Just as the vastness of the taiga defeated Napoleon, the bagginess of Tolstoy's epic defeats King Vidor to some extent. He must choose, and focuses on a triad: awkward Count Pierre, his ill-fated friend Prince Andrei, and his destined wife Nataha, "not pretty but full of life", a role outshone by actress Audrey Hepburn. I appreciate elision of so many characters and their diminutives and less confusing Countesses Natalya Rostova with Natalia Ilyinichna.
Pierre is a true seeker. There is not time for his freemasonry (and freeing of his serfs) and reading of Revelation. Only in prison soes he meet a wise man. Natasha smiles at the disguise he adopts in order to assasinate Napoleon. If we are attentive to functions of marriage in European history we will see a link between love and war, land and family.
Pierre is a true seeker. There is not time for his freemasonry (and freeing of his serfs) and reading of Revelation. Only in prison soes he meet a wise man. Natasha smiles at the disguise he adopts in order to assasinate Napoleon. If we are attentive to functions of marriage in European history we will see a link between love and war, land and family.
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