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THE FEMALE SPECTACLE
Objectification of the Female Form in Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Maria Pushkina
Daughter of Russian Romantic author
Alexander Pushkin
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
By Ivan Kramskoi
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
By John Singer Sargent
Anna exiting the train station
Vronsky with Frou-Frou before the
race
“Pale, his lower jaw, trembling, he stood over her and pleaded with her to be calm, himself not knowing why or how….but the louder he spoke, the lower she bent her [Anna’s] once proud, gay, but now shame-stricken head, and she became all limp, falling from the divan where she had been sitting to the floor at his feet” (149).
COMPARISON OF ANNA AND FROU-FROU
“His face disfigured by passion, pale, his lower jaw trembling, Vronsky kicked her in the stomach with his heel and again started pulling at the reins” (200).
THE OBLONSKY FAMILY
INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND: THE
OBLONSKYS
“And how nice it all was before that, what a nice life we had! She was content, happy with the children, I didn’t hinder her in anything, left her to fuss over them and the household however she liked” (3).
“’And generally,’ thought Darya Alexandrovna, looking back at the whole of her life in those fifteen years of marriage, ‘pregnancy, nausea, dullness of mind, indifference to everything, and above all, ugliness” (607).
Kitty and Vronsky entering the ball
KITTY AND LEVIN
THE LEVINS