The work tells the story that Anna, a noble woman, pursues love and happiness, but encounters karenin's hypocrisy, Lenski's indifference and selfishness, and finally commits suicide on the railway track and stands dead.

Levin, the owner of the manor, opposed the private ownership of land, resisted the capitalist system and sympathized with the poor peasants, but he could not get rid of the aristocratic habits and fell into an unavoidable contradiction. Contradictory period, contradictory system, contradictory characters and contradictory psychology make the book bumpy in the whirlpool of contradictions. This novel is a portrayal of the tense and fearful Russian society in the transitional period between the old and the new.

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In this conformist mainstream society, if you want to do something unconventional and go upstream, then you should be prepared to be an enemy of the world. In the upper-class circle where everyone abides by the rules, and in the unchangeable aristocratic habits, Anna's behavior is understandable and has become a singular point discussed and spurned by the whole circle.

In fact, in the upper-class circles, everyone has his own playboy and secrets, but he will not touch the popular moral bottom line and act within that line. Once they find that they touched it, they will stop immediately. But Anna just lived too seriously and thoroughly, abandoned all her courage and ran for love, which finally led to a shameless stigma. When she fought against the world to subdue Lenski, Lenski didn't regard her as the whole world. This is her sorrow, and it is also the sorrow of a woman who only lives in love.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Anna karenin