First of all, different origins and personalities have planted tragic seeds for Anna and karenin's marriage. "karenin was an orphan since he was a child, and his father can't remember. His mother was only ten years old when she died, and his property was very small. His uncle is a big official and raised karenin and his brother. " It is conceivable that karenin, who was born as an orphan, suffered what kind of supercilious look and contempt in the materialistic and money-oriented Russian upper class. He also developed a withdrawn and stubborn character because he lacked the love of his parents since childhood.
The selfishness of love caused the love tragedy of Anna and Lenski.
When Anna went to Moscow to mediate a dispute between her brother and sister-in-law, she met Lenski, a living specimen of a playboy in Petersburg's upper class, at the station, and they were immediately attracted by each other: "He apologized and was about to walk into the carriage, when suddenly he felt he had to look at her again. That's not because she is beautiful, nor because of the charm and charm of her whole body, but because when she passed by him, her lovely face showed an unusually kind and gentle expression. He turned to see her, and she turned to him. Her shiny gray eyes, hidden under thick eyelashes, looked at his face in a friendly way. As if to identify him. In this brief glance, Fu Lenski found a repressed anger on her face. Through her sparkling eyes and smiling lips, it seemed to be full of excess youth, and suddenly emerged from the flash of her eyes and involuntary smile. She deliberately put away the brilliance in her eyes, but she flashed in her faint smile against her will. " Anna, who is passionate about love, met Lenski, who is elegant, enthusiastic and full of life, at the station. The fire of love buried deep in her heart finally broke out irresistibly, and the balance of her love tilted. Her husband karenin, who had a different personality from her, became more vulgar in her eyes. She thought her husband was mean: "She looks like a cold-blooded animal, with black and white muddy dead fish embedded in her face with muscle paralysis." Although they were a little coquettish with Fu Lenski at the beginning of their love, he initially pursued Anna mainly to satisfy his vanity, but Anna's charming charm attracted him: "Pursuing a noble lady in the upper class will undoubtedly double his worth." However, with the increase of their meeting times, especially the "happiness flash" on Anna's face, which she tried to restrain with reason but was difficult to bind, inspired his sincere love for Anna. Some orthodox critics call Anna a "slut". We can't agree with this view. She is different from Pan Jinlian and not Emma. Although her marriage with karenin was a loveless one maintained only by reason, at first she wanted to continue. After seeing Fu Lenski and feeling for him, she tried to get rid of it with her family, husband, son and reputation, but there was nothing she could do. Because true love cannot be stopped by any force. True love from the heart is like a flood that burst its banks in the end. After a hard ideological struggle, Anna broke through many obstacles and bravely threw herself into Lenski's arms. She finally tasted the "happiness of love" that she had never experienced in her eight-year marriage. Anna, immersed in love and happiness, "presents a kind of short-lived beauty that only women in love can have. Everything is displayed on her face: distinct dimples on her cheeks and chin, beautiful lines on her lips, a rippling smile on her face, flashing light in her eyes, elegant and flexible movements and sweet and round voice". In a word, compared with the "thin, gaunt and wrinkled" sister-in-law Tao Li who lives in a loveless marriage, Anna has become "fuller and more gorgeous". But this kind of happiness immersed in love is thrilling and short-lived. Romantic and imaginative temperament determines that their love cannot last long. Especially after Lenski's passion, what he got was no longer love, but emptiness. "She is still very beautiful, but now he appreciates her beauty, which is completely different from before. Now there is nothing mysterious about his feelings for her, so although her beauty fascinates him more than before, it also makes him feel unhappy. " His unhappiness was also transmitted to Anna. When Anna gave up her happiness, there was a psychological imbalance caused by gains and losses. This psychological imbalance has accumulated in her mind, making Anna, who was originally imaginative and sensitive, a little nervous. She always wants to assure Lenski that he still loves her as before, and only by his love can she live. This reminds us of Zijun in Lu Xun's Regret for the Past. Zijun bravely broke through the barriers of feudal ethics and married Juansheng, whom he loved. However, after the hard-won love made her immersed in an unstable and unsafe