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Part 7, Chapter 3
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 goes to visit Prince Lvov, who is married to Kitty’s sister, Natalie. The families are good friends. Levin likes their children as well. Natalie comes in, and she arranges to go to a concert and a public meeting with Levin. Levin remembers as they’re all leaving the house that Kitty had wanted him to discuss Oblonsky with them, but they never quite get around to it.
Prince Lvov and Natalie are perhaps the only uncomplicated, truly happy marriage in the entire novel. Levin’s comfort with them reminds the reader that at the beginning of the novel, Levin is really in love with the entire Shcherbatsky family, and this example of marital and familial bliss proves why.
Themes
