Marriage & Manliness in Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”

By |2022-12-13T14:27:19-06:00December 12th, 2022|Categories: Leo Tolstoy, Literature, Marriage|

Marriage for Tolstoy’s heroic men is not the be-all and end-all of a life well lived. Romantic love compromises marriage, to the detriment of both women and men. The well-married are good at the prosaic love of family life, not just falling in love. They find romance and fulfillment in joyfully executing the necessities of [...]