Leo Tolstoy

One Romantic poem is by Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death” while one Realist story is “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy. In reading these two texts side by side on can conclude that are both alike and different, while death comes for us all. They are alike in the way death is expressed in the texts. In Dickinson’s poem she talks about death throughout her poem. In Tolstoy’s story it is also the main theme of the story. They contrast in the approach they take when talking…

Puritans and Their Legacy Leo Tolstoy once said “everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” The Puritans were a group of people from England who wanted to purify the Church of England from the influences of the Roman Catholic Church. To achieve their goal, the Puritans travelled to America and settled in the New England region and lived in a conservative manner in order to exemplify themselves as a “city upon a hill” (Tindall and Shi 71). The Puritans’…

“The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy tells the story of the eponymous man’s life and death. After exploring the initial reactions to Ivan’s death by his colleagues and wife, the story traces Ivan’s life from a boy in school to a dying middle-aged man. The majority of the story recounts the last several months of Ivan’s life. As the story progresses, Ivan is shown realizing that his illness will lead to death. The last portion of the story describes his physical and mental anguish as he…

his final moments, he realizes how wrong he was in what he valued and pursued. Ivan finds himself wondering what the correct way of life would have been. Tolstoy writes, “He asked himself ’What was the right thing?’ and grew still, listening. Then he felt that someone was kissing his hand… he looked at his son, and felt sorry for him” (Tolstoy 119). In this moment, Ivan experiences the first instance of sympathy…

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.- Martin Luther King Jr.This quote means that you should always try to reach your goals even if you don’t know the outcome.Martin always did different actions without knowing what was going to happen next. Martin was an important figure in American History because he was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights movement.In 1968,Martin was giving a speech in Memphis, Tennessee, called "I’ve been to…

The works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky can be described as exercises in “soul-searching.” Both have a habit of exhibiting sympathy for their characters, providing little vignettes of life and lifelike figures and displaying the inner beauty and humanity in them. They advocate love for and brotherhood with one’s fellow man. This is a distinct contrast to the attitudes of many other Russians during the period in which the authors wrote, specifically the “logical” intelligentsia, many of…

book is assigned a genre once written, giving it a general topic description. The books specifically noted throughout Malala’s childhood included “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking, “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, and the classic novel “The Wizard of Oz” by Jane Austen. These novels, read by Malala include a variety of genres including, popular science, adventure, realism, and fantasy fiction. Through reading such a variety of books, Malala has prepared…

shoes. People only have the front row view of their own life, so it is not hard to believe that people care more about themselves and their situations than that of other people. In “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace and The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy, both address awareness and the importance of it. Although human beings are self-serving creatures, they need to have the ability to pay attention to and help one another. In today’s society, being aware and acknowledging people and…

empowering women to embrace themselves despite what society has encouraged. In his book What is Art?, Leo Tolstoy explains how art should have an effect on others. “The activity of art is based on the fact that man receiving through his sense of hearing and sight another man 's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it.”(Tolstoy 1) In this Tolstoy is saying that the artist through his art must be able to invoke the same emotion in the…

I have played viola in the orchestra since the sixth grade. For nearly seven years of my life, I have been performing in countless concerts and events, and I fell in love with sharing my music with other people from the very beginning. Leo Tolstoy, a Russian novelist, once stated that “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Through music, I can express my emotions in ways that words could never. Human emotion is powerful. It can dictate our actions, our mood, and allows people to form interpersonal…