Write a 4 pages paper on the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy. The story completely exemplifies what Tolstoy believed literature must contain: value and purpose (Zott). There are several stages whe

Write a 4 pages paper on the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy. The story completely exemplifies what Tolstoy believed literature must contain: value and purpose (Zott). There are several stages whereupon this story can be read. nonetheless they are intertwined so inextricably into this masterwork that the density is overwhelming. Its simplicity — a dying man’s realization of the wasted life he lived — has been commonly depicted in Hollywood movies yet hardly ever portrayed and paralleled the superb skillfulness of Tolstoy in writing The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Teitelbaum). Departure from life, rousing of one’s spirituality, and salvation are the most important foundations in&nbsp.the novel. Indeed, the novel’s title may deceive the reader, like Ilyich himself, into believing that it is mainly on death, however ironically at the finale the reader, once more like Ilyich himself, comes into the realization that death is immaterial.&nbsp.While demonstrated in the story, death is the final certainty inevitably faced and acknowledged by all mortals. For Ilyich, the inescapability of his own death encourages a spiritual disaster and life abandonment. In keeping Tolstoy's viewpoint, Ilyich refuses the superficiality of his previous life and holds on to his newly-found spiritual ideals of love and acceptance. Reviewers have accentuated the emptiness of Ilyich's quest for greed and power, a life that is exposed as deceitful and lacking in spiritual profundity. Moreover,&nbsp.the novel has been argued from a psychological angle, as observers see Ilyich's estrangement from his associates and relations throughout his sickness and his propensity to pull out from human contact at his most trying moments. It is only through Gerasim, his poor servant, which he tried to make critical human contact shortly prior to his death.