First of all, Anna's tragedy has her own reasons. She has a rich and complete family, but because she can't stand her husband's rigidity and indifference, she falls in love with W. Lenski, a romantic son who hangs out in various social occasions in the upper class, and finally abandons her husband and children to elope with W. Lenski in pursuit of pure love. But she didn't expect that her desperate behavior not only hurt her husband and children, but also challenged the moral bottom line of society. So, when she and W Lenski came back from abroad, she was ostracized by the whole society, met with cold shoulder and revenge by her husband, and lost the trust and love of her beloved son. All these brought her unbearable great mental stress and pain, so she became sensitive and paranoid, suspicious and unreasonable all day. In the end, W Lenski got tired of her and alienated from her day by day, which led her to self-destruction in despair and regarded love as the whole meaning of life. Therefore, Anna's supreme love concept and sensitive and paranoid personality are the important reasons for her tragedy.
Secondly, W Lenski is the protagonist of Anna's tragedy. He used to be a frequent visitor to high society. I fell in love with charming Anna at first sight because I met her at the station. Although I know Anna is married, I still pursue her enthusiastically. Lured by lust, he eloped abroad with Anna and their illegitimate daughter, regardless of the moral bottom line of society and the obstruction of his mother. But the idle life abroad soon bored him, so he returned to Russia with Anna and his children. However, he soon discovered that they could not win the welcome and respect of the Russian upper class as before. People look at them with different eyes. Finally, they had to leave the city and live in seclusion in the country. However, the boring country life soon made him lose interest. In order to have fun, he always looks for every opportunity to escape from the countryside. His behavior made Anna, who was already sensitive and suspicious, more suspicious that he no longer loved her, so she tried every means to get his love back, and even left the country with him and returned to Moscow. And Anna's contribution, in his view, is a restriction, constraint and even monitoring on him, which makes him bored and more and more indifferent to her. Although aware of Anna's abnormality, in order to appease Anna who is about to collapse, he agrees to return to the countryside with Anna to live a quiet life. However, after arguing with Anna about the time to return to China, he left Anna, who had a nervous breakdown, to see his mother, and finally pushed Anna to the abyss of death. Although after Anna's death, W Lenski felt extremely painful and wanted to end his life in the Serbian and Turkish wars, there is no denying that Anna's destruction was related to W Lenski's growing alienation from her.
Third, karenin is the driving force behind Anna's death. His attitude towards Anna made Anna slide to death step by step. After Anna married him, he was busy with all kinds of entertainment in officialdom all day and was indifferent to his wife. Even when everyone knew about Anna's abnormal relationship with W. Lenski, he didn't know anything until Anna told him that the baby in his belly was not his, but W. Lenski's. But in order to save face, he told his wife to keep silent, and said that he was willing to forgive her betrayal as long as he never met W. Lenski again. His cold and hypocritical attitude made Anna extremely disgusted. When Anna was dying of puerperal fever, karenin pretended to be generous and allowed W Lenski to visit Anna. In fact, he secretly wanted Anna to die. Anna finally survived under the call of death, and karenin pretended to have pity and sympathy for Anna, and was extremely fond of Anna and W. Lenski's daughter. Anna learned that W Lenski almost killed herself for her, and after a fierce ideological struggle, she finally chose to elope with W Lenski. At this time, karenin had a strong revenge. After Anna and W Lenski returned to China, he refused to let Anna meet her son, which made Anna extremely miserable. He also took advantage of others' sympathy for him, making Anna unable to gain a foothold in the social circle and exerting great mental pressure on Anna. Anna had to choose to leave Petersburg and live in seclusion in the country with W. Lenski. Later, in order to call back W Lenski's love and stabilize W Lenski's heart, Anna planned to divorce karenin, but karenin refused Anna's request on the pretext that the church did not allow Christians to divorce. This made Anna completely desperate and finally had to choose to lie on the rails and commit suicide to get rid of it. Therefore, we can say that karenin's indifference and hypocrisy are the motive force of Anna's destruction.
Of course, the whole upper class in Russia is also an accomplice to Anna's tragedy. For this group, they can have fun unscrupulously, flirt openly and take part in accidental amusement tacitly. In the social circle of high society, you can see couples who are far apart, even men and women who secretly cheat. However, people can't tolerate Anna's bold and sincere pursuit of love, because she doesn't want to go against her heart and maintain a loveless marriage. Therefore, when Anna's affair with W. Lenski is widely known in the upper class, people regard it as an interesting conversation after dinner and even take the initiative to create opportunities for them; However, when Anna eloped with W. Lenski, they accused them of violating morality and disregarding shame. When Anna and W Lenski reappeared in people's field of vision, people invariably showed their rejection and disgust. This hypocritical moral concept and filthy social atmosphere tightly squeezed Anna's living space, and finally pushed Anna to death. In this sense, we can say that the whole Russian upper class is the director behind Anna's tragedy.
Tolstoy showed us the selfishness, hypocrisy and indifference of Russian upper class in19th century through Anna's image and tragic fate. It also shows us that it is difficult for women in that era to pursue freedom and pure love, and even pay the price of their lives like Anna.
Of course, as a modern reader and woman, I got the following enlightenment from Anna's unfortunate fate:
First, there is nothing wrong with pursuing true love. However, we can't take love as the whole of life. Besides love, there are many beautiful things worth pursuing in life, such as career success and self-improvement. Besides, no matter how passionate love is, it will go out one day. When love is gone, is life still meaningful?
Second, as a woman, we must have independent thoughts and personality, and we can't completely pin our fate on anyone, including parents, lovers, children and friends. Otherwise, once they can't take care of you for various reasons, you will have to wait for death.
Third, never be stupid enough to punish and retaliate against others by destroying yourself. If others don't love you, your destruction will do no harm to others, and it will only add to the joke; If others love you, your destruction can only make the person who loves you live in pain forever. Therefore, no matter when, we should cherish ourselves and cherish life. Because, life with only one life is priceless to everyone, even if there is no water, even if your heart is broken, don't destroy yourself and give up on yourself. Through today's darkness, there will be a better tomorrow. There will always be infinite possibilities tomorrow. Once you give up your life, all the possibilities will become impossible.
Fourth, people should not lose themselves easily, but stick to themselves. Otherwise, once you lose yourself, you will no longer be you, and you will become a person who doesn't even like yourself. Just like Anna, she was originally a charming, elegant and confident woman, and everyone who saw her could not help liking her and being fascinated by her. But later, because I was afraid of being lovelorn, my temperament changed greatly, and I was swayed by considerations of gain and loss and unwarranted suspicion all day, and I completely lost my previous radiant image, which made people avoid it. This is all because she lost her personality in the long-term suffering life.
Finally, I want to say: I hope Anna's tragedy will never be repeated for us modern women.