THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution

#1) how is the Revolution portrayed through the principal characters of the novel?

On a exterior grade, Pasternak's innovative is set throughout the era of the Russian transformation, beginning with the abortive uprising of 1905 and expanding through the municipal War of 1918-1923 and the base of the Soviet Union. In a similar way, Zhivago can be understood as a agent figure of the Silver Age of Russia. This amazing blaze of heritage glory immediately preceded the outbreak of World WarI. There are autobiographical components in Doctor Zhivago, as well. The juvenile Pasternak published his first verses in 1913, the identical time period as his hero's literary approaching of age. And just as Zhivago was to be consumed by love for Lara in the novel, so too would a passionate connection depart its mark on Pasternak's emotional life. In 1946, just as he started work on the novel, Pasternak met and dropped in love with Olga Ivanskaia, who served as the form for his heroine, Lara. (Wade 2005)

#2) is Pasternak sympathetic with the Revolution or critical of it?

Doctor Zhivago, although, is not a innovative about the Russian Revolution. Nor is it mainly an autobiographical work. Doctor Zhivago is a publication about life and dwelling, about adoring and being loved. In the Russian dialect, the origin for Zhivago's name is the phrase zhiv, significance “life” or “living.” Taking a diametrically distinct approach to that of Marxist ideology, Zhivago rejects abstract ideas about the Russian Revolution. In a moving scene, Zhivago interprets his outlooks to Lara:

#3) How are the various classes (working class, middle class, and upper class) portrayed in Dr. Zhivago?

“The revolution smashed out involuntarily, like breath held for too long. Everyone revived, was reborn, in everyone there are transformations, upheavals. You might say that everyone went through two revolutions, one his own, personal, and the other general. It seems to me that socialism is a ocean into which all these individual, distinct revolutions should flow, the sea of life, the ocean of originality. The ocean of life, I said, the life that can be seen in paintings, life affected by genius, life creatively enriched. But now people have decided to test it, not in books, but in them, not in abstraction, but in practice.” (Tames 2001)

#4) how are women portrayed in Pasternak's novel?

Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the Bolsheviks on the grave of Tsarist Russia and that is how he sees women in his novel as an individual. Where Zhivago inquiries his every deed from the viewpoint of conscience, left-wing managers like Lara's husband, Pasha Antipov, who styles himself as Strelnikov or “Shooter,” murder without blinking or thinking. (Robert Service 2005)

#5) what greater symbolic purpose do the women in Dr. Zhivago's life serve?

The narrator celebrates women for chopping trees and construction roads and "achieving prodigies of resourcefulness." yet as an one-by-one, lara points out to zhivago, "you were granted wings to ...