Essay Archive - Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
By examining the character list, one immediately notices the value
Tolstoy places on character. With one hundred and forty named characters and
several other unnamed characters, Tolstoy places his central focus in Anna
Karenina on the characters. He uses their actions and behavior to develop the
plot and exemplify the major themes of the novel. In contrast to Flaubert's
Madame Bovary, Tolstoy wishes to examine life as it really is. Both novels have
relationships and adultery as a central theme. However, Tolstoy gives us a much
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