![]() The novel deals with the conflict of the adulteress who has broken a human and societal code but still gains sympathy from the author and the readers. Eventually, frustrated with burning jealously and insecurity, Anna commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train. With time, her jealousy thrives more, and she becomes more demanding, in doing so, only driving him further away. As time passes, Anna becomes more demanding of her lover and feels out of desperation that she will lose her lover. With heightened sexuality arises insecurity of love. ![]() The affair diminishes into mere sensuality of relationship, most probably due to its illicit nature. She falls in love with another man who presents her with the passions of life that marriage failed to provide. Overall, the story of Anna Karenina is the story of a woman in her twenties who is married to a staunch, boring man and leads a dull life. Tolstoy tried to portray that marriage is a mediator of the social, familial, religious, and transcendental realms. The problem of non-adherence to the conventional role of a married woman becomes a paradigm for the analysis of the problems that are created in interrelated patterns. The problem of adultery of married women gained importance in nineteenth-century novels (for example, Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert). Tolstoy, from the very beginning of the novel, is empathetic towards Anna even though he accepts her conduct as sinful, and includes an image of familial life that could prevent it. Anna Karenina is a treatise of conflict between the novel’s commiseration for both the adulterer and the family. In the ever-memorable epic of a woman in Russian society, trying to achieve self-will, Anna Karenina, is an exemplification of conflicts between the accepted and unaccepted social norms.
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