state, she repeatedly asked Juansheng to repeat the embarrassing proposal scene, which led to Juansheng's disgust. Finally, she said "I don't love you anymore", which violated his sincerity, thus pushing the lovelorn Zijun to the extreme. When God created man, he also gave us the right to love. Love is indispensable in life, but it is not the only one. As a nobleman, Anna doesn't understand the truth that "one can't live without love, but only love is absolutely impossible". She said to Lenski and herself more than once, "For you and me, the important thing is whether we love each other or not, and nothing else needs to be considered." . All we want is love. Love a person is not to possess him, but to make him happy. Anna's sensitive and stubborn personality makes her show unprecedented selfishness and possessiveness in love. Her love for Lenski is crazy and desperate. As romain rolland said, "Anna karenin's love is strong, emotional and bossy." Anna's beauty has a demonic charm. The flashing red light on her face is not a happy red light, but a terrible red light, which reminds people of a fire in the dark. Anna's love for Lenski is like a hungry person getting food. This selfishness and possessiveness make Anna, who was originally cheerful and lively, paranoid, surly, selfish, grumpy, suspicious, fearful and jealous. She thinks that if you love Lenski, you should have him completely, and Lenski is not allowed to have the space and right to move freely. "Florence Jean came back from dinner with friends a little late, and Anna became very depressed and uncomfortable." And Fu Lenski, as a man, especially a playboy who has been in and out of Petersburg society since he was a child, can't lie dormant in the love nest painstakingly built by the two of them and turn a blind eye to the outside world. He still has his own life and career. I can sacrifice everything for her, but I can't sacrifice my manly independence. Anna's possessiveness, selfishness and paranoia in love are the decisive factors that lead to her love tragedy with Lenski. As Anna said before she died, "I am more and more passionate and selfish in love, but he is more and more indifferent." That's why we broke up. I pinned everything on him. I asked him to pay more for me, but he became more and more alienated from me. "
Her paranoia in love eventually developed to the point where she could not extricate herself. Lenski had just left home when Anna wrote and sent a telegram, and then she couldn't help following him. As a result, she committed suicide by lying on the track under the frustration of her imaginary opponent, Miss Sorokina. Even her suicide reflects her selfishness and abnormality in love: "Death is now the only means to urge him to restore his love for her, punish him, and let the devil inside her win the battle with him". Even in the last sentence, she said to Florence with mortal determination, "You, you will regret it." It also exposed her selfishness and revenge in love. Her death is not so much despair of love as revenge for the contradiction between the desire for complete possession and the desire to love again. Because she thinks that only when she dies will she get back her regrets and regrets from Lenski. Anna's love is passionate, persistent, desperate and even crazy. She exchanged everything for love, including her husband, son, reputation and even life. This reminds us of China's modern playwright Cao Yu's Fan Yi in Thunderstorm: "Love is like a fire, which can melt you;" Hate is like fire, which can burn you to ashes. Vasiliev, a famous Bulgarian scholar, said in his "On Love": "Those who are frustrated in love not only hate the object of their feelings, but also love him. This split of consciousness may lead to psychological disorder. "This kind of insanity made Anna commit suicide in exchange for Lenski's love and revenge. Her self-destruction did achieve her goal: "He was almost insane and unconscious as a dead man. The doctor said it was a complete collapse, and then it was a little crazy. "He used to be full of energy, but now," his face, which looks old after vicissitudes of life, is like a fossil. He hasn't said a word to anyone for six weeks. "Later, when the Serbian war broke out, he joined the army and took a cavalry to the battlefield at his own expense for the rest of his life:" Nothing in life makes me happy. " "Now I don't care about life and death. I am glad to have the opportunity to give my life-a life that I think is not only redundant but also simply annoying. As a person, I am a loser. "In short, through the above analysis, we believe that Anna's tragedy of marriage and love is inseparable from the social environment at that time, but it is mainly caused by her personality. Therefore, it is not enough for us to regard Anna's tragedy as a social tragedy. Of course, we cannot regard karenin and Fu Lenski as the culprits of Anna's tragedy. Aren't they the victims of this tragedy?