If we compare anna karenine and Emma, we will find that there are many similarities between them. They all have a strong desire to get rid of or change their own situation, and have a violent conflict with social reality. They all died of suicide (lying on the track and taking poison); There is a touch of romance in the sexual
cases of these two characters, and this romance and the harshness of social life constitute irony: the external factors that lead to their destruction are the so-called "extramarital
love" or self-indulgence. However, the apparent similarity between the two characters can't < P > conceal their great differences.
First of all, Anna's death is more from her own. At least, from the perspective of social reality, the pressure on Anna is far less than Emma's
. In other words, Anna's death is mainly due to the boredom slowly cultivated and accumulated in her heart, which is the emptiness and despair that can't be dispelled after the passion disappears. The death of Emma < P > has more sociological factors. From the novel, Emma is at the end of her tether, but she doesn't have to die. At least, unlike Anna, Emma still had a strong desire to survive before she died. She finally chose to take
poison, and her inability to repay usury was a factor, and
exaggerated imagination of the disastrous consequences of bankruptcy also contributed to it. Whether it's Ruhr Dover or Leon, Emma was caught off guard by the ferocious, vulgar and cruel appearance of these
respectable and polite faces, and was in a state of panic and confusion for a while
. Therefore, Emma's death is not only due to the usury crisis, but mainly due to < P >' s lack of adequate psychological preparation for the truth suddenly revealed to her in social life. At the last time of
, Emma, who was at the end of her rope, humbly walked into the notary's house to borrow
money. She could even notice the decoration in the notary's restaurant-"This is the dining room", Emma thought, "Isn't this the restaurant I want?" "From
this, we can't attribute Anna's tragedy to the society at that time, just as we can't
attribute the responsibility of today's Anna-style extramarital affairs tragedy to today's society.
In fact, Anna was fearless in condemning the public opinion at that time. She ignored the existence of public opinion more than karenin and W. lenski, and even after the scandal was exposed, she deliberately went to social occasions to provoke. On the other hand, she also has enough money to live abroad or in the countryside to avoid the condemnation of public opinion in her hometown. Therefore, if she
and W lenski had real love, she and he could have a perfect
ending. So what led her to a dead end? It's her unwarranted suspicion
She clearly knows that W lenski is sincere to her, but she can't help being suspicious of him as long as there is any trouble
.
Secondly, Emma is a peasant girl from other provinces, lacking Anna's prominent
aristocratic status, rich social experience and sophisticated means of dealing with the world. For
her, "reality" is not a stage for performance in any way
but just a strange and sinister place that has not been fully recognized. Both Anna and Emma have a romantic longing for love, but the difference is that Anna clearly knows what she wants from the beginning, and she has only one purpose, that is, her love with W lenski. Emma's love object is illusory and hazy. The viscount's image is actually a symbol of Emma's long-cherished upper-class life. Just as lenski's love affair made karenin, Seryosha and the rich and peaceful life suddenly lose weight in Anna's eyes, Emma's married life suddenly became dull as soon as the viscount appeared. Anna doesn't know the vastness and depth of life, and she doesn't think that her personal business
is cheap in the male-dominated sunlight. She throws all her life strength into her love for
W lenski, and the curtain of tragedy begins.
At last, it was almost the same time. Emma was looking for money to pay her debts.
Anna of Tolstoy was also running anxiously. Emma was forced by the debt and took poison to kill herself
; Anna was driven by her inner passion and finally threw herself under the wheel. Emma's death
is a realistic way to die, while anna karenine, however, has the meaning of sacrifice. The former is life, while the latter is poetry. Harsh realism absolutely obeys reality, and it does not create
sublimation. It puts reality on paper and arranges it in a harmonious and orderly way. In this harmonious and orderly way, the true colors of life are exposed. From this, we can see that Mrs. Li Bao Fa < P > is more profound than anna karenine. Madame Bovary has
different levels of light and shade, swaying with different brightness of light, and the most wonderful thing is that these lights are
hard to find at first glance, just like Cezanne and Degas's paintings; Anna Karenina, like Manet's painting, is rebellious and passionate, but gentle and restrained.
