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Death Of Ivan Ilych" And Essay

Both characters found ways to avoid living through isolation. They alienated themselves from practically everyone and this resulted in severe pain. The message here is to think about the things that consume us and then consider how important those things will be at the end of our lives or when our lives become difficult. The Death of Ivan Ilych" and "Ward No. 6" are compelling stories that force us to think of life and death through the most painful experience of others. The search for the meaning of life becomes significant with these men who have lived rather aloof lives until they are stricken with a confounding truth. Ivan must face the truth that his life was not lived the best way that it could have been. Andrey must come to terms that he has been living has been terribly misguided. Both men realize that to some extent, their lives were not real. This fact is conveyed to us through immense suffering...

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Tolstoy and Chekhov used these painful circumstances to bring us closer to the truth of life. We often see truth through a clearer lens when we are looking at it through someone else's circumstances. Death is a powerful factor and this is why it becomes a critical concept in each story. These men are similar in that they essentially wasted their lives and did not realize until they were grown men. One death moves rather slowly, allowing the character to grieve his own losses. The other death is sudden but the essence of suffering is what prompted it. Ivan and Andrey suffered and their suffering resulted in death after a life that was not well spent.
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Chekhov, Anton. Ward No. 6." Read Print Online Library. Information Retrieved February 27, 2009. http://www.readprint.com/work-356/Anton-Chekhov

Tolstoy, Leo. "The Death of Ivan Ilych." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction R.V. Cassill, ed. New York W.W. Norton…

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Chekhov, Anton. Ward No. 6." Read Print Online Library. Information Retrieved February 27, 2009. http://www.readprint.com/work-356/Anton-Chekhov

Tolstoy, Leo. "The Death of Ivan Ilych." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction R.V. Cassill, ed. New York W.W. Norton and Company. 1981.
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