Writing book reports isn’t an easy work. First of all you should read the book, understand it and find some of its features. Here we give you some thinking on Tolstoy's epic novel “War and Peace”.

Philosophical, historical novel, Tolstoy's epic “War and Peace” isn’t just a novel and also contains historical and psychological features. Page after page it reveals to the reader the characters of Tolstoy in their similarity and diversity, static or changeableness. One of the most valuable properties of human Tolstoy considered the ability to internal change, striving for perfection, the moral search. Favorite characters of Tolstoy changed their nature, Tolstoy didn’t love statics. The psychological picture: the past is extremely simple, and in many respects they resemble each other. It is significant that they are all beautiful, but pretty lifeless, “frozen beauty”. They are always the same. For a psychological analysis of these heroes, the author uses repetitive parts, and many times some events take place before the reader, causing irritation: flat smug face of Prince Vassily, curls handsome Anatole, marble-white bare shoulders Helene.

In contrast to the unloved favorite characters of Tolstoy generally have unattractive appearance but endowed with inner beauty. They are capable of self-improvement, to the moral and spiritual quest. They tend to self-analysis. Recall the behavior of the novel's characters during the battle of Schon Grabern. Real heroes for those of Tolstoy are those, whose appearance emphasized all “non heroic” who blame their self, not others who are humble and honest. Tushin Timokhin, Prince Andrew, who overcomes his fear of the characters. Boastful and arrogant Zherkov just seems a hero.

Ability to excel shows the author as an example of Pierre and Andrei. In the search for the true, essential, enduring in life, they are gradually moving from the influence of false values. Pierre was disappointed in Freemasonry, Prince Andrew in the public service.

Tolstoy was the first in Russian literature, who depicted the moments of change in mental states of his characters, has opened what later Chernyshevsky called "the dialect of the soul". Recall, for example, that scene in the novel, in which Nikolai loses to Dolokhov a huge amount of money, goes home in a state of emotional turmoil and then he hears Natasha’s singing and understands that this singing is always important, but everything else is transitory. Prince Andrew to such moments of emotional change is Austerlitz with his son's illness and the sky with a canopy over the cot under which Prince Andrew opens a new perspective on life.

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