Love hinders death

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace overflows with these sorts of contrasts and concepts: necessity and freedom; 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; Napolean and Kutuzov; grief and elation; consciousness and reason, tutors and nannies; burning; looting; wolf hunts and vodka; winter. Russian gentlemen who survived the war seemed more flexible, practical, even kinder; women who endured losses appeared to cope through developing a narrowly moral, even rigid framework.