Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilych

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The story The Death Of Ivan Ilych was very capturing and certainly tragic and of course sad.. It really made my mood change in many different directions, but mainly each and every word that Tolstoy had written made me visualize and realize how emotional this story truly is. Tolstoy, in this story uses a pretty simple language. The novella's main challenge comes from its themes and ideas; we are dealing with the meaning of life here after all. It seems that Ivan rectifies his life by dying. He finds that he wants to die now, not so much to put an end to his own sufferings, but to end the suffering of his family. His death itself can be seen as an act of compassion – possibly his first one. Well, maybe his second, since he also tries to set …show more content…
Many things changed for Ivan Ilyich after he got married to Praskovya Fyodorovna because he was not in love with her and after the marriage that is when he started living a life with lies which led him to his death. Towards the end of the novella Ivan Ilyich recalls all the pain he was causing his family; by all the suffering he was bringing to them, as they watch him died slowly every single day. In chapter 12 Ivan Ilyich says, “Yes, I’m making them miserable,” he said he was making them miserable because the family was sad to see him sick. At the end of the novella Ivan Ilyich died knowing he lived a life full of lies because he married a girl he did not liked, in novella he says that he hates her and that every time she touches him, she makes him “suffer from the thrill of hatred he feels for her,” paragraph
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