Select the correct text in the passage. which excerpt from the death of ivan ilych can be used as textual evidence to support (2023)

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What was the lie Ivan Ilych suffered from? ›

Ivan Ilyich suffered most of all from the lie, the lie which, for some reason, everyone accepted: that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that if he stayed calm and underwent treatment he could expect good results.

An acceptance of death, however, and recognition of the true unpredictable nature of life allows for confidence, peace, and even joy at the moment of death. More than anything else, then, the novel can be seen as a lesson on making sense of death through living rightly.

“In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it.” Ilyich attempts desperately to ignore death: “The pain did not grow less, but Ivan Ilyich made efforts to force himself to think he was better.” Towards the end of this process, ...

The theme which is portrayed in the above excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is: keeping up appearances in society. The correct option is C. Tolstoy gives his remark on the materialistic nature of people in the society.

“It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.”

The main character Ivan experiences self-deception in his life, and his self-deception give raise to his hypocritical behavior. He pretends that he is fine, hides his real condition even though in the depth of his heart he knows that his illness is getting worse and will lead him to the death.

Based on a true story, but told in Ivan's own voice using simple language and short chapters, this is a story about friendship, compassion for animals, the promises we make, and the things we will do to help someone in need.

At the end of his life, Ivan can finally accept the reality of his relationship to his family. In his illness, he has been wounded by their selfishness. However, he has also wounded them with his own selfishness.

No one wants to confront the fact of Ivan's imminent death. Ivan becomes silently enraged, and seeing his little son Vasya, Ivan realizes that Vasya is the only one besides Gerasim who understands him. That night Ivan dreams of a deep black sack. He is being violently pushed into the sack, but cannot fall through.

Ivan is blinded by the light.

It's the final moment of realization, and the one that brings everything to a conclusion. Ivan now sees that his life was wrong. For the first time he feels compassion for his family, and recognizes that by dying he can at last do them a service.

What did Ivan Ilych realize? ›

At his moment of illumination, Ivan realizes that he has actually been traveling opposite his intended direction. Moving up in social esteem has not led to joy, fulfillment, and life, but to misery, emptiness, and death.

Ivan Ilych, prominent official of the Court of Justice and 19^th century Russian socialite, passes through the process of his death in a confused mix of the classic stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

The pain and suffering that Ivan experiences while passing through the bag into the light refer to the trauma of birth into new life. The duality of the symbol holds a key to the story. In Ivan's life, what appears like physical death is actually spiritual rebirth, while his old life was the cause of spiritual death.

In many ways, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a story about failures of empathy. As Ivan's health deteriorates, his family members come to see him as a burden, viewing his illness as an impediment to their everyday happiness.

Why does Tolstoy choose to place Ivan's funeral in the first chapter? By placing Ivan's funeral in the first chapter, Tolstoy provides an intimate view of the social milieu Ivan occupied, thereby rendering it susceptible to evaluation and critique.

Tag was Ivan's twin sister. She died in the crate on the way to the United States, after poachers killed Ivan's mother and father. Tag got her name because, as an infant, she loved playing tag with Ivan. Ivan explains that she died because she couldn't let go of her old life in the jungle.

After Stella's death, Ivan begins to remember his life before the Big Top Mall and what it was like to have freedom if only to have stories to tell to Ruby.

Ivan became a beloved celebrity at Zoo Atlanta, where he lived contentedly with other gorillas, although he never sired any offspring. He was known for his paintings, which were often "signed" with his thumbprint. Ivan died on August 20, 2012 at the age of 50.

Death. Ivan died from a stroke while he was playing chess with Bogdan Belsky on 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584. Upon Ivan's death, the Russian throne was left to his middle son, Feodor, a weak-minded figure.

While the film gives its star a happy ending, the actual Ivan struggled to acclimate to his fellow gorillas at a zoo. Despite his prestigious silver fur, he was mocked or, at best, ignored, by females while caretakers gossiped about how rarely he got to mate.

Does Ivan end up with anyone? ›

No, Ivan and Patrick do not end up together. The essential mystery of the sixth season is whether or not Ivan dies since we learn in the first episode that he has been hit with a car by an unknown driver who subsequently fled the scene.

Ivan realizes for the first time that his illness is not a question of health or sickness, but of life or death.

Ivan's wife and daughter are annoyed at his depression and intolerance. Praskovya adopts a formal attitude to Ivan's illness. It consists of the beliefs that Ivan's condition is his own fault and that if he strictly follows doctor's orders he will improve.

Ivan's life is terrible because it is a life devoid of true freedom, of true individuality. Ivan does not use his own reason to direct his moral life. Rather, he imbibes his beliefs from aristocrats.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Morality by Wallace Shawn both have a persistent issue of human morality. Ivan reflects upon his outlook on his life and how he treated others and ponders whether his death is justified.

Realizing that the only truth in his life was when he attempted to struggle against the expectations and values of high society, Ivan realizes that his life "was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death." Seeing the footman, his wife, his daughter, and all the other people ...

Ivan reveals that he grew up with his parents and his twin sister, Tag. His parents called him “Mud” because he loved to paint with mud. Life was idyllic until humans killed Ivan's mother and father and captured Ivan and Tag. Tag died, but Mack adopted Ivan and raised him in his home until Ivan became too big.

The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – are often talked about as if they happen in order, moving from one stage to the other.

The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

Their four stages include shock-numbness, yearning-searching, disorganization-despair, and reorganization. Bowlby applied his work focusing on attachment and relationships to this theory. When a loss occurs, he suggested that grief is a normal adaptive response based on one's environment and psychological make-up.

What is the climax of death of Ivan Ilych? ›

climaxThe major climax of the novel occurs in chapter XII when Ivan Ilych is suddenly struck in the chest and side and pushed through the black sack into the light. Ivan finally discovers the right way to live and realizes the error of his past life.

Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich is considered a classic for its brilliant structure. By opening with a protagonist who is already dead, Tolstoy gives himself a difficult technical challenge. By putting the “end” at the beginning, Tolstoy removes the possibility for normal suspense.

Focusing only on how the place looks, he tries to show a worker how to properly hang the drapes in the way that he thinks looks best, and as he does so, slips off a ladder and bangs his side against a knob on the window. This leaves a painful bruise that continues to hurt for a long time.

Ivan is still suffering, and he has not yet learned how to suffer. He still tries to distract himself from suffering and becomes angry when he cannot avoid his misery. His lifelong habits of avoidance can no longer help him because his pain is too intense. Even worse than his pain is his fear.

The pain causes Ilyich to question how he has lived his life (or not lived it) in the face of his impending death, which adds to his suffering. This can be interpreted as a description of 'total pain'.

point of viewThe novel is from the point of view of the omniscient narrator, although action occasionally progresses from Ivan's point of view. falling actionInsofar as Ivan experiences his climactic epiphany in a single moment before his death, the novel contains no falling action.

It gives the story momentum, and propels the reader toward the inevitable conclusion of Ivan's life.

He realizes that his official life and his family and social relations were all artificial. And he experiences a sense of extreme joy. In the middle of a sigh, Ivan stretches out and dies.

In the end, Ivan Ilych came to a resolution and acceptance, but it was a difficult, distressing, and lonely journey. While death is unquestionably a lonely journey, it is a journey that today's practitioners can better support through enlightened intervention by an effective multidisciplinary approach.

At Peter Carson's funeral, the very last lines of Ivan Ilyich were read out. “It is finished!” someone said above him.