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An 18 page paper looking at these two works in terms of their portrayal of the roles of women in upper-class nineteenth-century Russian society. The paper concludes that if women let society dictate their course of action, no one benefits, and everyone suffers. Bibliography lists four sources.
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a nineteenth-century male author. Yet in Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Russian author Leo Tolstoy brilliantly shows what happens when women are pressed into cookie-cutter social
roles they do not fit, where they are either undervalued or misunderstood. Sometimes they turn upon the men in their lives; sometimes they turn upon society; and tragically, they all
too often turn upon themselves. Leo Tolstoy, the son of a Russian aristocrat, was born in 1828 on his familys estate, Yasnaya Polyana, near Moscow. His mother died
when he was not yet two; his father, when Leo was eight (Rowe, 2-3). He was raised by a series of aunts and educated by private tutors. Beyond any doubt
he was a brilliant child, but strangely, did not do well at his studies; his biographer William Rowe observes that nonetheless "Leo pursued a wide variety of ideas with remarkable
intensity for a boy of eleven or twelve. He thought deeply about the concept of eternity and the possibility of reincarnation. . . . In [his book] Trochestvo (Boyhood) he
later described his practice of whirling around suddenly to catch emptiness unawares -- because external objects, owing their existence to his consciousness, had presumably vanished when he stopped paying attention
to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the
University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quickly switched to law, but did poorly at that too. During college he seemed much more intent on pursuing a vigorous
program of both mental and physical exercise, coupling strenuous activity with a voracious program of fiction-reading. He left school without graduating after contracting, predictably, gonorrhea (Rowe, 4). Returning to the
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