Name: Britney Shaw Major Works Data Sheet This form must be typed. Title of the Work: Resurrection Author: Leo Tolstoy Date of Publication: 1994 (1899) Genre: Novel Historical information about the Setting: In the novel, the setting takes place in Moscow, Russia’s largest city, during the late 1800s. In this time period, there was a growing amount of unmarried soldiers. As a result, the appeal for prostitutes flourished. The monarchs all had different opinions on prostitution. Some believed that prostitution should be eradicated; yet some monarchs thought that it was not a crime. In the end, prostitution was legalized and the industry grew rapidly. As a result of the setting, one of the main themes in the novel is prostitution. Plot …show more content…
One of his methods, that differentiate his work with other novels, is by including fragments of French into the story. Throughout the novel, Tolstoy will occasionally add French sayings to the story when the setting is one with the upper class or when there is a secret that is to be discussed. Whenever Tolstoy uses French in the story, the reader is able to identify that it is the upper class men who are speaking. Not only that, the French sayings can also signal secrets that are spoken in French so others will not understand. Including French into the story enables the reader to feel as though it truly is spoken in secret or with the upper class. Another essential technique Tolstoy uses is a third person narrative. This narrative allows the audience to see all points of view and not just the perspective of one person. For instance, if the story were written in first person narrative, we would only see Nekhlyudov’s point of view. This would be untrustworthy because Nekhlyudov’s thoughts may not be true. By using the third person narrative, the readers are able to see all points of view and are able to decide themselves without being influenced by only one person’s thoughts and ideas. Not only that, another method used is symbolism. The symbolism that is used shows the audience how the past was like as told in the story. For instance, one of the main symbols in the story was the money that Dmitry handed to Maslova. This symbolism showed how much money was worth back in the day. Not only that, during that time, the money was able to clear all problems and guilt. Along with that, another technique used was the setting that Tolstoy used. Tolstoy used the setting in order to prove a point and the setting also allowed the audience to compare the different settings. In the beginning of the novel, Tolstoy illustrates a gorgeous and beautiful scene and immediately switches the scene to
He abandons omniscience, the story’s main narration style, and writes in the first-person: “The hero of my story, whom I love with all my heart and soul, whom I have attempted to portray in all his beauty and who has always been, is now and always will be supremely magnificent, is truth” (Tolstoy 109 [1986]). Unlike many literary works, there is no analysis needed in order to uncover Tolstoy’s primary message — he directly expresses to readers that truth is the center of the text. Essentially, the story’s characters, settings, and plot are merely vehicles Tolstoy manipulates to bring him to this final sentence where the central theme is revealed; everything in the piece ties back to the concept and central theme of truth. Some might say this ending degrades the story’s literary appeal because it does not allow for a clean resolution, but in many ways, this proclamation serves as the story’s climax. In this moment, the veil of fiction is lifted away from the reader’s eyes and only then can they see the story clearly.
Chopin’s “The Storm” is written in third-person objective point of view. The narrator is not involved with the characters in any way, just telling the story as it happened. The narrator is also omniscient which makes the point of view a normal, usual telling of the story. Chopin uses this to emphasize the uniqueness of her setting. It is also interesting to know how characters feel that the reader hasn’t even been introduced to yet in the story. Clarisse, Alcee Laballiere’s wife was not even in the main events of the story and yet we know that “their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forego for a while” (Chopin 116). Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake” is written fro the point of view of the main character of the story. This is important because the reader needs to feel the fear and see the murkiness of the lake through the eyes of a participant in the story. “I suddenly felt a rush of joy and vindication: the son of a bitch was alive! Just as quickly, my bowels turned to ice” (Boyle 133).
Bernstein, Laurie. Sonia's Daughter's: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Kate Chopin has style that makes her work seem more like a story told in person just for the reader than one written in a book to a diverse audience of potential readers. She tends to go into great detail over the thoughts and actions of characters, giving the reader insight they would not normally have, almost as if they were mind readers witnessing the event. When Chopin describes the situations her characters are in, she tends to utilize short, to the point sentences that are the bare minimum to cover said situation, followed by a very long sentence that expands upon the first. She also tends to use short sentences in quick succession to illustrate a point. Often these are character realizations, and it feels like a short train of thought leading to a conclusion within the character's mind. These sections usually use anaphora, the repetition pounding the ideas into the reader's head. As stated before, Chopin describes most everything in great detail. Her choice of words goes between passive observation and strong opinion. When describing scenery, she might describe the colors and situation of it, or she may become excited and give a fervent description polluted by the feelings of Edna, the main character. These changes in diction add to the story, and the reader is no longer a reader yet again. Instead, this style allows us to feel changes in the mood of the characters. Rather than being told “He was happy”, “He was passionate”, “He was apathetic”, the reader feels like they are entering the scene and tasting the mood themselves. This change in diction also tends to accompany a change in tone. In the beginning of the story, the tone was one of anticipation, as a patient child waiting for a caterpillar to ...
