Abstract- This study analyzes the short story of God sees the truth, but waits by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi with the use of five literary Criticism; as well as it seeks for meaning and understanding of the said story, as it deduces by the Historical Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Deconstruction Criticism, Symbolic Criticism, and Gender Criticism. It also used the qualitative descriptive method in determining the five literary criticism in relation to the literary piece. This research makes use of the given...
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There were indeed a great number of things that made Leo Tolstoy such a relevant figure in the literary tradition. He was deeply interested in politics and social issues of 19th-century Russia, including class struggles and issues regarding the rights and freedoms of the serfs. Later in his life, Tolstoy partially renounced his luxurious lifestyle, naming his wife as keeper of the state and thus proclaiming his deep commitment and support for the social reform he so viewed as necessary....
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In Kholstomer â The Story of a Horse, Leo Tolstoy uses an animalâs point of view as a method to increase the exquisiteness of the piece wherein Kholstomer suffered an unfortunate life as a horse because he was being physically and emotionally tormented. This approach is known as defamiliarization which tends to defamiliarize the familiar settings, or words to either hide something or the author wants his/her readers to give a wide range of perspective about the different angles or...
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Pahom was a hardworking man. But nonetheless, he was a poor peasant. He and his wife seemed content living a stress-free lifestyle, and not having much. âWe may never grow rich, but we will always have enough to eatâ, his wife would say. Although Pahom agreed, he thought in the back of his mind that his life would be perfect and he would have nothing to fear if he only had more land. Pahom learned of a neighbor selling land,...
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Shortly after turning fifty, Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828âNovember 10, 1910) succumbed to a profound spiritual crisis. With his greatest works behind him, he found his sense of purpose dwindling as his celebrity and public acclaim billowed, sinking into a state of deep depression and melancholia despite having a large estate, good health for his age, a wife who had born him fourteen children, and the promise of eternal literary fame. On the brink of suicide, he made one last...
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Great Russian thinkers of the past Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky made significant contributions to Russia’s culture through the power of literature. They questioned the nature of humanity and the society that they lived in. Through their profound works of authorship due to the similar themes of thought in their works Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are often viewed in relation to one another they both used their voices to challenge the qualities of Russian life as they knew it. Leo Tolstoy...
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Tolstoy is not fully associated with existentialism, although in his work many existential themes are expressed. Tolstoyâs (1993) âHow much land does a man need?â looks into the existential idea of authenticity in relation to land ownership. Sartre is a major part of the existential discipline, with two important works which are âExistentialism and Humanismâ (2007) and âBeing and Nothingnessâ (1969). Sartre (1969) suggests the idea of bad faith, which is where an individual denies their freedom and acts in...
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