Anna Karenina: A Critical Essay Review

Anna Karenina: a Critical Essay Review
Upon reading the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy one must undoubtedly notice that there are a great many pages and thus a great many bits of detail and facets of the storyline. The novel in and of itself is essentially two separate novels with two unique plot lines and two distinctive casts of characters, but in fact intermingled and united together. In comprehending the very mass of the novel itself and considering every detail individually, one may wonder what some particular scenes contribute to the overall moral and theme of the work itself? Some scenes exist within the body that one thinks will contribute to the rising action or the conflict, but in fact nothing comes of these scenes. They are simply there for the author’s own benefit it seems. That is exactly the question that Matthew Arnold is asking in his critical essay of Anna Karenina.
Arnold queries in the opening of his essay if certain episodes such as Levin’s...