![]() ![]() In their case, the Prince thinks Levin is an upstanding man and finds Vronsky lacking in gravitas while the Princess is taken by Vronsky's charms and thinks Levin is full of pride. In Prince and Princess Shcherbatsky's desire to facilitate a successful match between Vronsky and their youngest daughter, we begin to understand more about how parents view their children in this society. ![]() How Stiva approaches his wife Dolly after she has discovered his affair tells us a great deal not only about these two, but also about the culture in which they live and what is considered accepted practice. It is through this dynamic lens of familial commitment that we begin to take a close look at each of the characters we meet. We meet the Oblonskys struggling with the aftermath of infidelity the Shcherbatskys attempting to marry off the eligible Kitty with varied success Levin's interesting family dynamic with his brothers Vronsky's apparent disdain for family life and his mother Anna Karenina's hollow and unfulfilling marriage to the distant Karenin. It's such a tangled web, it's nearly impossible to keep the families and characters in order and figure out how they are related. Suddenly, we become flies on the walls in the homes of a host of unhappy families, all of which are mired in some crisis of misunderstanding or misconnection. The author says, to begin, "All happy families are alike each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The very first sentence of Count Leo Tolstoy's burgeoning novel of ideas establishes the framework of family as a way to read, question and understand the complex interrelationships between the characters and the actions they take. The wife had found out that the husband was having an affair with their former French governess, and had announced to the husband that she could not live in the same house with him." - from Anna Karenina All was confusion in the Oblonskys' house. "All happy families are alike each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ![]()
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