ord...
This is most evident in the scene of Anna's near death experience during her illness. ... Anna and Vronsky continues with their ill-fated love, while Karenin despite his ennoblement, finds Anna cannot love him and reverts back to his old ways. ... As for Anna, she embodies the both of them even thought she didn't know it. ... In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy seems to be in search of answers for his own questions through the two main characters of the novel, Anna and Levin. ... Tolstoy's Anna Karenina provides a lot of insight into our own lives. ...
In the character of Anna, Tolstoy creates a woman who is perhaps most unhappily destined for tragedy. Anna is a beautiful, aristocratic young woman whose life is at the peak of Imperial Russian society. ... Anna could not get a divorce and have the right of having custody of her son at the same time. ... They were having arguments due to Anna"s strong feelings of jealousy. ... Extremely depressed, Anna lost contact with reality and committed suicide. ...
Being forced into marriage can we say that Anna ever experienced true love? ... Indeed this is what Anna did when she found Vronsky. ... Even though what Anna did was wrong, should we blame her? If we step into Anna's shoes, we as readers have no choice but to sympathize for Anna. ... After analyzing Tolstoy's presentation of Anna, I've come to the conclusion that we should sympathize for Anna because of the wretched life she lived. ...
ANNA"S STORY- ESSAY Task: "Biographies may be constructed to do more than tell a story of a person's life" Discuss how your reading of Anna's Story shows that it has been constructed to achieve a particular purpose. ... They all invite the reader to see Anna as a happy family member, young and innocent. ... Anna is also observed in the photographs with her family or in "household situations". ... When Anna dies Donaghy includes Anna was like golden, ripped peaches. ... In conclusion it can be seen how the expository text Anna's Story seeks to inform parents and childr...
"Anna's Story" is a non-fiction expository text written by Bronwyn Donaghy. ... This shows us that Anna was not really as innocent as she is made out to be. ... Part Two of the book is gives us information about what went on around Anna's death. ... This IS what happened to Anna. ... This is another possible excuse in the reasons of why Anna needed to take drugs. ...
Part one, chapter one of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina reveals all of the essential aspects in novel. ... Tolstoy accomplishes using the first chapter to the fullest in order to set the foundation for Anna Karenina. ... The impact of the opening argument echoes through the remainder of the novel in the marriage of Anna. As a result of Stephen's failures in love, his sister Anna decides to travel to Moscow from Petersburg to try and console Dolly. ... That is why the very first chapter had the most impact throughout Anna Karenina. ...
Anna, known for the affairs that she had, initially lost her case. ... Even more important is evidence of public opinion, instead of siding against Anna as an unfit daughter causing trouble for her family Hall's citizens actually sided with Anna against her father. ... Anna Buschler's lived the complete opposite life. ... Anna and her brother Phillip and sister Agatha grew apart and because of the dishonorable things that Anna did to her family, caused hatred between them all. ... Anna Buschler led a very challenging life, and a very dramatic one at that. ...
