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Essay Instructions: Explain and provide examples of the "adultery" motif in "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. How does this motif help the theme of social change in the nineteenth-century Russia? What are examples of this social change in general and in Anna Karenina? What message was Tolstoy try to convey about adultery, social change, and the role of women? Are there any aspects of feminism in this novel? If so, what are they?

-- This are the questions I am trying to answer in this paper - not in this order, per say, but in a more organized fashion. The term paper guides are very vague - you have a lot of creative freedom provided it is centered around Anna Karenina and Russian literature.

Essay Instructions: Concentrate on the two women in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Their moral values, lessons they learned, were they ?good? or not-so-good, their financial and social positions, what sort of societies did they arise from, education and personalities. Try to compare the two women in some way along with their cultural surroundings.