Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 3
Andrei's first appearance at the soiree, world-weary and contemptuous of his pregnant wife Lise.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Prince Andrei, cold, intellectual, and Napoleon-worshipping, is Pierre's foil — a man whose disillusionment with glory ends in transcendent peace at his deathbed.
Volume I, Part 3, Chapter 16
The sky of Austerlitz: wounded Andrei gazes up at the infinite heavens and realizes Napoleon is small and life's striving is vain.
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The oak tree passage: Andrei first sees the bare, gnarled oak that mirrors his despair, then later finds it transformed and green — a symbol of spiritual rebirth.
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Andrei's death, having achieved a mystical, loving detachment from earthly attachments.
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