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Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselve...

Self Discovery Journeys in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo, Leo Tolstoy, and Henrik Ibsen

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Women's Roles in 6 Great Works of Literature

In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

The Concept of the Best Society

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

Life Lessons in Classic Literature

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

Death Confrontation in Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer

father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Morality, Relationships, and Motivations in Works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In five pages a comparison between these two authors and the depiction of morality, relationships, and motivations are considered ...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

Life and Writings of Leo Tolstoy

problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quic...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Interpretation of a Specific Passage

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...

Statesmanship in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Comparative Analysis of Octavio Paz and Leo Tolstoy

Octavio Pazs story, My Life with The Wave, is that a man falls in love with a wave from the ocean and brings it home to live with ...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

The Character of Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina

enjoys with any other friends and social acquaintances. Yet in virtually every social circumstance, Vronsky is there. He begins ...