The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
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Leo Tolstoy was a great humanist. Evolution of human character was a subject
of his close attention. The main personage of the story "The Death of Ivan
Ilyich" is ordinary official who conduct his life according to a strict social
code, never deviating from what was rule d by society, by his plea ....
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.... His moral misery was worse
than physical. The result of this was that Ivan Ilyich in dying became the
individual that he never was in his typical life. He understood that his notion
about his decent and helpfulness was just illusion. He felt as if he were
being squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. This
metaphor serves as image of physical death and spiritual rebirth. His death
gave birth to new consciousness. He suddenly perceived that man's essential
life ....
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