Monday, October 14, 2013

Links and explanation

1/ Social network    The reason I chose this website is because Anna is a very sociable lady in the upper classes, facebook would help her contact others quickly, for example, she can contact Vronsky and decide where to go and what time they meet each other. Also Anna can post on the facebook to call on the people who also want to fight with Russian Society at that time.
2/  Fashion    Anna likes dress herself in absolute fashion. She is elegant, and always understand in her dress. She would be glad to know the new fashion or her photos are on the website.

3/ Travel information     In the story, Anna travels a lot between St. Petersburg and Moscow, also, she goes out with Vronsky and lived for a while, she definitely needs information about travelling.

4/ Toys buying     Anna really love her child sergei, the only reason that causes she cannot divorce the marriage is because her husband uses Sergei to threaten her. She is deeply devoted to her family and children, as we see when she sneaks back into her former home to visit her son on his birthday, I believe toys are the great gifts she wants for her children.

5/ Help others     Anna has a warm heart, Anna believes in love—not only love between lovers but family love and friendships as well, as we can see from her devotion to her son, her honest efforts to reconcile Stiva and Dolly Oblonsky in their marital troubles, and her warm reception of Dolly at her country home. I think she will be glad to help others through internet, also she as a royal member, won't be hard to solve tiny problem.

Anna Karenina --- Biography

       "The power of love to make her several times to break through the barriers of the secular, to seek his own happiness, but a sense of selfishness and guilt immediately went to her side, her heart was filled with contradictions and pain."

            Anna is one of two protagonists in the novel. The most prominent qualities are her passionate spirite and determination to live life on her own term. She dares to face the St. Petersburg high society and refuses the exile to which she has been condemned. She used her whole life for seeking the freedom and happiness through love. She rejects Karenin’s request that she stay with him simply to maintain outward appearances of an intact marriage and family. She has her own idea and brave enough to try to stay with Vronsky, unlike many other the classes ladies, they live as prostitutes. 
            But she also pushed herself into death, she depends on love as the only reason for her living, when she feels the love has gone from her lover, she gets in desperation, which caused her mental illness, and she kills herself by train.
            As I said, Anna is one of two protagonists in the novel, there is a comparison between her and Konstantin Levin, they both in love but have the different ending.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

"Anna Karenina" Book Summary


            Anna Karenina married with a cold and passionless government official, Alexei Karenin, when she was seventeen. Alexei Karenin was civil to everyone and makes no waves, also to his wife. Anna Karenina had a eight-year long boring marriage life with her husband, until she went to Moscow for her brother's affair, she met a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky.
         Count Vronsky was the turning point of Anna's life, Anna started to find the truth and meaning in her life. She fell deeply in love with Vronsky. But this kind of forbidden love got Anna into awkward situation. At last, the pressure from the classes, the cold shoulder from her lover pushed her into death.
         
          Set against this tragedy is the story of Konstatin Levin. While Anna looked for happiness through love, Levis embarked on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. By these two central plots, Tolstoy represented nineteenth-century Russian society.