Ivan Llych's Reality

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Ivan Llych had to face a lot of reality during his finally days of live. He was a very successful man with a lot of accomplishments. Even his family had friends had to face reality right along with if you take a closer look at the text. Ivan Llych had finally face the reality of his life instead of the real that he thought in his head, let’s take a closer look. If you take a closer look at Tolstoy stated that, “what do you want?” “What do you want?” “He repeated to himself.” “What do I Want? “To live and not to suffer,” “he answered”. “And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not distract him” (pg 1298-1299)”. You can tell that in reality Llych really wanted to live and fight live his inner voice was telling him not to give up. You can also tell that Llych was very in turned with himself about the situation that he was in. Another example would be Why these sufferings?” “and the voice answered, for no reason- they just are so.” “Beyond and besides this there was nothing” (pg. 1300)”. Now you can see that Llych was questioning the reality as to why do we suffer when we die. It’s like many people still die only after a long and painful period of disease. Ivan llych shows you what some people go through when they’re dying. Tolstoy gets you thinking about your life and the meaning of it, are you living you’re as the …show more content…
In them he saw himself- all that for which he had lived- and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death” (1302). You can see that Ivan realized that the life that he was not real to him. Ivan that everything he didn’t over the years didn’t mean anything to him, like everything was a

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