1. Try to describe Anna's tragedy in your own words.

Consider her career if she remained faithful to Karenin and

then consider the rewards of her guilty existence with Vronsky. Is there a right and wrong in her choice of
destiny? Does Anna have a choice?

Anna’s experience is dreadful and full of sorrow. She fell into a trap that destroyed her marriage and herself. With
lack of rationality and full of raging emotions, she loved a man other than her husband. She is even more enthusiastic in
fighting her relationship for Vronsky than fixing her marriage. Anna’s tragedy can be a love story for others but in reality
it is not. Anna failed to save herself from committing sin against his husband and most especially against God.

In my own opinion, if Anna remained faithful to Karenin, she could skip the terrible things that she experience. No
marriage is perfect. Marriage is not always all about the love we received from our partners. People tend to forget that
marriage is a way how God, despite our undeserving state, firmly love us unconditionally. Marriage is a gift. We do not
earn it. It is a good gift that was given to two people to glorify the giver through the love we give no matter what the
circumstances may be.

Adultery is a product of multiple events of unhappiness inside the marriage. From this, we can say that the one who
commits wants to satisfy himself to feel complete. Adultery is therefore an act of selfishness. I believe that Anna has a
choice. And she chose herself. She allowed herself to find happiness in the way she thinks right. Love or romance is
already defined by many people according to their experiences. Some may say that love endures all things. But because
we are imperfect people, we cannot expect to give and receive perfect love. Marriage is suppose to be the gift of God to
demonstrate to us that even though we do not deserve to be loved, He still pursue us in all the days of our lives.

2. What is the significance of Anna's deathbed scene?

Anna’s deathbed scene is a representation of her suffering for her choices. It makes her weak and sick. Anna's deathbed
crisis reverses the process of her love affair. Finding happiness in the expense of others makes people more miserable
and desperate because it does not last. For Karenin, Anna's deathbed crisis acts as a catalyst releasing his latent
emotions of love and forgiveness — emotions which he has spent his life trying to repress.

3. What characteristics do Anna and Levin share?

Anna and Levin are both in search for a love that will fulfill the void in their hearts. Another is, they are both
experiencing difficulties in the norms that their society is imposing them. Levin is his own person. He follows his own
vision of things, even when it is confused and foggy, rather than adopting any group’s prefabricated views. Anna, on the
other hand, is at her own search for self-definition and individual happiness.