Since the story was written in the third person objective, it is easier for the reader to remain objective while analyzing the story. If we one were to hear the story from on of the character’s point of view, the retelling of the story would be clouded with various em...
First of all the third person narrative is used in literature to present a narration from a completely neutral point of view. Common with most fictional entries, this narration style gives the author of a piece of writing an individual voice in the work he creates. Such an author does not just rely on what he /her characters say, he/she actively becomes instrumental to them actually saying or doing them.
He uses the characters in the story to represent the middle and upper class and how they only represent greed, selfishness, and artificial emotions. They are essentially useless in the way that they are illustrated by Tolstoy. The details of the funeral at Ivan’s house at the beginning of the story is meant to demonstrate the materialism that the characters revolve around from the furniture that is so particularly described to the fake mannerisms the characters show to Ivan’s wife. The only character that falls out of this category is the peasant that stays with Ivan at the end of his life. The peasant is the only one who understands what Ivan is going through because he knows that no one is immortal and death is inevitable. He is not caught up in the false ideals that the upper class has made up for themselves. This man helps Ivan understand the truth about life and how he has been living it wrong all
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Throughout the novel, the reader witnesses the trials of Levin's life and his response to them. Unlike Flaubert, Tolstoy reveals Levin in a manner
Tolstoy gives us a lifelike representation in Anna Karenina by creating characters, both major and minor, that contribute to the sense of realism. The most striking feature of Tolstoy's minor characters is that although they may only appear briefly, they still possess a sense of lifelikeness. When a character is introduced, Tolstoy provides the reader with details of the characters appearance and actions that give a sense of realism. For example, the waiter that Stiva and Levin encounter at their dinner, although a flat character is definitely presented in a manner which allows him to have a sense of lifelikeness and fullness.
The Oblonsky family of Moscow is under a large amount of stress due to adultery. Dolly Oblonskaya has found out her husband, Stiva, is having an affair with their children’s former governess, and seriously considers divorcing him. Stiva is slightly regretful, but is none the less trying to maintain his composure. Stiva’s sister Anna Karenina arrives at the Oblonsky estate to act as a mediator.
The setting for this novel was a constantly shifting one. Taking place during what seems to be the Late Industrial Revolution and the high of the British Empire, the era is portrayed amongst influential Englishmen, the value of the pound, the presence of steamers, railroads, ferries, and a European globe.
This novel was written in the Victorian Era, a time when society faces many social difficulties such as industrialization, prostitu...
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian author, one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy was born at Yasnya Polyana, in Tula Province, the fourth of five children. His parents died when he was young, and he was brought up by relatives. In 1844 Tolstoy started to study law and oriental languages at Kazan University, but he never earned a degree. Dissatisfied with the standard of education, he returned in the middle of his studies back to Yasnaya Polyana, and then spent much of his time in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
With that being said, it is even more important to get the theme across and the atmosphere along with the tone of the story in such a short amount of time. In the short story unit, I came across a short story by Kate Chopin called The Story of an Hour (Chopin 236). This story is about how a women finds out that her husband has been killed in an accident and the author leads us to believe that she is so heartbroken that her own heart gives way and she dies. But in the reality of it I believe she died of not only the death of her husband but because of the excitement of finally being free of her husband. A large sum of the story is spent describing the setting of the story. For example after she was informed of her husbands passing the author says, “ There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach her soul” (Chopin 236). This passage makes the reader feel as if the women is extremely shocked and very hurt by the passing of her husband, the way the setting is describes set the tone as a sad one and the atmosphere is as-well. The setting shows the theme that the women is very emotional over her husbands death, wether you as the reader believe it be excited emotions or depressed ones, they are still overwhelming emotions that