The aristocratic young man Nekhlyudov seduced the adopted daughter of his aunt, the peasant girl Katyusha Maslova, causing her to become a prostitute; but when she was falsely accused of murder for money, he used She attended the court as a juror in her trial. This seemingly coincidental event had typical social significance at the time.

On the one hand, the novel presents the author's representative themes in his later years - spiritual awakening and running away from home; on the other hand, it mainly uses Nekhlyudov's experience and knowledge to show the dark side of society from cities to rural areas, and to the government. , courts, prisons, churches, private ownership of land and the capitalist system have made profound criticisms.

However, the later part of the work gradually highlights the preaching of not using violence to resist evil and self-cultivation. Tolstoy's strengths and weaknesses are most concentrated and vividly expressed here.

The creative background of "Resurrection"

From the late 1870s to the early 1880s, Russia's capitalism developed rapidly, the countryside suffered huge damage, and the working people's lives became increasingly poor. . At that time, the heavy burden of the Russian-Turkish war and successive years of famine brought even more serious disasters to the people. At this time Tolstoy became more and more concerned about the plight of the people.

He actively participated in the disaster relief work at that time and witnessed the terrible situation of farmers and urban poor. Based on his many years of exploration and thinking, he finally saw clearly the reactionary nature of the Tsarist autocratic system. The author participated in disaster relief work from 1891 to 1892 and realized that there was a huge gap between farmers and landlords. The root cause of farmers' poverty was the private ownership of land by landlords.

After Tolstoy successively completed his masterpieces "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", his worldview underwent a fundamental change in his later years, and his artistic critical power reached its peak. , reaching the "sober realism" of "tearing down all masks".

This is undoubtedly the result of his artistic exploration, and it is also the result of his spiritual exploration. Observing the real life in Russia from the perspective of the peasants and expressing opinions on behalf of the peasant class were the main source of the great critical power of his late creations. This is most vivid and prominent in his various works, especially in the novel "Resurrection".