Greatly Reviewed!

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy really digs out what is there in the relation of a man and a woman, especially in a flawed matrimonial one. Tolstoy frankly shows, through his protagonist, that in the flawed matrimonial relationship, the wife can no longer respect the husband because of his past—in the past, he’s the kind of men who always had fun with women, even the married ones, and always avoided serious relationship. The wife can easily be attracted to a handsome man and the husband is too jealous.

One time, the husband invites the man to whom his wife is attracted to play music at his home with his wife, to play “The Kreutzer Sonata”. Unexpectedly, the wife and the protagonist’s wife played very well and it even made the man thinks that they internalized the music too much that the music itself sounds lustful. Later, when the husband’s out of town, he gets very anxious to receive a letter from his wife telling that the musician has pays visit several times. So anxious as he is, he decides to go home. He gets so pleasurably mad to find that the man is indeed still in the house. He expressed his anger by threatening to hurt the man and his own wife. His wife gets stabbed on the side of her body. Finally, police arrests him.

You might find that I give the spoiler here. Well, it might be so. But to me, the point of the story is not the plot itself. It is more on the reflections you can find in almost all of the sentences there. Just delve into the sentences and you’ll find yourself charmed by Tolstoy’s frankness. His frankness reveals something hidden in the relationship of a man and woman.