Leonie Anna Mueck and Johannes Heymer<\/p>\n
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Staudinger Weg 9, D-55128 Mainz, Germany<\/address>\nEberhard Karls University, Tuebingen<\/address>\n <\/address>\n <\/address>\n <\/address>\nJournal of Unsolved Questions<\/strong>, 1<\/strong>, 2, Open Questions, 10-12, 2011 (Received June 25th 2011, accepted July 14th 2011, published July 18th 2011)<\/address>\n\n<\/address>\n“That for which nearly a year had been Vrosnky\u2019s sole and exclusive desire , supplanting all his former desire: That for which Anna had been impossible, dreadful, but all the more betwiching dream of happiness, had come to pass. Pale, with trembling lower jaw, he stood over her, entreating her to be calm, himself not knowing how nor why. … `It\u2019s all over?, she said. `I have nothing but you left. Remember that.?”[1]<\/p>\n
Anna Karenina is one of the most prominent and at the same time most tragic adulterers in world literature. What begins as passionate but forbidden love between her and Alexey Vronsky leads to years of ostracism and finally reaches its climax in Anna Karenina\u2019s suicide. In the above scene, where the sexual aspect\u00a0 of their relationship cannot be overlooked, Anna Karenina already foretells her fate:\u00a0 “It\u2019s all over”.<\/p>\n
The novel is a grand example of\u00a0 how individuals are torn apart between the social imperative of monogamy and their intrinsic passions. Monogamy is indeed a puzzling social construct, since there seem to be two incompatible souls in us: Our wish for intimacy, consistency, and security on the one hand and our adventurous desires on the other. Some scientists interpret these two souls in a way that suggests that our own evolutionary biology is in conflict with norms and imperatives imposed on us by society and culture. […]<\/p>\n
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Leonie Anna Mueck and Johannes Heymer Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Staudinger Weg 9, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen Journal of Unsolved Questions, 1, 2, Open Questions, 10-12, 2011 (Received June 25th 2011, accepted July 14th 2011, published July 18th 2011) “That for which nearly a year had been Vrosnky\u2019s sole… Read More »What is the role of Epidemiological Factors in Shaping the Social Imperative of Monogamy?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}