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As we all know, the strongest feeling is love. Love can manipulate and make you do things without any hesitation. Unfortunately, love also can cause problems and despair. Anna Karenina is a story about the tragic love of a woman who already had a husband and a son, but fell in love with another man. By that, she made herself rejected by society, which caused her to fall into a deep depression and finally commit a suicide. There are a lot of themes in the story, like love and jealousy, when Anna falls in love with Vronsky and couldn't do anything about it. This led to a divorce between Anna and her husband, Alexei Karenin. However, Alexei didn't accept her request, despite her affair with Vronsky. After not a long period of time, Anna started feeling jealous towards Vronskiy because he was going out to the society, while Anna couldn't do that because she became a reject in the society when everybody got to know that she was cheating on Alexei while they were married. Tolstoy also made a major theme about the consequences of doing sinful things, by that illustrating the treatment of the society towards Anna as her punishment. This story can teach us that marring at the early age is not always a good decision. Based on the story, Anna regretted that she has married Sergei when she was young because all those years she was tolerated Alexei, even though he was busy all the time and barely spend any time taking care of his son and wife. I think every person can and will enjoy this story, who at least once fell in love and was feeling jealous. The way how Leo Tolstoy described and explained the feelings of Anna is brilliant. People who were jealous of someone can connect and perfectly understand Anna's depression, what was she feeling, and why she did what she did. It is also a good sermon about what will happen if you will cheat on somebody with whom you are together like Anna cheated on her husband. The punishment will be the disrespect from the people who are surrounding you and a bad attitude towards you, same as the society has done with Anna. Nevertheless, the story contains complicated vocabulary, meanings, small details which will play a big role later in the novel, therefore you should pay a lot of your attention to everything in the novel. Overall, I really liked the way Tolstoy showed us the feelings which Anna was suffering throughout the novel. I also enjoyed the way Tolstoy connected the love story of Levin and Kitty, who started unsuccessfully but ended up happily in contradistinction to Anna and Vronsky. I even liked the way Tolstoy came up with the choice of Anna's suicide when she jumped under the train. We can infer that she committed specifically that kind of a suicide because earlier in the novel she was a witness to an accident when a worker fell under the train. However, I think it would be much interesting if Tolstoy provided us with more amount of the thoughts and feelings of Vronskiy. As Tolstoy didn't really do that, Vronskiy was a secretive character in the novel. I think it is a masterpiece of Russian literature and I very enjoyed reading it. I advise you to read it as well!