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This 4 page paper chronicles the development of the literary heroine through the ages, profiling the characters of Anna Karenina, Sarah(French Lieutenant's Woman), Nora (The Doll's House) and Maria (Maria Nef). Bibliographpy lists 3 sources.
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female characters have also changed. In fact, one can trace the changes through a careful analysis of such characters as Anna Karenina, Emma (Madam Bovary), Nora (Dolls House) and Sarah
(French Lieutenants Woman). Anna Karenina offered the world a revealing look at the powerful need for love and happiness even when it seems to go against societys rules.
In this story, by Tolstoy, the novels main heroine, Anna, has renounced an emotionally unfulfilling marriage to have an affair with a man who stirs her passions. However, because of
the day and age in which it was set and the setting, Anna would be trapped in a situation which would ultimately doom her. "And the candle by which
she had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in
darkness, flickered, grew dim, and went out forever"(Tolstoy 816). Women in Annas day were restrained and limited to the confines of
their male dominated lives. They married well but not often for love. This is what is depicted in the tragic outcome of Annas tale. She realizes that love means more
than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman caught in adultery could
be jailed in those days. Anna took a great risk when she fell in love and acted upon that love for Vronsky.
Emma in Madam Bovary fared a similar fate as Anna. Women were depicted as vacuous creatures who read too many romance novels and began to act them out in real
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