Lev Shestov's 'Creation From The Void' By Lev Chekhov

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.

Viktor E. Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who also had survived the Holocaust, writes “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves” (BrainyQuote). Frankl survived genocide against his own people and still chose to have a positive outlook on it because he understands that if he did not, he would continually live an unhappy, upset life. Like Frankl, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, the main character in One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, contains a similar outlook to that of Frankl. The novel takes place during Soviet Russia in a gulag in Siberia, or otherwise known as a labor work camp. The whole book is about only one day that Shukhov lives; from 5 in the morning to 10 at night and all that happens in between. In this labor camp, not only are the weather conditions very cold, making it difficult to work in such circumstances, but also the workers are punished and harshly treated if they do not obey the guards. When placed in this environment, it is easy to be discouraged and miserable, but instead of facing the negatives of his situation, Shukhov remains affirmative in his thoughts – which are most important in order to survive not only physically, but also mentally. This stoicism portrayed in the narrative can also be found in Epictetus’s work, The Handbook. In this text, Epictetus discusses how he believes people can live a happy life, despite the hard conditions they are put through

The stories of Anton Chekhov mark a focal moment in European fiction. This is the point where 19th realist caucus of the short stories started their transformation into modern form. As such, his work straddles two traditions. The first is that of the anti-romantic realism which has a sharp observation of external social detail. It has human behavior conveyed within tight plot. The second is the modern psychological realism in which the action in typically internal and expressed in associative narrative that is built on epiphanic moments. In consideration of the two sides, Chekhov developed powerful personal styles that presage modernism without losing traditional frills of the form. This essay will discuss the Chekhov's portrayal of women.

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.

consequences, like a wound, are usually self-inflicted. In the short stories “The Bet” by Anton Chekov and “Hey Come on Out” by Shinichi Hoshi, both authors authenticate the theme of consequences. Clear as day the theme appears to be consequences.

A constant state of distress and hardship may be present in a person’s life, whether it be because of poverty, sickness, or guilt, and it is collectively known as suffering. This topic of suffering comes up often in the book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He presents an array of characters suffering for a majority of their life for various reasons. He also demonstrates a fear of death in some characters’ minds, but when death and suffering come together, that fear is blocked out. Dostoyevsky portrays the theme that when people are suffering, they have no reason to fear death.

Leo Tolstoy wrote: The Death of Ivan Ilyich in 1886 to express his own view of how life should be lived and what truly matters most. According to Tolstoy, there are two ways of living life; first: by outer appearances a propriety; a decorum; and a standard of conduct. The second way is living by inner appearances and spiritual life in which he claims is “the real thing” that makes one’s life meaningful.

The main confict in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich are Ivan's struggle between the carnal and spiritual. Tolstoy's own midlife crisis and search for the meaning of life are reflected in the story, as well as his religious transformation. "Religion doesn't come up often in The Death of Ivan Ilych, but it's always in the background. Tolstoy wrote the story after his own conversion (to a more radical form of Christianity) convinced him that only a religious outlook could provide meaning to life.

In “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the grim nature of Soviet work camps is depicted in a realistic and relatable way. Throughout the story, the reader must constantly remind themselves of the timeframe these events occur in. Despite the constant dangers and distress that Ivan and his work group, 104, deal with throughout the story, this all occurs within one day. Whether it’s prison mates getting their throats slit, or Ivan smuggling in metal to create protection for himself, they all struggle to survive in this cold unforgiving gulag.

World War 2 not only had terrible battles where many people were killed, but had many other acts of brutalization. People who were deemed to be outsiders were brutalized for political beliefs, race, religion and many other reasons. Most of these reasons seem illogical and a lot of people wonder how someone can be brutalized because they look different or think differently. The most famous example where outsiders were brutalized is the Holocaust in Germany, but there are many other examples. Outsiders were even brutalized before in the United States. There are many different accounts of brutalization throughout World War 2 and after World War 2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is one piece of literature that portrays what life in the Gulag system was life through the eyes of Ivan Denisovich. The film Stalingrad shows the brutalization of the Russian soldiers by the German soldiers. The play In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Heiner Kipphardt shows the brutalization of people with communist views or pasts. All three of these works portray how groups that are brutalized are viewed as outsiders. These works are important because they document what happened to these “outsider” and how they were brutalized.

“How should life be lived?” This is a question that people repeatedly ask themselves during their life. Outside influences, such as the media, celebrities, and peer pressure force people to search for the answer to this question. As a result, many books have been written about how life should be lived, one of these being The Death of Ivan Ilych. In this novella, Leo Tolstoy tells the reader how to live a good life by describing the life and death of someone who lived “the simplest, the most ordinary, and the most awful” kind of life (95). Tolstoy achieves his purpose by using different figures of speech; specifically, he uses irony to demonstrate how Ivan, the main character, lived a bad life, personification to show why he lived a bad life, and rhetorical questions to explain how life should be lived.

But it is also this spiritual deterritorialization that follows Nabokov throughout his life that makes his account of his life seem more artistic and disconnected, even if there is a profound emotional impact on the reader in the end. While some moments in his life might evoke sympathy, like his retelling of his father’s death, or make readers to take a side, such as the incident with Nesbit during his time in Cambridge, Nabokov keeps the reader at a distance by concealing his feelings in rhetoric. An example of this is the “short biography” (173) of his father. Using vivid details to describe his father, one can feel the spiritual resonance the experience had on Nabokov. “And behind it all there was yet a very special emotional abyss that I was

To make a good story it should start with an essential list of components. The opening situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and then conclusion. Good authors and writers sometimes mix up these "ingredients" and add some spice. This is very much the case in The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, he shows how the majority of society is selfish. Tolstoy suggests how even though there is so much selfishness in society, there are some exceptional people who do not follow social conventions and are the prime example of how people in a society should be. This paper will argue that being selfless is important in society and that people should deviate from individualistic behavior and concentrate more on the collective behavior. Through this careful examination it will be revealed that although a person should think about how to advance themselves in the social hierarchy, it cannot be their only goal and people need to combine it with it a more humanistic goal as well.

“Master and Man” by Leo Tolstoy is a story that explores the dynamics between a peasant, Nakita and his master,Vasillii Andriech. Andriech foolishly risks both of their lives, when they venture to another town in inclement weather to secure a business deal. Unfortunately, Andreich's impatience and greed ultimately leads to his demise. At the end of the story Nikita dies and is denied the same bliss that Vasillii Andreich experiences in death; in order to solidify the dichotomy between these two men, demonstrate how Andriech cheated Nakita, and he uses Nakita's lackluster death to amplify Andriech's extraordinary passing.