Anna Karenina

I’ve finished reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy today morning, and I was so touched by the sad consequences happened to Anna Karenina who is the main character in the novel. In short, its about life of Russian high society were Anna belongs to, she’s married with a child, but she hates her husband, and so he, then a love affair story starts. She fall in love with Vronsky, a single man who also belongs to the upper class, both thought they found the soul-mate and love of their life, especially Anna, she gave up everything for this love, but eventually things turned up side down against her. She lost everything all in a sudden, the family, the reputation, the secure, even the love. The novel is long and has many events going at the same time as well as different characters and sad ending which I didn’t mention, I wont talk about it all for those who want to read it.

 

The thing that touched me the most is how the blessing of love can turn to wrath, when people fall in love they forget about everything, they give up everything, they think that love is the solution for all the issues that they don’t have to worry about anything, but then, it’s a matter of time, after a while everything change, the passion of love disappeared, and the issues start showing up. But the thing is love is always the same, and the issues where there from the start, except that people left them aside when love started and were influenced by the obsession of love.

 

What I learned from this novel is thinking outside the box when fall in love and not to give up everything for love, instead, be aware of the love impact and charm. Love is essential in our life, but it is not everything. If we fall in love, we should fall in a right way!