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| Jealousy as the cause of internal self-destruction in Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Ревность как причина внутреннего самоуничтожения в Крейцеровой сонате Льва Толстого)Jealousy as the cause of internal self-destruction in Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Ревность как причина внутреннего самоуничтожения в Крейцеровой сонате Льва Толстого)Jealousy as the cause of internal self-destruction In “Kreutzer Sonata” by Leo Tolstoy “Jealousy is a fear of someone else’s superiority.” Alexander Dumas The grand collection of the world literature grows faint from the
vast abundance of numerous approaches to the issue of jealousy and adultery
that have been accumulated throughout centuries by different authors. This
particular topic was used in Greek comedies, Roman tragedies, in writings
of later Romanticists and Realists. However, only in the nineteenth
century when psychology, developed within, the subject of jealousy in
literature that exaggerated love tales turned to deep psychological dramas
with characters soul-searching within the meticulous analysis of events. Prior to an analysis of the narrative of the story, where a jealous husband is presented, the nature of jealousy needs to be illuminated for the audience. After hearing the various theories on love by his fellow passengers on a train, an insanely jealous man named Pozdnyshev blurts out that he killed his wife, whom he suspected of carrying on an affair with a violinist. Then he reveals the story of how he came to such an extreme action. What turned his life into a misery full of disappointment, anger and
itchy craving that ruined his life as well as someone else’s life? As Webster’s Dictionary defines it, the word jealous means Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata” thrusts Pozdnyshev into ultimate degree
of jealousy that drives him to imminent self-destruction and to the villain
murder. Music is the most perfect form of art to grasp jealousy over the
mind. It is detached from the hierarchy of all other arts by not dwelling
above them but by creating its own unique world. Music does not reflect
either ugliness of life or sufferings generated by it. Music, through the
fact of its existence drives off everything that is anxious and annoying. Pozdnyshev claims that it was just one part of Beethoven’s masterpiece that propels his suspicion to grow into a firm belief in his wife infidelity. Psychologists suggest that men react to jealousy with anger towards their sexual partner and the third party and are more miserable by sexual impropriety than by mental perfidiousness. Sexual jealousy is the threat or perceived threat to a relationship between two individuals who are physically or sexually involved. (Final Exam: Sociobiological Aspects of Sexual Jealousy) Jealousy and murder grow out of and are really at one with, the sexual attraction, which brought Pozdnyshev and his wife together in the first place, and which held their marriage together. Pozdnyshev accentuates that specifically the first presto of the “Kreutzer Sonata” is a very solid, yet unobtrusive piece of music. It
is flowing into the mood, brightens it up and softens down. The first
presto is not long, yet it reflects a sinful abundance of passion. Indeed,
the dialogue of the violin and the piano amazes with its vivacity and
glorification of feelings. It overwhelms and subdues emotions from the
very first loud piano’s accords and violin singing its second part to piano
on the contrary in a tender, twittering tone. Then piano is flying into
crescendo and as if waiting for the imminent amalgamation of two hearts
into sweet harmony of an increasing rhythm, it decides to cease to a
voluptuous retreat. But prior to the immediate withdrawal it sends
sensuous hints of the near victory to the violin. And if though the violin
senses this hesitation it falls into flirting, mischievous playfulness. This professedly was the Pozdnyshev’s vision of the Kreutzer Sonata and his interpretation of the performance. Was it correct? Tolstoy never gives any explicit and clear depiction of the alleged affair. However, very animating and present in Pozdnyshev’s mind, this rendition of music generated into unrestrained beast of jealousy that drove him gradually yet inevitably to self-destruction and a murder as a consequence of own moral degradation.
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