How did you feel when you saw the heroine in lev tolstoy's
anna karenine finally commit suicide by lying on the track? Did you shed tears for
her? When you see Emma, the heroine in Flaubert's Bovary
Man, finally commit suicide by taking poison, what is your mood
? Do you condemn her and lament for her? The two women, although
they have different backgrounds, different status and different education, are
the same in their spiritual life-misfortune; The ending
is the same-death. Unfortunate love finally annihilated her
last desire for life.
Anna and Emma are both young and beautiful. At the same time, they are involved in love with other
men, and both of them have ruined their youth because of love. However, due to their different origins, status and social
times, their experiences and experiences are also different.
Emma was born in a well-to-do
peasant family in a rural area of other provinces in France. She was educated in a monastery in Rouen, loved reading novels full of waves, and had many unrealistic ideas about marriage and love. After she married Bovary, she thought Bovary was mediocre and incompetent, which could bring her happiness. So she was seduced and cheated by Rodolfo < P >, a veteran in love, and then had an affair with Leon, but there was no real relationship between the two sides. Finally, in order to pursue a happy life, she fell into the trap of a businessman < P > Le Le, was heavily in debt, unable to repay, and committed suicide by taking poison.
Anna was born in a noble family, and received a good education since childhood.
After that, her aunt decided to marry karenin, who was twenty years older than her.
In her married life, she became more and more disgusted with karenin, who was cold, mechanical and rigid, and only played with official documents for entertainment. She can't stand the suppressed family life without love. In order to pursue sincere love and freedom of marriage, she openly ran away from home and lived with her lover, W lenski. She lost everything: her beloved son, reputation and social status. At last, she was hostile and abandoned by the upper class, and fell into despair because of her lover's indifference to love, and committed suicide by lying on the track.
Anna and Emma are both tragic figures. However, due to the different times and countries where the writers live, as well as the different purposes and methods of creation, their tragedies have similarities, differences and similarities.
Madame Bovary's tragedy is the tragedy of an ordinary woman.
The author clearly points out that the cause of Emma's tragedy is the living society in which she was born-vulgar and monotonous environment in other provinces, false property
class morality, hypocritical bourgeois, etc., which forced Madame Bovary
to degenerate step by step and finally had to go to a dead end. For Anna Lai
, the hypocritical upper class and the ruthless bureaucracy abandoned her and
sanctioned her. This is the profound social root of their tragedy.
Although every scene of tragedy has its own
factors of the times and society, people often only pay attention to the oppression of the society and ignore personal factors in the evaluation of different opinions. It should be noted that the formation of tragedy is often
diffused and expanded because of the conflict between personal feelings and social rationality, and
strengthened because of the opposition between personal requirements arising from the development of the times and the general numbness of society.
Anna and Emma's love tragedy started with their unfortunate marriage
. However, they are both women with rich feelings
, and they can't bury their spiritual world forever
in this unfortunate marriage. Although the concept of wife has long died in their hearts, the concept of woman is always impacting their hearts.
Anna couldn't help marrying karenin, an icy bureaucratic machine, before she knew about love. When she was eager for love, eight years of cold family life made her understand that it was impossible to get love from her husband. In order to maintain the status of the upper-class society and the reputation of a chaste wife, Anna tries her best to suppress her restless love desire.
Whenever her love desire flashes, her self-awareness immediately becomes alert.
Her reason gathers the psychological energy in her perceptual consciousness and blocks her love desire back to her subconscious. However, Anna's "ego" is guiding the latent love desire, making it give vent in twists and turns: "When I can't love my husband, I will love my son". Anna and Karie
Ning have maintained a quiet husband and wife life for eight years, and won the reputation of a chaste wife in the upper class, but at the cost of losing their personality.
Anna, after all, is not Dalia who numbed herself in housework.
It is difficult for her to live a life of abstinence. Anna is not only beautiful, charming and full of vitality, but also "has a strong desire to live on her own", which doomed her quiet life in exchange for distorting human nature and gestated a crisis of rupture from the beginning.
