The Tragic Image of Girati in "Love in the Painting" and Anna in "Anna Karenina" Comparative analysis

Abstract

"Love in Painting" and "Anna Karenina" are both masterpieces of tragic literature. In the works, the images of Girardi and Anna are described in detail and vividly. The tragic image exposes the hypocrisy of their times.

In the works, both Girati and Anna adhere to the principle and truth of "love first", awaken in love, and die in love. There are both similarities and differences in the expression of their tragic images. The similarities are that they were all born in noble families, but their noble birth did not bring them the happiness they deserve. On the contrary, it is precisely the restraint of noble families under the influence of feudal traditional thinking that makes them have no autonomy in pursuing love and obtaining a happy marriage; secondly, they are affected by foreign ideas in the background of the old and new eras, and their consciousness gradually awakens, full of passion, began to have new requirements in terms of emancipating individuality, pursuing true love and marriage happiness; thirdly, because traditional feudal absolutism still occupies a dominant position in the development of society, it is invisible while pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love. There is another powerful force suppressing them, and their hearts are contradictory and complicated; fourth, in terms of longing for love, pursuing true love and happy marriage, because they insist on the truth of "love first", they cannot court, and finally extinguished in the burning of love. The light of life. The differences are mainly manifested in: first, there are differences in the personalities of the characters portrayed by the authors; second, there are differences in the images of the characters.

Both Girati and Anna are in the changing era of the alternation of old and new ideas, and are deeply affected by the conflict between feudal traditional ideas and advanced ideas of social change. It is because of similarities and differences that it is feasible and valuable to analyze and compare the tragic images of the two heroines in these two works. Their experience and destiny are just a microcosm of the background of the times they live in, but what they reflect is the truest life portrayal of thousands of women in this era, and the main root cause of all these tragedies is that A society full of hypocrisy and crime.