I think Anna's story in Anna Karenina is very much NOT about romantic love at all (even though every movie ever made on the subject tries to sell it that way), because I think Tolstoy was really showing us the "happy ending love story" with Kitty and Levin, who really know and love each other, whereas Vronsky and Anna are swept away by sexual passion (which, lord knows, poor Anna, having more or less been sold into marriage, deserved!) But Vronsky is not the man she thinks he is at all and therein lies her tragedy!
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2007-09-27 01:15 pm (UTC)