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From Volume I, Part II, Chapter 10 to Volume I, Part III, Chapter 13
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A terrifying moment with Rostov again, just like when we saw him at the burning-of-the-bridge scene. We see again how his mood transitioned from excitement to horror. Is he a coward? Running away from the enemy? Some might think so. But he is also only sixteen, brought up in luxury with the love of his parents and friends, and now for the first time he is facing these strange people who wanted to kill him. To kill him, can you imagine? He cannot. What a terrifying moment when you find yourself alone on the battlefield, without a horse, injured, and you see somebody coming, and you thought he would be your savior but it slowly dawned on you that he is an enemy and he is coming to end your life. And you run - because you are only a boy in a grownup’s game.
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Back to the drawing room again! Pierre is a changed person now - not so much to himself, but to everyone else. “A host of people who had never wanted to know of his existence before but would have been hurt and offended now if he had refused to see them.” We see a comical scene of how Pierre is forced into marriage by Prince Vasily, by everybody around him, and most importantly, by himself. -baidu 1point3acres
Nikolay & Boris: a study in contrast. We all change after we part with our childhood friends, and we don’t realize how much we changed until we meet again. Theirs is not a happy meeting, and I have a feeling that they will drift further and further apart. In the end, we’re not children anymore..google и
A vivid picture of military action as the movement of a clock. A solemn observation -- “...the slow tick-tock of the age-old hands on the clock face of human history.” We already knew the outcome of this battle, as history stands, this battle would lead to a Russian defeat. We now look back, to see the clock of history inevitably tick tock to this fateful outcome, one movement led to another, all the way to the end.
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“...in a similar way the complex action of humanity in those 160,000 Russians and Frenchmen -- all their passions, longings, regrets, humiliation and suffering, their rushes of pride, fear and enthusiasm -- only worked its way out in defeat at the battle of Austerlitz, known as the battle of the three Emperors, the slow tick-tock of the age-old hands on the clock face of human history.”
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Volume I, Part III, Chapter 14 to Volume II, Part II, Chapter 3
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From Volume I, Part III, Chapter 14 to Volume II, Part II, Chapter 3
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Everything started so quickly. Andrey’s obsessive idea of leading men into battle, the almost pathetic picture of him holding the flag and wishing people would follow him, while everybody is running away in the opposite direction. People getting shot at left and right, soldiers fighting and forgetting their guns. And then he is falling…and everything fades before the infinite sky above.
“The dead and wounded lay about everywhere like heaps of manure on good plough-land…” -- no glory in death in a losing battle (or any battle, really). The death in real wars, much unlike the imagined death in soldiers’ heads, is not in the embrace of the monarch, not leading men to victory, but in an obscure little town, surrounded by falling cannonballs and smoke, looking like manure.
How strange fate is indeed, that Andrey should arrive just the moment when his son is born, and just the moment to witness the little princess’ death. To see her one last time, and to imprint the look in her eyes, and to read the reproachful message in them: “look what you've done to me?”
Andrey feels the guilt - from not being able to help her in her moment of great agony, from his past love for her, and I think maybe most importantly, from the fact that he knows he doesn't love her anymore but now she had to die for their child.
The visit home ends on a unceremonious tone - we started on a high note: the lavish dinner, the love in the air, and then all downhill from there: the duel, the death of a new mother, the refused proposal, the rejected love, the gamble.
The meeting with the freemason right at the moment when Pierre is having an existential crisis - the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. The initiation - all so strange, exciting, and ridiculous. Something to note is that Pierre thinks obedience is more of a pleasure than a virtue. How fitting. He indeed loves to take orders from others, loves to believe what others tell him, and finds himself in complete confusion when there is nobody to tell him what to do anymore.
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“The mason looked closely at Pierre and smiled the smile of a rich man with millions in his hands beaming at some poor wretch who might have said to him that all he needed as a poor man was five roubles to make him happy.”
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From Volume II, Part II, Chapter 4 to Volume II, Part III, Chapter 15
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