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" … We can see Anna as either a deeply liberating, and liberated figure, or as an equally deeply imprisoned and repressed figure."
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" ... We can see Anna as either a deeply liberating, and liberated figure, or as an equally deeply imprisoned and repressed figure." Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's masterpiece, exposes the heroine through different lights in different sections of the novel. From the outside looking in, Anna is viewed as a liberated figure. This occurs before we are allowed to explore her character to a greater extent, where it is then noted that she is indeed not without flaw. Her jealousy eventually overtakes her mindset and she becomes imprisoned by her thoughts. When we are first introduced to Anna's character, she seems just as perfect as she is described by the other characters of the novel: beautiful, kind, and liberated. She is classified unique, in a class all her own. She is commended for saving Oblonsky and Dolly's relationship. As the storyline progresses, we see that Anna's ways of life are somewhat dictated...
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