LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Foreordained Final Farewell and Depression of Ivan Ilyich

S. Mathivanan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. R. Soundararajan, M.A, M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D.

Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich

It is evident and apparent that even the worlds richest or the poorest individual can’t conjure death to have a different pattern, different from the regular occurrence. When one lies in his death bed everything turns out to be different. Every patient in his/her death bed fears the demise and thinks about a pain-free journey to eternity and some may wish to loiter around spirituality. The life of Ivan Ilyich is an ordinary one and, therefore, becomes a terrible one. “Ivan Ilyich’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” (DOII 10)

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Ivan Ilyich died at the age of forty five, which is rather known as ‘the middle age of a man’ where man’s mind is mainly occupied with his memories of youth as well as the anxiety of aging and death. Ivan Ilyich had an older and a younger brother. He was not so formal and cold like his elder brother or a mere failure like his younger brother, but was a happy mean between them. He was so much liked by everyone and in turn he also became so acquainted with everyone. “Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.” (DOII 11)

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S. Mathivanan M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
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Government Arts College
Trichy-620022
Tamilnadu
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Dr. R. Soundararajan, M.A., M. Phil., B. Ed., Ph.D.
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National College (Autonomous)
Trichy - 620001
Tamilnadu
India
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