What's the story Anna Karenina all about? Our professor just reccomended it to us.?

Answer 1

A pre-Feminist Feminist novel, written by a male, about a woman in a loveless marriage who finds love and commits adultery. Written in a time when such woman were sterotyped as fallen and bad women, the theme rises above the mainstream values of the day. We, instead, discover a mature, intelligent and independently thinking woman of society. The writer in this way challenges the conventional morality.
And of course, we are not just talking about a writer. This is Tolstoy in an act of literary genius.

Answer 2

Tolstoy starts off by declaring that the history of all happy famililes are much the same, but each unhapp family (marriage) is unhappy in its own way. He then tells the story of Mrs. Karenin (Anna Karenina) who ought to be happy, in her class (the upper chinovniki — the highest bureaucrats, in Tsarist Russia) but isn't. Her husband, seen as a catch by others, and polite, is a bore. She is attracted to a dashing cavalry officer, and runs off to Venice with him. Eventually, they are bored with each other, have a falling out, and she is left adrift. She returns to Russia, but still unhappy, commits suicide. Reduced to these simplistic terms, the story is a bummer and has been redone thousands of times. But the story, as told by Tolstoy, is magnificent. Tolstoy and Flaubert (with Madame Bovary), writing around the same period (mid-19th century) invent this kind of novelistic character and set a standard that opened up the novel to realism about sex and marriage and pioneered the use of novels to open up discussion of gender relations.

Answer 3

it's really good but it's long. If you've read or heard of War and Peace by the same author then you know what i mean. It's an equally lengthy read. I paid more attention to the romance element of it than the actual historic significance, but I like history too so I paid attention to that too. I'd look up a plot summary or something like that because it would take forever to even try and give you a decent hint to what it's about.

Answer 4

Reality is: Tragic ending, love story doomed from her choosing adultery and his fathering her child. She caused her husband's grief, herself endless pain and sorrow and her high-fluting love affair with a lustful stallion of a guy was terribly sad. Jude Law her religious loveless husband was far more a stability factor in her life than her reckless suitor who filled her craving for emotional affection/connection/lust, etc. I loved Keira Knightley in her role and the drama surpassed the ordinary...for the true value of what it's worth:
It exemplified the truth according to the Ten Commandments and the tragedy that comes with breaking them:
Just as King David sinned with Bathsheba and had her husband murdered in the war, their child was lost. It was a tragedy that caused him to sin: The reason was that he lusted after Bathsheba as she publicly bathed so all of her nakedness/skin was showing. Oh well, such is life: A Great Skin Flick.

Answer 5

Its an excellent story, and i dont want to give any of the story plot away, or i might ruin the story for you. bettyk

Answer 6

Go on the internet and see if you can get your answer. Good luck and good
reading. : }