Timeline for What led Tolstoy to depict that a person would have a change of heart after throwing themselves under a train?
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 21:38 | vote | accept | Nathan Wailes | ||
| Mar 21, 2019 at 10:11 | answer | added | DrTyrsa | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 19:21 | history | edited | Tsundoku |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 16:15 | answer | added | jo1storm | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:27 | history | edited | Nathan Wailes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:19 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | I wonder to what extent Tolstoy’s own faith pushed him into giving Anna the benefit of redemption (via her change of heart and final prayer for forgiveness) rather than leaving her soul condemned to eternal Hell for taking her own life. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 3:45 | comment | added | Nathan Wailes | @Chappo Thanks for continuing to engage with me on this. My experience has been that 1) different writers can write for very different reasons, and 2) Tolstoy's goal in his works is to accurately depict what goes through a person's mind in various real-life situations. I haven't read HHGTTG but I suspect it's not comparable because I suspect Douglas Adams' goal was not to try to accurately depict reality. Also, I don't mean to imply that Tolstoy was certain of what goes through a person's mind when they're committing suicide; he may have been merely inferring/predicting it. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 3:26 | history | edited | Nathan Wailes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 3:19 | history | edited | Nathan Wailes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:46 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | I think your core premise - that Tolstoy was aware of what attempted suicides think - is wrong. In fact, even the suicide data itself is unreliable, since it is only based on failed attempts. Your question is akin to asking how Douglas Adams knew that the last thoughts of the bowl of petunias were 'Oh no, not again.' You're asking how when you should be asking why. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:31 | history | edited | Nathan Wailes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | Nathan Wailes | @Chappo Thanks for the feedback! I understand what you're saying, and I'm open to changing the title, but I feel like the title "Why did Tolstoy have Anna have a change of heart?" is also ambiguous, because it could be interpreted as implying that Tolstoy included that detail to evoke a particular reaction in the reader (as you seem to suggest yourself) rather than to simply depict what goes through a person's mind in such a situation, which I think is the more likely explanation. I think I'll change it to "How did Tolstoy know that someone would regret...". | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 1:39 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | This is a weird question: you're effectively asking how did the writer know what his characters were going to do? Answer: The writer made it up. Or, Tolstoy didn't know it until he came up with the idea and wrote it into the novel. Perhaps you could edit your question to ask instead why he gave Anna a change of heart. I very much doubt it was due to research on attempted suicides, but it's a good question in terms of how the reader is meant to react. | |
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| Mar 19, 2019 at 20:16 | history | asked | Nathan Wailes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |