mooncustafer:

GUYS GUYS I THINK I KNOW WHAT THE THEME OF “WAR AND PEACE” IS. IT’S:

That said – even though Epilogue I could pretty much be read as “and most of the surviving characters got a reasonably happy ending,” it depressed me for some reason, maybe because it ended abruptly and sort of anticlimactically and was followed by a second epilogue in which Tolstoy recaps all the abstract historical-theory parts of the novel; maybe because Natasha and Sonya’s endings were “being happy being an ordinary matron and giving up her singing” and “being happy being a doormat.”