These incidents form the turning point of the novel. At this sudden reversal of their roles Vronsky feels so humiliated he attempts suicide. At her deathbed, Karenin forgives her and feels sanctified by this surge of humanity and Christian charity. Anna is confined of a daughter, but dangerously ill from puerperal fever. Karenin, who has tried to maintain appearances of domestic tranquillity, finally builds up enough anger to hire a divorce lawyer. Having rejected her husband, but still unable to depend on Vronsky, Anna finds her situation desperate. Vronsky's career ambitions rival his love, and as he has not chosen between them, he is still uncommitted to Anna. He also realizes he will always love Kitty. Seeing his brother Nicolai hopelessly ill with tuberculosis, he realizes he has been working to avoid facing the problem of death. He expends his energies in devising a cooperative landholding system with his peasants to make the best use of the land.
By the time she confesses her adultery to the suspecting Karenin, she is already pregnant with Vronsky's child.ĭevoting himself to farming, Levin tries to find life meaningful without marriage.
Realizing the hypocrisy of this new calling, Kitty returns to Russia cured of her depression and ready to accept her ultimate wifehood.Ĭonsummating her union with Vronsky, Anna steps into a new life with much foreboding for the future. At the German spa where she takes a rest cure she tries to deny her womanly nature by becoming a religious do-gooder. Kitty falls ill after her humiliating rejection by Vronsky. Petersburg, while the disappointed Levin returns to his country estate. Anna, followed by Vronsky, returns to her husband and son in St. He and Anna are so involved with each other at the grand ball that Kitty's hopes for Vronsky are shattered. Meeting the lovely Madame Karenina, Vronsky falls in love and begins to pursue her. She refuses him, for she loves Count Vronsky, a dashing army officer who has no intentions of marrying. Konstantin Levin, Stiva's friend, arrives in Moscow to propose to the eighteen year old Kitty Shtcherbatsky. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to reconcile the couple and dissuades Dolly from getting a divorce.
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