Entropy in Marriage
How can one live a life without having entropy in it? Entropy to me means having disorder in life, having chaos or having something that is not considered normal. By that I mean is one might have a dysfunctional family or marriage, but in public they seem to show that they are perfect. In the novella “The death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy discusses how Ivan Ilych is shown to have a great life, his father had money, he was a public prosecutor, he married a beautiful women and had children. But even having all this, his life was far from normal,his marriage was a disaster and his death came so sudden.
It is such a tragedy when death comes around in someone’s family especially with loved ones. We might reconsider how we lived life and how we can consider if we took life for granted or not. Death is promised to us all but what is not promised is how or when it will come. For Ivan Ilych 's many did not expect his death to come so soon. “But what really was the matter with him?” “The doctors couldn’t say-- at least they could, but each of them said something different. When I last saw him I thought he was getting better.” (Tolstoy 16) His life had been the most simple, most ordinary and most terrible one of all. He was diagnosed with a …show more content…
He blamed his wife for every little detail that would bother him and his wife would put up with it, soon realizing that it was because of a physical derangement. “She regarded this self-restraint as highly as praiseworthy. Having come to the conclusion that her husband had a dreadful temper and made her life miserable, she began to feel sorry for herself, and the more she pitied herself the more she hated her husband.” (Tolstoy 35) Ivan Ilych wife hated him and the only reason that she didn’t want him to die was because then his salary would cease, and not even his death would save
How can one live a life without having entropy in it? Entropy to me means having disorder in life, having chaos or having something that is not considered normal. By that I mean is one might have a dysfunctional family or marriage, but in public they seem to show that they are perfect. In the novella “The death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy discusses how Ivan Ilych is shown to have a great life, his father had money, he was a public prosecutor, he married a beautiful women and had children. But even having all this, his life was far from normal,his marriage was a disaster and his death came so sudden.
It is such a tragedy when death comes around in someone’s family especially with loved ones. We might reconsider how we lived life and how we can consider if we took life for granted or not. Death is promised to us all but what is not promised is how or when it will come. For Ivan Ilych 's many did not expect his death to come so soon. “But what really was the matter with him?” “The doctors couldn’t say-- at least they could, but each of them said something different. When I last saw him I thought he was getting better.” (Tolstoy 16) His life had been the most simple, most ordinary and most terrible one of all. He was diagnosed with a …show more content…
He blamed his wife for every little detail that would bother him and his wife would put up with it, soon realizing that it was because of a physical derangement. “She regarded this self-restraint as highly as praiseworthy. Having come to the conclusion that her husband had a dreadful temper and made her life miserable, she began to feel sorry for herself, and the more she pitied herself the more she hated her husband.” (Tolstoy 35) Ivan Ilych wife hated him and the only reason that she didn’t want him to die was because then his salary would cease, and not even his death would save