Abstract
According to Julia Kristeva, ‘... any text is an intertext – the site of an intersection of numberless other texts’ (Kristeva, 1966 as cited in Haberer, 2007). Inspired by and extended from Priscilla Meyer’s journal article Anna Karenina: Tolstoy’s polemic with Madame Bovary corroborating the possibility of Leo Tolstoy being inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in writing Anna Karenina, the present study is a comparative analysis of these two masterpieces exploring their resemblance to claim the latter as an echo of the formerly written; Madame Bovary. As the preliminary stage of the study, the two texts were closely read and analyzed individually. Subsequently, the texts were studied comparatively to identify their similarities. The study led to the discovery that Anna Karenina bears a significant resemblance to Madame Bovary in four dimensions: the plot, themes, characterization and character development, and style. This study is intended to be a foundation for prospective comparative studies based on the two novels.
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