Will I like Anna Karenina if I'm an unapologetic mysoginist?
>>24965698It's a nice book. Anna is actually the villain of the book and the protag whose example you should follow is a man named Levin.
Tolstoy was an unapologetic misogynist himself
>>24965698You'll love it t.sexist
Strange how well so many fairly misogynist works lend themselves to feminist interpretations... idk, there might be some kind of a horseshoe at play...
>>24965756You would struggle hard to find feminist themes in Anna karenina. Anna is objectively the female doppelgänger of Levin (ie she lives IN life and for Lust and adultery whereas Levin is a meek man who lives a modest life for God) and she characterized negative attitudes towards life in contrast with the Christian Levin.
>>24965756>extremely complex, nuanced works of art that can be interpreted multiple ways>it must be horseshoe theoryIdk, you might be retarded.
>>24965698No.
>>24965698It was written by a famous misogynist dude
>>24965698I cannot predict anything for you. Maybe Tolstoy's nuanced writing of a woman will turn you off because you prefer your women simple, subservient, and chaste (but only in a really specific way where they're hypersexual for your unwashed, ashy, overweight ass).Or maybe you'll enjoy it because you only find yourself capable of hating women when you actually think there's something of substance to hate. Which, in Anna Karenina, there is: she's a great character, and so are Kitty and Dolly.>>24965721The villains are more Vronsky and Stiva than anything, desu.>>24965777Delusion. A major aspect of the novel is the double standards that society holds for men and women, fathers and mothers, create scenarios where people like Vronsky and Karenin can carry on, but women like Anna are forced into increasingly desperate states of mind.
>>24965859Feminist analyses of Anna Karenina are all horseshit. Just because Tolstoy criticized the way that society gossips about women and chastises them in cases of adultery and sexual promiscuity more than men doesn't mean he was critiquing this from a position of defending women's inequality, rather the whole bourgeois enterprise of how relationships are conducted which he later became so critical of that he denounced even marriage entirely. He felt that the corruption of women was downstream from how men are taught to treat them (this is explicitly what The Kreutzer Sonata is about). This is not feminist at all, basically it means he believed in patriarchy but that men should be more competent. Anna isn't really depicted as sympathetic at all, she's downright pathetic and that's enough to get us emotionally invested in her because he repeatedly portrays her as a good woman corrupted by sinful forces that are killing her throughout the entire novel. Tolstoy firmly believed that a woman's place was in the household
After reading this, I became even more sexist. Anna is a shitty person and so is every modern woman who emulates her. Levin and his wife are the true protagonists worth rooting for, meanwhile Vronsky and Anna deserved their humiliation.
>>24965698Tolstoy was a feminist so I doubt it
>>24965889You became even more sexist because of a fictional character?
>>24965896Yes. Does fiction have less value?
>>24965904How do we define value?
