Leo Tolstoy's 'Colonel Sarty Snopes'

During the French Revolution the two social classes, nobles and the peasants, clashed with each other because the peasants felt treated unfairly by the nobles. Dickens tells a story of both sides of the Revolution and emphasizes the fact that both sides endured hardships. Charles Dickens in his novel A Tale of Two Cities gets readers to sympathize with both sides of the revolution through character foils, flashbacks, and the theme of suffering by portraying both sides as victims.

Tolstoy talks about a sort of scholarly emergency that he endured late in his life, and his recuperation from it. In spite of the fact that Tolstoy appreciated what might conventionally be viewed as a successful and agreeable life, he started feeling tormented by worries of unimportance. Specifically, he reports starting to question why he should think about things that he once thought about, or why he should do the things that he would choose to do. At last, he discovered it inconceivably hard to give answers to these inquiries. The outcome, he reports, is feeling as though his life were a doltish, pointless trap played someone has bestowed upon him. He felt as though every individual task he attempted, and also his life in its totality, were without importance.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson indicates that every generation needs a group of motivated people hoping to fix the broken pieces in soceity. E.L Doctorow uses Thomas Jefferson’s imperative thought as an occurring theme in the novel Ragtime. E.L Doctorow does so by using three distinct revolutionaries, each with different qualities; the youngster, Mother’s Younger Brother, the significant anarchist, Emma Goldman, and the infamous menace to society, Coalhouse Walker. Although the revolutionaries of Ragtime, Mother’s Younger Brother, Coalhouse, and Emma Goldman are ultimately killed or deported, they benefit America because they fight for the ideals that America claims to hold.

Faulkner grew up in Oxford, Mississippi where he remained except for brief trips to New Orleans, some youthful wanderings, and a few years in the Royal Air Force. After a promising start as a student, Faulkner began to lose interest and to do poorly in school when he entered his teens. It was at this time that he began to write poetry and short stories. In high school, he was more interested in sports and extracurricular activities than in his studies. The pattern of his writing’s was based upon what he saw in Oxford or remembered from his childhood; or scraps of family tradition, or in stories told by men in overalls, squatting on their heels while they passed around a fruit jar of corn liquor. All of his stories can be linked together to tell one big story of how he saw his family life, and how time has changed the South. The characters in most of his stories reflect upon real life people whom he shared his love for as a child and as an adult.

When one is encountered with death, life’s meaning is revealed. We infrequently agonize over whether we live a healthy lifestyle until it is too late, as demonstrated in "The Death of Ivan Ilych” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Both stories allow the readers to learn the consequences of living a completely selfish, non-Christian life. Through death, characters Ivan and the grandmother are encountered with conversion experiences, in which they reevaluate their own lives. O’Conner and Tolstoy exhibited the character’s reevaluation experience through similar themes in each story.

Tolstoy uses characters to show varying degrees of manipulation. Today’s society also displays many instances of manipulation, primarily in entertainment.

But are there really winners in a war? ‘Cruelty is the father of cruelty’ says Dark (1999) and ‘hate breeds hate’ says Martin Luther King. Dickens in his novel, though he condemns the attitude of the nobles towards the peasant he also does not fully endorsed the revolution employed by the latter. ‘Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind’ (Book 3, Chapter 15). The message is that fighting oppression with oppression is not revolution as it will only contribute to the never ending vicious circle of revenge while ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ as per can only be achieved through resurrection and renewal (E-notes,

Tolstoy’s emphasizes deeply with the Chechen people as he details their suffering at the hands of the

The Death of Ivan Ilyich was a short, but is one of the greates of fiction. Ivan was a successful member of the state bureaucracy. Through out his life he had to do arrange it without complication. He is the perfect example of conforming, such as ‘’other-directed’’ man because he discovers the lies behind his successful life. The story opens with a deeplu significant way. The reader later on talks about Ivans early years. First, Tolstoy presents the death of Ivan. He told his wife and closets friends, Pete Ivanovitch. They were really worry about Ivan’s life than any other could be. They also worry about their own affairs. They pretend that feelings of ehat they do not feel. Ivans life could be concern for him after

The first immediate thought that comes to mind when pondering the French Revolution appertains to the excessive amount of gruesome acts that were executed by the frenetic peasants. Charles Dickens, the author of A Tale of Two Cities, captured the ferocity and horror of the French Revolution by showcasing the inhumanity that took place, and this theme of inhumanity is developed throughout the course of the book. The theme is shown through multiple characters, and even though repentance is an opportunity for all, only a few courageously take it. When a character’s inhumanity is brought to light, their true qualities are revealed. While many people convey inhumanity with different rationales, three main characters, Jerry Cruncher, Monsieur the

Living with nonconformity makes you unaware of the valuable things that you have in life. In the novella “The Death Of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy demonstrates a good example of how important is to be grateful for what you have and the ones close to you. However , life gets in charge of teaching him a very tough lesson. In an instant Ivan’s life changed and also his way of thinking and seeing things. Gladly Ivan Ilyich learned his lesson and it wasn’t too late for him to fix things.

Leo Tolstoy was an author, anarchist, critic, pioneer, visionary, and a world changer. He wrote many great novels and various other literary works in his time, but that only scratches the surface of how and what he did to change the world. Leo Tolstoy changed the world by starting schools which allowed peasants to get an education, influencing leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and changed the world through his writings.

Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a modern lawman whose sudden mortality forces him to evaluate the worth of his life and the life choices he has. Throughout the novella, Tolstoy reveals social norms and practices blindly followed by those in the upper-middle class. These norms bring to light modernity’s core values, which Tolstoy critiques through the actions Ivan Ilyich takes before his death, Ivan Ilyich’s revelation as he lies on his death bed, and the way Ivan Ilyich’s family, friends, and colleagues react to his illness and eventual death. In fact, The Death of Ivan Ilyich provides a critique on modernity as a whole; Tolstoy condemns the shallow, superficial lives the higher-ups in society lead, spurred on by the idea of modernity.

In his novel, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo identifies the principle social evils of French society through the actions and qualities of his characters. By depicting each of his characters’ struggles through destitute and oppressed measures, Hugo is able to identify the social errors of 19th century France. The fact that characters such as Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and Cosette, attempt to rise above poverty and redeem themselves indicate that such inequalities did, and still do, exist to this day. Through the use of feminist ideals and the criminal injustice system, Hugo attacks the principle social evils that each of his characters face in Les Miserables.