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This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...
In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...
In 4 pages this paper examines how life's meaning is conveyed through physical and spiritual changes in a contrasting of these two...
quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...
victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...
Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...
into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...
is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...
In five pages this paper examines how the characters of Emma Bovary and Ivan Ilych struggle to give their lives in decline meaning...
then the damage to his children had been done. And, perhaps the only hope for them was to arrive at the sense of enlightenment tha...
The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...
death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...
In six pages Konstantin 'Kostya' and Anna Levin as featured in Anna Karenina are contrasted and compared in terms of their moral p...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...
problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quic...
Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...
is no more deep than what lies beneath the layers of his skin -- an aspect of his personality that is readily recognized by all; i...
In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...
In two pages the implications of the social treatment Tolstoy's protagonist received are discussed. There is no bibliography incl...
Vasili Kuragin. Also through their conversation, the reader is first introduced to Prince Vasilis sons, Ippolit and Anatol. The ...
In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...
of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...
In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...
In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...
the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...
father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...
This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....
This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...