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Comparative Analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

Salvation in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...

Life's Meaning in 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In two pages the implications of the social treatment Tolstoy's protagonist received are discussed. There is no bibliography incl...

Living Well and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

Recognition and Reversal in War by Luigi Pirandello and 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

is no more deep than what lies beneath the layers of his skin -- an aspect of his personality that is readily recognized by all; i...

Comparison of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death Of Ivan Ilyich'

In five pages this paper examines how the characters of Emma Bovary and Ivan Ilych struggle to give their lives in decline meaning...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

then the damage to his children had been done. And, perhaps the only hope for them was to arrive at the sense of enlightenment tha...

August Wilson and Leo Tolstoy

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Comparing and Contrasting 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy and 'The Metaphorphosis' by Franz Kafka

to assist him in his most basic needs, provides the kind of care and understanding required by the dying and increasingly isolated...

Blinded by Class in 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...

Short Story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a sig...

Death of Ivan Ilych and The Iliad

the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...

Ivan Ilych

unpleasant an endeavor that they simply dispense with it as hastily as possible; they make small talk as effortless as eye-blinkin...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Life's Meaning in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka and 'Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

In 4 pages this paper examines how life's meaning is conveyed through physical and spiritual changes in a contrasting of these two...

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Characters from "On Golden Pond" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

This research report examines various characters in each of these works. Both the film and novel are explored and Ivan in Tolstoy'...

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Self Discovery Journeys in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo, Leo Tolstoy, and Henrik Ibsen

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

Death of Ivan & Faust

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselve...