Did women, at the time of Tolstoy, empathize themselves with Anna? or they condemned her?
Did women, at the time of Tolstoy, empathize themselves with Anna? or they condemned her?
Podrá nublarse el sol eternamente;
Podrá secarse en un instante el mar;
Podrá romperse el eje de la tierra
Como un débil cristal.
¡todo sucederá! Podrá la muerte
Cubrirme con su fúnebre crespón;
Pero jamás en mí podrá apagarse
La llama de tu amor.
Although we cannot know that for sure, because we haven't lived in those days , we can predict. My opinion is that they personally sympathize her; surely there were other womans who didn't like their husbands but they didn't have enough strength to leave him.
But; in public, they would condemn her. Society was too important to them and it would be dangerous to sympathize her in public. Their status and reputation would be seriously damaged, and that's the risk they can't take and the price would be too high. Anna was excluded from society, and they didn't want same thing for themselves.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
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in their minds and hearts, i would say, they sympathize her, but human nature is tricky, so publicly they were condemning her (It's just my personal opinion)
"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how, and how much?"
-Arundhati Roy "The God of Small Things"