Love hinders death

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace overflows with these sorts of contrasts and concepts: chance and genius; attack and retreat, hopes of young and old during war; faith and debt; French troops and Russians troops; leadership bold and leadership true; Napoleon and Kutuzov; grief and elation; consciousness and reason, necessity and freedom; tutors and nannies; burning; looting; wolf hunts and vodka; winter. Russian gentlemen who survived the war seem more flexible, practical, kinder; women who endured losses cope through developing a narrowly moral, even rigid framework.