![]() French, English influence marked as negative.The clash of values: imported, Western values.Shifting social attitudes towards divorce and the family.The changing nature of marriage: Princess Shcherbatskaia does not know how to arrange her daughter’s marriage.Polemic with the radical/nihilistic thinking about free love.Opening sentence states the theme: happy and unhappy families.description of Obolensky at the restaurant) is clearly felt by the reader to be that of Tolstoy. The invisible narrator-author shines through in Levin – cf Nikolenka in Childhood.Clearly autobiographical figure: shares details of Tolstoy’s own life.Position of Tolstoy the conservative thinker expressed by Levin.Railway as symbol of the new industrialized Russia in the making.The creation of zemstvos: local democracy. ![]()
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