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WAR And PEACE
Uber Ritter:
--- Quote from: SonofZ3 on 02 Feb 2008, 19:25 ---So far I've enjoyed everything in the book EXCEPT where Tolstoy inserts the bit about Pierre becoming mystified with Free Masonism (Masonry?) while waiting for post horses. I realize that Tolstoy was interested in the concept at the time, but I really felt it did little to help the character of Pierre, or any other part of the plot. Other than that I've been loving it, and the aforementioned prediction of me idolizing Andrei is 110% right. I have come to the conclusion that Andrei is the man, and the world simply isn't good enough for him.
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I think the whole Freemasonry thing gets bigger and starts to make sense as the novel progresses. Basically, it's all part of Pierre's grand arc of misadventure from being a scallawag who ties policemen to bears into...whatever he becomes.
SonofZ3:
okay fellow forumites, those of you who have read War and Peace and remember it (or have a few minutes and a copy laying around) might be able to help me here. Near the end of Volume three, on page 921 of my, the richard pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky, edition there is a scene where the wounded Andrei is laying in bed, having fever induced delirium about a needle edifice being built over his face. He is also imaging his shirt by the door is a sphinx, and first sees Natasha as a Sphinx. I've done well throughout the course so far analyzing Tolstoy and understand his symbolism, but this kinda lost me. I'm really not sure what Tolstoy is trying to get across with the Sphinx and needle edifice part, but I know War and Peace well enough not to just shrug it off and assume it doesn't mean anything. Any thoughts?
Uber Ritter:
Huh, been a while since I read it myself, so I have no clue. This is when Andrei is basically dying after Borodino, right?
SonofZ3:
yes, hes on the road and happens to be in the same hotel with Natasha, its the scene directly before and during their first reunion since their engagement had been broken off.
Uber Ritter:
I could always ask my friend who wrote her senior essay (50 or so pages) on War and Peace what she makes of it.
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