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Part 4, Chapter 13
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 extremely happy. In a daze, he goes to a council meeting with Koznyshev, where everyone seems sweet in his eyes, because he is in such a thrilled mood. Sviyazhsky invites Levin over for tea, and Levin talks so much that he bores the company terribly; he even talks a servant’s ear off with his own happiness. Levin is so excited that he can’t sleep.
Once Levin has become engaged, the entire world seems wonderful to him; in contrast, at the end of the novel, Anna’s depression makes the entire world appear terrible to her. Levin becomes completely tone-deaf to how society perceives him because he’s so carried away by his emotions, which is something Karenin would never do.
Themes
