Essay Topic:
-Use chapter 4 of part II of Theory of the novel to give a reading of volume 2,
part 4, of War and Peace. Show the brother and sister Rostovs encountering–in the
hunt, the evening with the uncle, and their nighttime sleigh rides–the possibility of
a natural human life. Discuss some ways in which Tolstoi opposes that possibility
to the conventional social life of the Russian aristocracy. Argue that in their
respective love interests—Nikolai’s rediscovery of Sonya and the pressure he face
to marry Julie Karagin; Natasha’s unhappiness in waiting for her love with Prince
Andrei to become her actual daily life; and Nikolai and Natasha’s silent shared
comparison of their future marriages with their own brother-and-sister love and
with the love between the uncle and his peasant housekeeper–Nikolai and Natasha
are each coming face to face with the discrepancy between the “natural” and the
“cultural” realities of love.
In this essay:
1) Use only the attached readings and not any other online sources (War and Peace and Theory of Novel) and use exactly the sections needed from the essay prompt
2) Provide a deep analysis of the novels ( War and Peace and Theory of Novel)
3) Answer the prompt accurately with no gaps in between paragraphs.
4) Use quotes from the texts and explain them precisely. In addition to that, the quotes should be cited properly. For example “XXX” ( Lukacs, pg. #)
5) Write a paper in which the paragraphs follow one another and the overall essay flows perfectly.
6) Write an intro (thesis), meaning “What he/she will be doing in this paper” in order to make it super organized
7) Provide a unique conclusion.