Konstantin Levin and His Strug

In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy examines the psychological makeup of Konstantin Levin. On one hand, he is a symbol for the educated landowners and aristocracy that is prevalent in Russia. Conversely, he represents the struggle in searching for the meaning of life. Although part of the Russian Aristocracy, Levin finds contentment in farming and manual labor. It is in the agricultural environment that Levin discovers his purpose when viewing the blue sky and experiencing nonverbal …

…beauty of experience of peasant life and thus would have been an abandonment of the search for rational structure and an admission of defeat) he realizes that he loves Kitty. It is through the struggle that Levin manages to save himself. Instead of the industrializing, aristocratic upper class, it is the agricultural an peasant society in which Levin is able to discover his purpose in life. Bibliography Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. 1877. New York: Bantam Books, 1981