Question

Explain first volume of Tolstoy's war and peace published (my question is to anushika 11)

Answer 1

Although they are two of the novel's three male leads, Prince Andrei and Pierre Bezukhov rarely have substantial interactions. One exception to this occurs at the beginning of War and Peace, when Pierre and Andrei discuss the reasons that men go to war. Prince Andrei is very frank about the fact that men often go to war as a response to personal issues. By 'convictions,' he means the feelings of nationalism and ideological passion that Pierre thinks are the best (and only) reasons to go to war. Although Prince Andrei is naïve about some aspects of war, his observation that men often go to war out of self-interest rather than nationalism is reinforced by the many soldiers who appear in Volume I, Part 2. This theory, which suggests war is fed by individual desires, also fits in with Tolstoy's philosophy of history, in that every man who fights in then responsible for making history.