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Part 2, Chapter 11
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Anna Karenina, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Marriage and Family Life
Adultery and Jealousy
Physical Activity and Movement
Society and Class
Farming and Rural Life
Compassion and Forgiveness
Summary
Analysis
Levin is still dejected and embarrassed over Kitty’s rejection of him, but he continues to keep up his work on the farm. He receives a letter saying that his brother Nikolai is ill, and Levin persuades Nikolai to go to a foreign spa.
Although Levin is despondent and ashamed at the failed outcome of his proposal to Kitty, he continues to take charge of his normal life and duties.
Themes
Meanwhile, spring has returned to the farm, with sticky new buds on the birches and baby animals. Levin begins writing a book on farming, praising the “known, immutable character of the worker.”
