Anna Karenina

Insights in “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Tula Province, Russia. Tolstoy wrote his first novel in the 1860s titled “War and Peace.” In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best-known novels, “Anna Karenina.” He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s. One of his most successful later works was “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” Tolstoy was the youngest of four boys. When his mom died in 1843 his cousin began to take care of them.…

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes…

Malala Yousafzai. A book is assigned a genre once written, giving it a general topic description. The books specifically noted throughout Malala’s childhood included “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking, “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, and the classic novel “The Wizard of Oz” by Jane Austen. These novels, read by Malala include a variety of genres including, popular science, adventure, realism, and fantasy fiction. Through reading such a variety of books,…

From reading Rich’s article you can observe Rich focusing on Bronte's biography, like biographical criticism. She considers how the text is like other Romance and gothic texts such as Persuasion, Middlemarch, and Jude the Obscure, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Portrait of a Lady, and Wuthering Heights (469). Rich emphasizes Jane Eyre pursuit for love, but more so, her pursuit for a awareness of being appreciated, of fitting-in more so than romantic love. Therefore Jane says to Helen Burns,…

females? Books, tv shows, and movies have contributed to perpetuate women into a world of submission. Domesticity, sexuality, and incapability of rational thinking are the usual roles to which females have been conditioned. Well-known classics as Anna Karenina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s depict mediocre ambitions in life and victimization to prejudice. Women have been stereotyped like that for centuries. However, literature and media have turned lately to a very different facet of females: their…

In this essay, I will discuss the ontology of fictional characters and events. At first glance, such a topic may seem absurd. Fiction is often understood as something fabricated by the imagination, separating itself from reality. However, does this mean that fictional characters and events cannot exist? I wish to explore this topic, looking at certain aspects of fiction, such as how fictional objects can actually exist, how one may even discuss the fictional, and characters as literary artefacts…

about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters and truth telling” (87). In other words, writers learn how to craft prose by reading the works of others. Influential novels include Leo Tolstoy’s twisted Anna Karenina, William Faulkner’s multi-narrative story The Sound and the Fury, Nathaniel Hawthorne 's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter and so on. The enrichments experienced from reading novels, short tales or even poetry are unlike any other. A writer…

In order to truly understand human society as it exists today, it is first necessary to be able to distinguish between all of the variables that culminated to yield the present. For, if even one condition was to vacillate, the whole outcome of human development could have been drastically different. The man undertaking the arduous task of trying to classify and decipher human history is Jared Diamond, who, through his work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is able to show just how interconnected the…

publication it was not radically modern. The stream of consciousness, particularly visible in Peter Walsh’s reflections after leaving Clarissa’s home4, is not unique nor innovative. In fact, Leo Tolstoy in 1878 uses the exact same technique in Anna Karenina. However, Mrs Dalloway, being shorter, more Westernized and aesthetically pleasing, turned out to be the one entering the…

She gets the love of nature from her father, she 's connected to all things that are alive; people and animals alike. Her father likes to read the classics and Malala grew up with books like Anna Karenina and Pride and Prejudice. Her father adored her and she had a very close relationship with her paternal grandfather. The biggest aspect that made Malala who she is, was that her father blessed her birth the same way a son would be born; to show…