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Analysis of Masterpieces of Russian Literature

War and Peace the novel by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace are remarkable stories interlock the lives of numerous outstanding

Russian families more than the line of approximately 8years, all through that Napoleon

Bonaparte overcame significance of Europe as well as rummage around to invade Russia

(Tolstoy p9). A historical novel archives the intense actions in Russia for the period of the

Napoleonic battle in the early 19

c. Furthermore, it talks about a cohort on the edge of

transformation, with some shielding the obtainable class composition with their existing, as

others comprehend that the past ways of living are getting out of existence.

Social

The story soon brings in “the Rostov family, in which they are shown preparing a party

to celebrate their youngest daughter Natasha” (Summaries pg12). Pierre who is an illegitimate

son to a famous, rich aristocrat of his father who later recognizes him as his son this makes his

life to change. Prince Andrew gets shown to joining the army to fight against the French, leaving

back a pregnant wife, his father together with Mary his sister. While in the battle Nicholas is

involved in trouble after intimidating a more significant officer whom Nicholas claimed he

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caught him cheating. Later Nicholas runs away leaving an impression of a coward and a liar.

Pierre gets married to Hellen while Anatole proposes to Mary, but the father to Mary goes

against the marriage. Andrew who was in the battle gets wounded and is pronounced dead. From

the novel, Natasha begins to make a recovery after a neighbor offers to take her to several

religious ceremonies. The young girl accepts God's grace and forgiveness for her actions. Pierre

continues to visit the family and enjoy her company. Using a Masonic code, he predicts that

Napoleon will get defeated in 1812. He sets off to the front to do what he can to stop the French.

The Rostovs' youngest son, Petya, receives special permission to join the army as well. Pierre

convenes up with the military at Borodino. While significantly overpowered by the French army,

the Russian army retaliates with a brave wrestle.

Nicholas Rostov gets in love with Sonya who is his cousin, but the family demands that

Nicholas should marry someone with money because of their poverty level. Pierre due to rumors

concerning the affair involving his wife together with Dolokhov and he reacts to it by injuring

Dolokhov, and then he lives the country. This created the questioning of Pierre's morals and

while in a hotel, he is introduced to Freemasons, which is a secret society.

Kutuzov who is a Russian general is forced to surpass the running French army to kill

them. However, he realizes his army could not win the battle. The following day, they hit the

French camp, which led to the release of Pierre because of French army running away, but Petya

is killed in the process. Later Pierre gets together with the Rostov family, then he together with

Natasha; they comfort each other because of their grief because of losing loved ones.

Social and Economic

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In the novel, evidence shows there is “conflict involving members of the distinctive

classes and underlying anxiety between them” (Thibaut pg20). “Countess Rostov as well as

Prince Nicholas who are members of the old generation, they engage in verbal abuse of the

peasant’s class under their authority” (Kaufman p32). Due to their patriotic character, they

openly explain in what way the peasants would get lost if they do not get their guidance. In the

novel, characters such as Platon Karataev are just a poor man living in a simple as well as a

happy life. Mary is brazen out by peasants at Bogucharovo, which is near to her family's estate,

while arranging to live before the arrival of the French.

In some cases, Tolstoy clearly shows some facts in some acts indicating enjoyment of

social privilege like that of Mary who is forced to evacuate only because of fear of attacks from

French. The peasant in famished status, however, they are not accepting the grain being offered

to them by Mary due to the fear of angering the French army but engaged in blocking Mary’s

horse while in the plans to leave. In due time Nicholas turns up, and they robotically fall under

his command and immediately obey with his orders without hesitation, actually in

acknowledgment of his advanced breeding and brainpower. Nicholas commands the heads of the

revolution bound together with other numerous men in the mob present their belts to carry out

the purpose. The best inspiration for the dignified families is how they care for serfs. The nobles

consider that they encompass the accountability to look after the serfs, like caring children.

While doing this, it showed a great impression and part of the policy of honor and any nobleman

who breaches this trust is acknowledged and disciplined by his peers.

In most cases the code of demeanor gearshifts almost every characteristic of upper-class

lifestyle. It shows how a person should operate in any specified position; to depart from it

provoked the show of disapproval of one's peers. Later, Bezukhov, go through a sequence of

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alterations that lift his logic of social accountability. He bonds with the Freemasons among the

proposal of functioning among society's influential in assisting the poor.

Political

“Bonaparte unproductively tried to enlarge his territory into Russia, merely to be reverse

later” (Graham p50). One associate of a self-indulgent, upper-class multitude whose name is

Pierre is shown as an agitator and a criticizer of governmental policies. Pierre is indicated

hosting regular drunken card bashes at night with a fast multitude who were Anatole together

with Fedya who are described as an officer and a desperado respectively. Prince Andrew is

another member of that multitude but is a nationalist and is indomitable to guard his country as

well as patrician way of life. “Pierre makes a trip to the army at the war of Borodino and

explores the countryside; half-crazed, he chooses he has to obtain a gun and gun down

Napoleon” (Tolstoy 70). After joining the secret society that gathers in opposition to the

government understands to conquer its social configuration that reserved people as serfs. From

the novel, The Russian military proceeds to Moscow, while Napoleon, instead of engaging in a

fight, withdraws.

In a wheeze, he commands that detainee together with lunatics to get free. As a multitude

of peasants assembles outside his home, then he gets out a political detainee and commands the

multitude to kill him. While beating the detainee together with another man, the administrator

uses his carriage to run away from the city. These made the French soldiers, taking pleasure in

the liberty the vacant city affords, unintentionally create fires that fume throughout Moscow.

Pierre becomes preoccupied with the notion of killing Napoleon. Meanwhile abstracted by a

French administrator whom he saved his life, Pierre lastly undertook to carry out the deed. He

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then gets detained by the French in mistrust of being a secret agent. He is disgraced in jail as well

as taken out to get put to death.

The Russians initiated a chain of guerilla assault on the withdrawing troops. Pierre, who

got forced to rally as a hostage of war, is liberated and comes back to Moscow a liberated man.

He makes a trip to Princess Mary and gets stunned to spot Natasha and learns that the two have

attached because of the death of Prince Andrew. The description of that society looked like one

who caused the Decembrist rebellion that was to occur in Russia five years afterwards. Tolstoy

took plus of the particular situation to place his rambling fiction of love, battle, as well as

altering political together with social ideas.

In conclusion, the Leo Tolstoy novel, which is the War and Peace, interlinks grand topics

of quarrel and love, as well as birth and death, together with liberated will and faith with

masterpiece of memorable panoramas of 19 the century in Russia, to build a beautiful heroic of

person's life in the entire imperfection and grandeur of a human being.

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Works Cited

Summaries, Bright. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis

and Reading Guide. BrightSummaries. Com, 2016.

Thibaut, John W. The social psychology of groups. Routledge, 2017.

Kaufman, Andrew. Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times.

Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Graham, Norman A. "Russian foreign policy towards Central Asia and the Caucasus since the

end of the cold war: A search for identity with geopolitical characteristics." Identity and

Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Routledge, 2015. 103-133.

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. BookRix, 2014

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