Resurrection

By Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection is dramatized as a fully realized dark narrative in which the cruelty of the world meets the myth of redemption, following the moral journey of Prince Nekhlyudov, who recognizes as a defendant on trial Katiusha Maslova, a woman he had loved and abandoned years earlier, leading to her social downfall. Seeking to take responsibility, he decides to follow her and make amends, despite her resistance and society's indifference, undergoing a deep inner purification as he witnesses the corruption of the justice system, social injustice and class inequality.