Teddy Manfre
Ms. Blass
ENG 209-001
March 15, 2017
Ivan Ilyich’s Traumatic Death Leo Tolstoy is a Russian Realist who is known for being a great writer in the Nineteenth century. In one of his famous works “Death of Ivan Ilyich” he writes about a man named Ivan Ilyich who is a man with two important life values which are being a part of the high class, and being accepted by everyone around him. Being that Ivan Ilyich views himself as just a common person in his society, he is unsatisfied with that and tries to do everything in his power to considered “accepted”. However, that will soon be his downfall when Ivan Ilyich tries to improve the value of his house by hanging up nice curtains he takes an unfortunate fall. This traumatic event would …show more content…
Which is exactly what is slowly beginning to happen for Ivan Ilyich. Ivan Ilyich first thought the ongoing pain in his side from the fall was just a simple bruise. However, Ivan Ilyich ended up becoming more sick from the so called “bruise” and this brought out what he feared most in the world…facing death. He did not want to come to the reality to the fact that he was becoming Ill and states, “It Could not become ill health if Ivan Ilyich sometimes said that he had a queer taste in his mouth and felt discomfort in his left side” (Death of Ivan Ilyich 755). One can define this as the starting point to his depressed state of mind and loss of reality. Ivan Ilyich was trying to do everything in his power to find help or a cure to his disease. “Ivan Ilyich made efforts to force himself to think he was better” (Death of Ivan Ilyich 758). However, when he had to face the reality that the pain will not go away, ironically it caused a loss of reality he started to give up on finding the value in his life. One can say that the psychosis started to take full control over his normal personality, and began to literally kill him inside and out. Not only did it start effecting his life, but it also started to impact the lives of the people arounnd
Ms. Blass
ENG 209-001
March 15, 2017
Ivan Ilyich’s Traumatic Death Leo Tolstoy is a Russian Realist who is known for being a great writer in the Nineteenth century. In one of his famous works “Death of Ivan Ilyich” he writes about a man named Ivan Ilyich who is a man with two important life values which are being a part of the high class, and being accepted by everyone around him. Being that Ivan Ilyich views himself as just a common person in his society, he is unsatisfied with that and tries to do everything in his power to considered “accepted”. However, that will soon be his downfall when Ivan Ilyich tries to improve the value of his house by hanging up nice curtains he takes an unfortunate fall. This traumatic event would …show more content…
Which is exactly what is slowly beginning to happen for Ivan Ilyich. Ivan Ilyich first thought the ongoing pain in his side from the fall was just a simple bruise. However, Ivan Ilyich ended up becoming more sick from the so called “bruise” and this brought out what he feared most in the world…facing death. He did not want to come to the reality to the fact that he was becoming Ill and states, “It Could not become ill health if Ivan Ilyich sometimes said that he had a queer taste in his mouth and felt discomfort in his left side” (Death of Ivan Ilyich 755). One can define this as the starting point to his depressed state of mind and loss of reality. Ivan Ilyich was trying to do everything in his power to find help or a cure to his disease. “Ivan Ilyich made efforts to force himself to think he was better” (Death of Ivan Ilyich 758). However, when he had to face the reality that the pain will not go away, ironically it caused a loss of reality he started to give up on finding the value in his life. One can say that the psychosis started to take full control over his normal personality, and began to literally kill him inside and out. Not only did it start effecting his life, but it also started to impact the lives of the people arounnd