- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this exchange, Bazarov is having a discussion with Anna Odintsov, a clever, wealthy young widow he and Arkady visit together. On one level, their conversation further sheds light on Bazarov’s nihilist beliefs. From Bazarov’s remarks about Arkady’s uncle Pavel earlier in the book, it’s already clear that he doesn’t see individual human characteristics as significant. The dissection of frogs tells us more, in his view, about humans as living beings than someone’s life story would do. And just like studying an individual frog, tree, or other natural specimen tells a scientist most of what he needs to know about…