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Leo Tolstoy’s books The Death of Ivan Ilych and A Confession, the Gospel Brief and What I Believe show very similar experiences and thought processes between Ivan Ilych and Tolstoy himself. It is arguable that when writing The Death of Ivan Ilych, Tolstoy reflected himself into Ilych’s character and life. This is evident in both men’s early experiences, thoughts and beliefs, morals, and overall questioning and understanding of life’s existence. Very soon did Tolstoy write that he wanted to be the best in the eyes of the people. He mostly made his life choices based upon what he thought the people around him would approve. Tolstoy expresses this as, “…the desire to be better not in my own eyes or those of God but in the eyes of other people…this…

The Positive Impact of Leo Tolstoy “I love many things, I love many people.” These were the last words of Leo Tolstoy. Throughout his entire life, Tolstoy lived by those words as he became whom the world knows as ‘the greatest writer of the 19th century’. Leo Tolstoy positively impacted society by teaching: to make a difference, expand one's social circle, and to keep an open mind. Leo Tolstoy taught to make a difference. For a man of the upper class, Tolstoy made a notable…

If there is one court case that captured all issues of class, gender and race in the 1910s, the famous Leo Frank Case in Atlanta, Georgia, truly represents that. In the article “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism,” author Nancy MacLean discussed the turbulent court case, which was from the beginning, designed to find a Jewish wealthy businessman named Leo Frank guilty, simply because of racial hatred by southern whites, the growth of…

LEO FRANK Last night, August, 16, 1915, Leo frank was lynched by the prominent citizens of Marietta. Leo frank was put into court after the murder of Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain. Mary Went to Frank’s pencil factory to get her $1.20 that he’d owe her from the twelve hours she worked that week. Frank was the last person to see her alive. The young lady was found in the cellar by the night watchman, Newt Lee. He called the police, and told…

Leo Tolstoy’s masterful novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych addresses the formation and continuation of cultural norms on a superficial society, propelled by wide-spread acceptance of unjust, unfulfilling means to happiness. The piece follows the life, and death, of Ivan Ilych, a dreadfully mundane man in a overbearing society, disillusioned by severe sickness and left alone to deal with the consequences of such discoveries. Tolstoy’s work successfully integrates the life of a judge as the means…

Leo Tolstoy wrote: The Death of Ivan Ilyich in 1886 to show his view of how life should be, how we all should live, and what actually matter most at the end of everything. According to Tolstoy, there are 2 ways to live life; one is by outer appearance which are propriety, decorum, and standards of conduct, and second, inner appearances, and spiritual life which are “the real thing” that makes one’s life worthwhile. Insincere life style is the first way human can choose to live and it is shown…

The presence of challenging circumstances in literature, in most cases, serves the purpose of teaching the reader a lesson. Authors use these lessons to illustrate the ideas and messages they are attempting to shine light on in their works. Writers will often use the assistance of a character’s persona, as well as, a character’s response to the difficult situation that they encounter in a story in order for the lesson to be better perceived by the reader. The ideas and messages are meant to, in…

He was afraid of that sack, yet wanted to fall through” (99). The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy, is the story of a man who cares for nothing but worldly achievements and self-seeking happiness. Completely engrossed in his career, Ivan gives no thought to his spiritual life, and, as a result, the idea of death never crosses his mind—until death knocks on his door. When death stares Ivan in the face and laughs at his helplessness , Ivan can do nothing but pity himself, seeing no escape from…

Leo Tolstoy and James Joyce both use the aspect of light and darkness as symbols in their stories to represent the characters and their feelings. In The Death of Ivan and Ilyich, one of the symbols Tolstoy uses is the black sack. This sack was a long narrow sack that was never ending and the character in the story, Ivan, experiences going through this black sack twice. The first time he experiences going through this sack was right after he was given a medicine, opium. Ivan falls into the black…

PopeLeoX The last Pope elected who was not a priest was Pope Leo X. Today, all elected Popes must have been a Cardinal over the age of thirty-five and speak at least three languages. 313 A.D. is when it is believed to be the first real Pope to be elected In over 2000 years and 266 Popes elected one Pope stood out to me, Pope Leo X. Pope Leo X's first three years as Pope were uneventful. But looking back, before he was "Pope Leo X", he received awards as young as the age of seven and followed in…