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One thought: Tolstoy often has characters that experience a revelation. That's the way the book ends if I'm not mistaken. This usually is a long, slow, painful process that only comes to fruition as the man(and it's almost always a man) gets into his later years and has made a few mistakes in getting there. Along the way there is a questioning of God, but in the end, Tolstoy puts across a pretty strong pro-God(not necessarily religious although he was Christian(I think)) message. [You might want to think about how Tolstoy himself plays God in getting into so many characters heads and the ways their lives run their courses.] It's the spiritually enlightened who find true happiness. Love, power and wealth do not make their posessors happy in War and Peace.
That's kind of long and rambly, but I haven't read the book for a few years. When it come down to it you have to write the essay. Hopefully you can get a spark or two from this. Good Luck!
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