I love Tolstoy's uncanny gift for creating the perfect ending and then dumping a hundred more pages of "philosophy" on top of it. <3 He just can't help himself, and WHY SHOULD HE, HE HAS IDEAS. Wrongness like that is its own sublimity.
Natasha is such an asshole :( It's heartbreaking how everyone in the family just sort of resolves to take Sonya for granted. I wonder if way in the back of her mind, Natasha still resents Sonya for not letting her run off with what's-his-name and get ruined. Because Sonya doesn't understand real love like a real person, obviously. >:(
I actually love how "boring" and messy the Rostov marriages are; they feel really real to me, all weedy and full of thorns. I get why people hate it that Natasha doesn't sing anymore, but I was really surprised by how much I didn't - everything Tolstoy has to say about the proper purpose of a married woman or whatever is bullshit, but Natasha herself is 100% believable to me, so I'm ok with it.
If Sonya married someone else, where would they get all their free labor?? (wait) ok, where would they get free labor and emotional support from someone of their own social class? It's nice to be looked after, even if it is a bit awkward every second from time to time and SONYA'S A STERILE FLOWER ANYWAY so why bother?
(I like to think she reconnects with Dolokhov after he's had a couple of temporary and non-temporary revelations of his own, and they turn out to be perfect for each other).
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Date: 2016-08-18 04:43 pm (UTC)Natasha is such an asshole :( It's heartbreaking how everyone in the family just sort of resolves to take Sonya for granted. I wonder if way in the back of her mind, Natasha still resents Sonya for not letting her run off with what's-his-name and get ruined. Because Sonya doesn't understand real love like a real person, obviously. >:(
I actually love how "boring" and messy the Rostov marriages are; they feel really real to me, all weedy and full of thorns. I get why people hate it that Natasha doesn't sing anymore, but I was really surprised by how much I didn't - everything Tolstoy has to say about the proper purpose of a married woman or whatever is bullshit, but Natasha herself is 100% believable to me, so I'm ok with it.
If Sonya married someone else, where would they get all their free labor?? (wait) ok, where would they get free labor and emotional support from someone of their own social class? It's nice to be looked after, even if it is a bit awkward
every secondfrom time to time and SONYA'S A STERILE FLOWER ANYWAY so why bother?(I like to think she reconnects with Dolokhov after he's had a couple of temporary and non-temporary revelations of his own, and they turn out to be perfect for each other).