"Her shining
gray eyes, which looked dark under thick eyelashes, stared at his face kindly and attentively ... In that short glance
, wronski had noticed that there was a repressed anger on her
face, passing between those sparkling eyes and the faint
smile that bent her lips ..."
what is "repressed anger"? That's the restless love desire in the subconscious. When we first met at the station, Anna's original
psychological balance began to tilt, and the internal conflict moved her
goal in life. When we met again at the dance, Anna's reason was overwhelmed by the torrent of passion with a little resistance. She boldly conveyed the burning passion to wronski with touching eyes and a soft smile.
This is the first call for resolute love from a repressed mind, a complete and true manifestation of a "living woman who needs love", and a desperate anti-
resistance of a mentally devastated aristocratic woman to
her own moral concepts and traditional consciousness. When the station met again, "she instinctively felt their terrible
approach", and her inner passion roared
like a raging snowstorm. The spiritual strength of her love desire pushed her to blink involuntarily
, and her longing for love inspired wronski
.
The passion rolling in from the bottom of my heart destroyed Anna's original values and made her see clearly the boredom and hypocrisy of her original life. The long-repressed pursuit and desire broke the "personality mask" that wrapped Anna for eight years, dismissed all concerns about interests, and encouraged her to shout out her long-buried heart in desperation: "When the time comes, I know I can't deceive myself any more. I am alive. < P > It's not my fault. God was born like me, and I want love. She publicly declared to karenin: "I love him, I am his mistress, I can't stand you, I am afraid of you, and I hate you", and then
threw herself into wronski's arms and publicly expressed her break with her husband.
Emma was born in a wealthy peasant family. In that aristocratic era, her father hoped that his only daughter would be educated by aristocrats. Since she was thirteen, Emma has been educated by monasteries. Emma, who came out of Xiu
Daoyuan, is charming and romantic, like a moon in the water and a flower in the mirror, serene and reserved, giving people a cold feeling.
She is slim and graceful, but she is not stained after the turbulent times. The pharmacist also praised "she is a
gifted woman, and it is not too much to be a county magistrate's wife". Unfortunately, she can only become Madame Bovary, which is Emma's sorrow. The place left by
God is as mediocre as a backwater.
The husband was originally "ignorant, ignorant and unpredictable". He
didn't understand art, love and opera. He was a vulgar person, especially with poor medical skills, and made a big joke to cure hippolyte's
foot. She hated him, and she hated him so deeply. She
doesn't love him. He is a chain around her neck. When a voice
condescends to say: You should love your husband. She was puzzled:
Who is she chaste for? Who on earth is she suffering for? This
kind of hypocritical marriage life was unbearable for her, and she began to look for another form of existence based on her
principle.
Although the reality makes her feel that the closer things are to daily life, the more afraid she is to think about it, but she still believes that there is a peaceful and happy Garden of Eden in the boundless
field without reality. Therefore, "in the depths of her soul, she has been expecting accidents", "like a sunken sailor" and "keeping her eyes wide open with despair" are still "looking for the trace of the white sail in the distance". She refused marriage and vulgarity. At first, she refused vulgarity in a romantic way, giving people a sense of otherworldly. But the vulgar and boring rural life in other provinces finally made her illusory emotional life fall into pure sensory communication. She was so depressed that she once wanted to dedicate her virginity to God and experience another kind of sacred happiness that Ling
was driven by secular love. As long as the spirit
obeys, people's troubles will no longer exist, but this thought
was only a flash. Because she always gets nothing when she calls for God's gift
without help, she feels cheated, so she cursed Charlie and God at the same time. In the end, she would rather
be a fallen woman cursed by everyone, and sink in sensual happiness than
be a good wife and mother praised by everyone.
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If the unfortunate marriage has made Anna and Emma suffer
mental pain, then the unfortunate love has completely ruined
their longing for life and living desire.
Anna and Emma live in a relatively narrow and closed environment,
which prevents them from going deep into the broad social life.