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An appreciation of Tolstoy's, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" requires the reader to grasp the image of the "ladder", from both a physical and a social- political perspective. In "The Death of Ivan Ilych", Leo Tolstoy examines the life of a man, Ivan, who would seem to have lived an exemplary life wealth, high statue, and family. However, Ivan's life will be shown to be devoid of passion, a life of duties, responsibilities, respect, work, and cold objectivity to everything and everyone around Ivan. It is not until Ivan is on his death bed in his final moments that he realizes what has become of his life. When you write on literature, write your thesis and not what the reader will do. He sees that he lived life with all its correctness. He did what was expected of him. He is not an isolated person in this materialistic society that lived like he did. They had to live this way. Tolstoy writes his autobiography, showing that a materialistic society makes people like Ilych
The life of Ivan Ilyic, as we are told, "had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible". In analyzing this description of Ivan's life, we see that Ivan has always done what is expected of him in the eyes of others wife, co-workers, employers. While Ivan believes his life has run easily, pleasantly, and decorously like it should, we see that in reality it is an unfulfilled life. Of all the things Ivan used to pride himself with was his professionalism as a court justice. Here the narrator explains in detail of how Ivan was able to detach himself from the emotional uncertainty surrounding a case. “He eliminates all considerations unrelated to the legal aspect of the case”. This portrays Ivan as cunning, calculating, with no interest or concern about emotional, social, or physical life. Who’s only concern was to process justice and not for the people his ruling affected. Ivan is mad to realize the effects of his unemotional...