Summary
“Dr. Zhivago” tells the story of Zhivago, a man torn between his loves for two women while caught in the tumultuous course of twentieth century Russian history. Zhivago’s mother dies when he is still a young boy, and he is raised by his uncle. He enrolls at the university in Moscow, studying medicine. There he meets Tonya, and then they marry and have a son, Sasha.
For many years Zhivago becomes a medical officer in the army and is stationed in a small town. He meets Lara, a woman whom he has seen twice before. The first time, he visited the house of a woman who tried to commit suicide, and he saw Lara, the woman's daughter, exchanging glances with an older man, Komarovsky. The second time, Lara tried to shoot Komarovsky at a party and instead wounded a prosecutor from the courts. Lara is married to Pasha, a young soldier who is missing, and she has come west to find him. She has a daughter, Katya, whom she has left in Yuryatin, her birthplace in the Urals. And then Zhivago and Lara meet again, during the work they fall in love, but soon they are forced separation, Zhivago returns to hometown by oneself.
Before long he leaves Tonya, he begins living with Marina, the daughter of a family friend. He and Marina have two children. Zhivago’s old friends Misha and Nicky encourage him to resolve his divided loyalties toward Tonya and Marina. He finds a new job but on the way to his first day at work he dies of a heart attack. Lara comes to the funeral and asks Zhivago’s half-brother, a lawyer, if there is any way to track the location of a child given away to strangers. She stays for several days and then disappears, likely dying in a concentration camp. Years later, Misha and Nicky are fighting in World War II and encounter a laundry-girl, Tanya, who tells them her life story. They determine that she is the daughter of Lara and Zhivago.
“Dr. Zhivago” is a popular novel and that has been made into a film, it talks bout the October revolution of Russia, people who lives narrow circumstances, and discrimination, therefore, lives in the unfair and unjust treat. Persecution of suffering makes the novelist writing this novel. After, this film once got Nobel Prize.
