Question by omgshdevinsradx: What is an intelligent book in which the main theme is infidelity?
For extra credit, I need to find a book that has a similar theme to Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary — which is infidelity and what it causes. Any suggestions?
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Answer by Persiphone_Hellecat
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternack. You will love it. What a beautiful love story.
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‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ and ‘Daniel Martin’ both by John Fowles. Two very different books but both are richly textured with more to them than just the bare bones of fidelity and infidelity.
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Well, there’s Les Liasons Dangereuse, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, which definitely incorporates infidelity, among other things. Infidelity, lust, cruelty, all that stuff, leading to the ruination of all the characters in the book. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in which a young woman is engaged to one man, marries another. Her husband keeps a mistress, while her former fiance tries to convince her to run away with him. Eventually, she kills the mistress by accident, and as a result, her true love is shot, and the world falls apart. Then there is Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, in which the main character falls in love with his wife’s cousin, but is unable to run away with her, so they attempt joint suicide and are crippled for life. Other titles include
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
Dr Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak