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Compose a 1500 words assignment on the death of ivan ilyich by lev tolstoy. Needs to be plagiarism free! Ivan Ilyich works day and night as a magistrate just to keep his impact on his friends and juniors. He gives more attention to his office work and as a result, his normal life becomes unhappy. As depicted by Betty Bender, “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home”. Because if in the offices people start thinking about their families then they cannot work properly. Ivan Ilyich bought a new apartment for his family and wants to furnish it according to their status. One day when Ivan Ilyich hanging the curtains, he slipped and hit on the ground. At first, he neglects this and become busy in routine life but pain starts there. And with the passage of time when pain increases his conduct with his family members and office colleagues become grouchy. Now his wife persists that he has to visit a doctor. Doctors cannot judge the source of disease or it can be said that they cannot understand his disease. But after some days they said that he is now on the verge of death. Everyone has to die but now when it is clarified against someone that he/she died after three or four days then who miserable his/her situation is? As depicted by Maurice Maeterlinck, “All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing”.

Ivan Ilyich is of the view that he lived his life in a correct manner and he does not be worthy of these hardships. He thinks that if he does not spend his life in a proper way then there is a point for these hardships, but now these hardships are pointless. In his last days, he starts disliking his family members because he thinks that they feigned against him as he is not expiring and will recover in some days. He like the attitude of his servant boy, named Gerasim, who has no concern about death, he is of the view that, all that happens is good. Besides this, his own son shows sympathy for him. Ivan Ilyich likes to become like his servant, who is of the view as depicted by Mark Twain, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life.&nbsp. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time”.