The document is a summary of a scene from the play "Anna Karenina" by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. It takes place inside a moving coach, where Anna's despair has solidified after her affair has come to light. Karenin, her husband, tries to pretend nothing important has happened and brings up irrelevant topics. When he confronts Anna about behaving improperly by showing emotion when Vronsky's horse fell during a race, she openly admits that she loves and is the mistress of Vronsky and hates her husband.
The document is a summary of a scene from the play "Anna Karenina" by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. It takes place inside a moving coach, where Anna's despair has solidified after her affair has come to light. Karenin, her husband, tries to pretend nothing important has happened and brings up irrelevant topics. When he confronts Anna about behaving improperly by showing emotion when Vronsky's horse fell during a race, she openly admits that she loves and is the mistress of Vronsky and hates her husband.
The document is a summary of a scene from the play "Anna Karenina" by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. It takes place inside a moving coach, where Anna's despair has solidified after her affair has come to light. Karenin, her husband, tries to pretend nothing important has happened and brings up irrelevant topics. When he confronts Anna about behaving improperly by showing emotion when Vronsky's horse fell during a race, she openly admits that she loves and is the mistress of Vronsky and hates her husband.
The document is a summary of a scene from the play "Anna Karenina" by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. It takes place inside a moving coach, where Anna's despair has solidified after her affair has come to light. Karenin, her husband, tries to pretend nothing important has happened and brings up irrelevant topics. When he confronts Anna about behaving improperly by showing emotion when Vronsky's horse fell during a race, she openly admits that she loves and is the mistress of Vronsky and hates her husband.
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ANNA KARENINA
Written by Tom Stoppard
Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. INT. MOVING COACH--DAY
Anna's hysteria has solidified into a blank despair. Karenin seems to want to pretend that nothing important has happened.
KARENIN Yo know . . . they say the !mperor dis" approves of the ra#es . . . the danger of in$ry . . . bt % . . .
Anna looks at him #ontemptosly.
ANNA What&
KARENIN %'m saying there is a vale in manly sport' for the military""
107 ANNA % don't nderstand.
KARENIN %n my opinion' it's not the sport itself that's wrong' it's the spe#ta#le' it's making a #rel spe#ta#le ot of""
ANNA What are yo talking abot&
Karenin #hanges ta#k.
KARENIN % have to tell yo""
ANNA Yes.
KARENIN % have to tell yo' yo behaved improperly today.
ANNA And how was that&
She has raised her voi#e. (e raises a warning finger' and rea#hes to #lose the #ommni#ation window behind the #oa#hman's bo).
KARENIN By making plain yor feelings when one of the riders fell. Yor #ond#t was improper. %t mst not o##r again. % have said it before.
Anna smiles faintly. (e is misled by that.
108 KARENIN (CONT'D) Yo are going to say my #on#ern is nne#es" sary and ridi#los. Yo are my wife. % am wrong to think that . . . yes""perhaps % was mistaken.
Anna looks at him despairingly.
ANNA *o' yo were not mistaken. % love him. % am his mistress. % #an't bear yo' %'m afraid of yo' % hate yo. +o what yo like to me.
