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“Anna Karenina” novel is considered as one of the most renowned literary timeless texts. It was written in Russian by the Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy in 1878 and was translated into many languages.\r\n\r\nThe main character in this novel is the beautiful and charming Anna whom Tolstoy describes in details. He tells the story of her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. Anna is married to a government official, Count Alexei Karenin, who is 20 years old than her; she also has a son from him. Anna enjoys a prestigious social status and is respected by the people around her in the Russian aristocratic setting before she fell in love with Vronsky.\r\n\r\nFalling in love with Vronsky was actually a trap set by him since he is known for seeking out married women. This has led to the destruction of Anna’s relationship with her husband and her reputation in the Russian aristocratic class. Her husband tries to resolve the problem judiciously but Anna reveals to her husband that she hates him and leaves alone to catch up with her lover without any consideration of what people would say about her. She did not care if people would go away from her, even those who are close to herself.\r\n\r\nAs the novel progresses, the narrator goes deeper in explaining the contradictions that the characters show on the religious, social and moral levels of this human relationship on one hand, as falling in love and what hearts choose is a human thing, and the stance of religion which defends the sanctity of marriage and that of society which loves rumors and cruelly judges people who are subject to these rumors on the other. Additionally, he speaks about the doubts between the two lovers, the husband and the fate of the child, as well as the jealousy of Anna toward her lover for the sake of whom she has abandoned her husband, son and reputation, and with whose fate she has bounded hers. The novel’s events get even more intense as Anna is revealed to be pregnant from Vronsky, but the female child dies soon after she is born. As a result, Anna has a break down and her husband shows compassion towards her. He takes her back to her house and child. However, after she recovers she goes back to meet her lover and lives with him leaving her husband for the second time.\r\n\r\nIn her life with Vronsky, Anna has many doubts about her lover and accuses him of having many love affairs with other women. Her doubts increase as her jealousy becomes stronger. As a result she becomes addict to heroin and psychologically collapses in the end; these are complications that Tolstoy is very skilled at describing. To end her agonies, Anna decides to throw herself under a train in which her love of the knight officer started. Questions about human relations are still being asked to this day, and there are differences in opinions among people regarding these relations; this may be the secret that makes this novel so much magical.