Consequences Of Progress Over Time Tolstoy

progress over time Tolstoy also displays more severe consequences resulting from immoral actions. Tolstoy shows his understanding of how desire and human nature go hand in hand based on 3 characters, Stiva, Anna, and Vronksy. Stiva’s infidelity is the epitome of the relationship between desire and human nature. Rather than accepting fault for his affair he constantly asks his wife what he’d done wrong and acts ignorant to his actions (Tolstoy 11). Tolstoy shows this relationship further in the way he describes the way Anna yearns for Vronsky, while Vronsky covets Anna,while leading up to the affair. Tolstoy narrows this relationship down to specific details between the characters, from how they constantly think about each other before the affair,
In the novel, Pozdnyshev is riding on a train and overhears passengers discussing the right to marry someone for love over arranged marriages. He makes his way into the conversation and begins the novel begins to give us a look into Pozdnyshev’s past with is spouse (Tolstoy 142 ). According to the text, he had been married to his wife for only a few years and already had five children with her. After a certain amount of time he began to despise her because she was instructed by her doctors to use contraceptives (Tolstoy 168). He explains that the marriage was difficult and that their children became a burden since they changed the lives of he and his wife permanently. He discusses how the romantic spark between his wife and himself had faded early, if it had ever existed and that the presence of children had made them even more jaded towards one another (Tolstoy 163). They constantly fought and Pozdnyshev began to see his wife in a very negative light, particularly after she was instructed by their doctor to no longer breast feed, which he saw as her choice rather than medical instruction (Tolstoy 161). Pozdnyshev was jealous of men who are welcomed into their homes and enjoy their personal and after examining behavior towards the children and
He shows these gradual increases in time through his characters, how he describes their behavior or thoughts, how they suffer at the hands of their own demise, and what points or symbols he emphasizes to his audience. He provides his readers the opportunity to reflect upon his characters’ struggle with their desires and the consequences of their actions. Their fall to desire and temptation provides us as Tolstoy’s audience, as well as the other characters, with lessons about responsibility, acceptance of our human nature, and prioritizing our morality before our desires. These lessons are intended to be a moral model of how we should live in order not let our base instincts supersede our humanity. Tolstoy implores us to critically asses the choices we make, the ideas we entertain, and the desires we pursuit in order to make certain that our intentions are morally justified and not merely for selfish gain or