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A paper which considers the dichotomy between societal custom and individual choice in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, with specific reference to the author's views on sexuality, marriage and celibacy. Bibliography lists 2 sources
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as expressed in the text are carried to their logical conclusion, this would mean the extinction of the human race. However, as Tolstoy himself points out in The Lesson of
the Kreutzer Sonata, this is in fact not only the most rational development for the human race as a whole, but also the one which most befits a true reading
of the meaning of Christianity, despite the conflict which it sets up. Tolstoy explains in considerable detail his views of the contemporary social climate as regards morality and sexuality, as
expressed in the text. He asserts that there is too great a focus on the sexual aspect of human life, not merely in the sense of licentiousness and immorality, but
with regard to marriage and parenting itself. His recommendation that men take
equal responsibility for their sexual behaviour, rather than blaming women for being temptresses, is a reasonable one to make in terms of a society where sexual activity on the part
of men is mostly tacitly condoned, whereas in women it is a matter for castigation and social ostracism. Similarly, his view that taking exercise for its own sake is simply
playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a community to make visits to the gymnasium unnecessary if one
wants to become fit and healthy. He also notes that because of the emphasis on romantic love, the concept of infidelity is becoming far too acceptable in modern society: it
is certainly the case that by the time Tolstoy was writing, the medieval concept of romance, with its stress on chastity, humility and honour, had given way to romance as
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