In this work, an old man who says "the first rule for the wife should be fear" and "the feminine sex must be dominated" is derisively called a Domostroy. Later, another character argues that doctors pervert the young by teaching them the rules of hygiene, and compares the number of abortions to the amount of people killed by the Inquisition. The protagonist argues that men only admire the outer form of women, and states that people are motivated by animal passions instead of love. The protagonist tells the narrator that he and his wife enlisted their children Lise and Basile as allies, and recounts returning to his house at midnight from a session of the Zemstvo, where he kills his wife with a dagger upon seeing her with the musician Troukhatchevsky. Narrated by Pozdnyshev, FTP, name this novella set on a train, a work by Leo Tolstoy named for a composition by Be
In this work, an old man who says "the first rule for the wife should be fear" and "the feminine sex must be dominated" is derisively called a Domostroy. Later, another character argues that doctors pervert the young by teaching them the rules of hygiene, and compares the number of abortions to the amount of people killed by the Inquisition. The protagonist argues that men only admire the outer form of women, and states that people are motivated by animal passions instead of love. The protagonist tells the narrator that he and his wife enlisted their children Lise and Basile as allies, and recounts returning to his house at midnight from a session of the Zemstvo, where he kills his wife with a dagger upon seeing her with the musician Troukhatchevsky. Narrated by Pozdnyshev, FTP, name this novella set on a train, a work by Leo Tolstoy named for a composition by Beethoven.
In this work, an old man who says "the first rule for the wife should be fear" and "the feminine sex must be dominated" is derisively called a Domostroy.
“The {Kreutzer Sonata}”