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An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Levin's View of the Future in Anna Karenina

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

Novels Featuring Russian Society and Culture

story we have "Yevgeny Vassilyitch Bazarov, a nihilistic young medical school graduate and Arkadys closest friend. Arrogant and ru...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

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...

Women's Roles in 6 Great Works of Literature

In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Life and Writings of Leo Tolstoy

problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quic...

Heroines in Literature and How They Have Evolved

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...

A Rogerian Perspective Documentary

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

Analyzing a Passage from Anna Karenina

and Anna is propelled in the middle of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusua...

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...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka

successful than Gregor and supported his family. But as his story develops he begins to envision how his life has been pointless, ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...

Ivan Ilych

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

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

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...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

Comparative Analysis of Octavio Paz and Leo Tolstoy

Octavio Pazs story, My Life with The Wave, is that a man falls in love with a wave from the ocean and brings it home to live with ...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

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. ...

Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

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...

Morality, Relationships, and Motivations in Works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In five pages a comparison between these two authors and the depiction of morality, relationships, and motivations are considered ...