I did thorougly enjoy this book - I think Tolstoy's way of expression is truly descriptive - he has this ability to romanticise the dullest of activities with his words. But I just don't know whether I agree as to Anna beign a heroine or not? What do you think?!
2006-08-15 06:08:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Of course she was a victim of her society but does that make her a heroine? She didn't do anything truly outstanding apart from taking alot of crap from the society judging her. I mean to be honest - her final act is hardly heroic more cowardly
2006-08-15 06:18:32 · update #1
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2006-08-16 02:55:46 · update #2
I agree that she was a victim of society, a tragic character - that's why I don't consider her a heroine. For me, the only hero in "Anna Karenina" is Levin.
2006-08-15 06:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by sagittarius 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
But did any body say that she was a heroine, of curse she was a victim , and that she didn't do any thing to call her a heroine I agree with you, but don't forget Tolstoy was novelist in a very critical historical time of Russia , and that he is a great expressionist, I agree with you tow, but don't forget Anna Karenina's " victims like her are today present also" in other forms a women how lives her husband and a child can be a victim and lose, it can be money, can be just the pain, she didn't kill herself because the society didn't accept her or she couldn't bare to be separated from her child she killed herself because she taught she was not loved anymore.
it can happen today too.
2006-08-15 06:34:21 · answer #2 · answered by san s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My absolute favorite book in the world! I think any man who ever wants to understand women should read it.
I don't think she is meant to be either heroine or victim, but possibly "heroically human". By that I mean that she struggles against the confines of a society and age that gives her few choices. Though her final act may be seen as cowardly, I choose to see it as one last ast of defiance - one last refusal to compromise her humanity. She is an oppressed person refusing to be made powerless.
2006-08-15 19:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by isaidno 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think she was an overly glamorized, equally lovable & hateable whack job!
Like most drama Queens are... It's called Bi polar hon. Tolstoy in all his infinite wisdom and complete and total lack of humor, didn't have the termonology to explain it. So he did it through her. Im sure it was just as common back then as it is now and twice as misunderstood.
I am certain (not knowing either way for sure) that "She" was a character based on someone in his life who was very dear to his heart.
The character of Anna was likely inspired, in part, by Maria Hartung (1832–1919), the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Soon after meeting her at dinner, Tolstoy started reading Pushkin's prose and once had a fleeting daydream of "a bare exquisite aristocratic elbow", which proved to be the first intimation of Anna's character.
We write ficton, to explain life to ourselves. That is why so many can often relate to one story written from the perspective of one man's supposed imagination.
2006-08-15 06:14:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good way of looking at this character.I think we can see her both way : a heroine because she believed in the existence of perfect love and a victim because she gave up to her own doubts and questions.I read it long time ago
2006-08-15 07:11:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's a victim of society. She tries to break free, but she dies tragically. It just goes to show how the restrictions of that time destroyed intelligent and independent women, because they had so few choices. What's his name, the main male character, should have married her instead of the dumb girl if it had been possible for her to divorce. He was a wuss.
2006-08-15 06:19:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's not so much a heroine as a victim of her times and culture.
2006-08-15 06:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's a herione. I think they made a movie about the book. It starred Greta Garbo. I'm not sure if they are the same thing though.
2006-08-15 06:13:59 · answer #8 · answered by maxie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heroine, is my reading of it.
2006-08-15 06:12:29 · answer #9 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read if you can mail me then mail it and if you know any online store then tell me.
2006-08-15 06:12:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