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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. One of the most prominent giants in literature Leo Tolstoy was famous for combining detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight.  He conveys to a reader the bare human intimacy of gestures, deeds and thoughts of the jealous psychic soul. His story Kreutzer Sonata examines the basic drives, emotions and motives of ordinary people searching for answers to the questions of life. One of them is that jealousy causes internal self-destruction.
            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? Jealousy. This emotion made his gut ache, his blood boil and his logic disappear along with common sense.  Pozdnyshev took jealousy and cast it into self-doubt, insecurity and desperation.  “During the whole of my married life I never ceased to be tormented by jealousy,” reveals his confession. (Tolstoy, p.189)
             As Webster’s Dictionary defines it, the word jealous means “suspiciously watchful; distrustful, or faithless; envious; anxiously solicitous.”(Outcry magazine, “Making the Most of Jealousy”)  All of these qualities drove the main character to the murder and absolute self-desecration.  His life is wretched, he has no motivating objectives left, no aspirations to follow, no goals to accomplish.  His children are taken away from him by his sister-in-law, and he is abandoned by the entire world.  In essence “The Kreutzer Sonata” presents a distorted view of love, especially of sexual experience. Pozdnyshev’s nightmarish, feverish narrative of his marriage in its later stages intensifies in rage and intelligence vanishes as a ravaging emotion of jealousy captures the utmost attention.