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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn Anna Karenina, the writer finds many oppositions enveloping the two
female characters Anna Karenina and Dolly Scherbatsky. She believes that from
these oppositions, the novel tries to deliver a message concerning the ideal woman;
whether she exists or not and if she does, what she is like. Therefore, the writer
decides to contrast Anna and Dolly by using literary approach and structuralism as
the theory. Since the study deals mainly with oppositions, binary opposition is
considered as the perfect tool to be applied in this situation. The concept of ideal
woman from two very different points of view: from the orthodox and the feminists,
is also used. In the analysis, the writer contrasts the two characters? lives, their
decisions, their qualities and how they are perceived by others. From the analysis
the writer can conclude that the idea of whether a woman is ideal or not is
subjective, meaning that it depends on the observers. Both Anna and Dolly are ideal
in their own way. However, even the most ideal woman is not perfect, meaning that
she also has flaws. It is just that sometimes they are shown and sometimes they are
not.