Resurrection · Concept
Moral awakening
Nekhludoff’s jury duty recognizes Katusha Maslova — guilt from seducing her years ago launches a long attempt at moral resurrection.
Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff serves on jury and sees Maslova, now prostitute accused of murder in brothel frame-up. Memory of youthful seduction and abandonment floods him; he vows to follow her through legal hell and marry her if needed. Awakening is not instant saintliness — he backslides, feels disgust, learns humility by stages across three books.
Tolstoy ties personal repentance to institutional critique: court, church, land ownership fail Maslova before Nekhludoff arrives. Resurrection title means spiritual rebirth via action — freeing peasants’ land, facing bureaucrats, listening to prisoners. Use concept to track Nekhludoff’s diary-like moral oscillation, not single conversion scene.