Anna Karenina's basic karmic theme is that love nor
happiness can ever occur if it involves sacrificing the feelings of others. In other
words, only self-sacrifice (not sacrificing your family, current lover or husband,
children, or others around you) is the causative factor of
happiness.
Under this umbrella you find several other
themes in Anna Karenina which are directly linked to that statement: Infidelity,
abandonment, treason, jealousy, hypocrisy (societal), and the ardent furor of lust which
is often confused with love.
Anna's curse was that she left
those who loved her to follow a man she went crazy in love for. She found in him the
ardent furor described before, as well as he did. He was a dandy and heart breaker who
needed his next prey. She was the easiest of preys. In the end, both realize that what
bound them together was temporary, yet, they had single handedly changed and ruined the
lives of those whom had to endure their decisions. Hence, she ended her
life.
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