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Originally Posted by Sevigne
Why does Pierre tell his Masonic interlocutor that the love of women is his besetting sin? It's his damn passivity that gets him married to Helene & cheated by his stewards. It is his unwillingness or inability to make a decision that causes all his problems.
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Interesting question. Perhaps Pierre's passivity, his go-along attitude, represents the passivity and slowness to change of Russia itself. As to his statement about his besetting sin, Pierre did not understand himself very well. He perceived his problem as caused by how attractive he found women, including women who did not have his best interest at heart. His problem was not that women attracted him, but how he responded to that attraction.