| Leo·Tolstoy(1828——1910),is one of the greatest representatives of Russian critical realist literature, and one of the most famous writers in the world. His artistic practice lasted 60 years,and went through three revolutionary historical phases in Russia, including two important political events, respectively in the middle of the19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, with the former being the serf system abolishment in1861and the latter the first bourgeois revolution in 1905. Anna Karenina was written by Tolstoy when his creation was vigorous. Although Anna Karenina is a novel about family, Tolstoy put Anna to a broad social background. Anna as described by Tolstoy is a woman who is antipathetic with the bureaucracy, nobleman tradition and fashion in that time. Though Anna's thespian fate, Tolstoy exposed the hypocrisy and cunning of upper-class, the archness and deceit of the religion, the callosity and cheekiness of bureaucrat in Russian in the 19th century.First,the patriarchal clan system feudal ideology and religious consciousness is one of the murderers that lead to Anna's thespian fate. After 1861 in Russia, capitalism was developing, but feudalism government was still in the ascendant, and there lived the stub of serf system, particularly the patriarchal clan system feudal ideology that long lived in the Russian society contaminated the people deeply. The tsarism that lack of humane and the churchy restrictions restrained the people's real feeling, and the tsarist law treated the patriarchal clan system family as the ossified chains that can never be changed; the church thought that marriage and divorce can not be according to the loving, all those things are decided by the God and is sacred and imprescriptibly. Anna, the leading character in the novel, lived through her childhood and maidenhood under the education of patriarchal clan system. When she was 16 years old, she married Karenin who was a bureaucrat and was twenty years older than her, at which time she knew nothing about the loving. They built a family without loving. After she met nobleman military officer Voronsky, her affection began to awake; she knew she had the right to pursue loving. During her pursuing to be loved, she was agonized by the religion thought, and doubt herself , discredited her loving, treated herself as guilty. She felt herself culpable before the God, his husband and sun. The religious thought could not save her, on the contrary, she ended her young life crying "Excuse me, My God".Secondly,loving paramountcy and loving disillusion are the efficient amse that lead to Anna's thespian fate .Anna's love out of wedlock had badly defect, most deadly is that she regarded love as the only aim of her life, and could not allow Voronsky to go in for his own career and live according to his fashion. Her request to Voronsky is too much. She wanted Voronsky to devote to herself entirely, accompany her every time. whatever lovingness intension can not satisfy her, she look forward to Voronsky's love to her, more intensive and more intensive to infinity. She request Voronsky liked herself forever just as fist love, and regard other desire of Voronsky as the betray to her loving. As many other women in the man society, Anna found herself in the love, and also lose herself in the love. She go out of the family without loving, and became the slave of the loving. What never changed is that she is a vassal of a man. No self-governed personality and no self seek out of loving, more intensively she look forward to love, more easily she became a vassal of a man.; To maintain this adhere state which regarded as love by herself, she had to constrain her personality, and lose herself in the end. Suicide is the only way Anna could choices when she want to gain the freedom of her spirit, the disillusion of love is equal to the end of life to her.On the third place,Anna's character is another reason that leads to her thespian fate. The rational and distant character of Karenin unconsciously but obstinately constrai...
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