Ivan Ilyich's Death

"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", Ivan's past life has not prepared him to face his death because he still struggles to face the reality of his pending death. Ivan tends to feel sorry for himself and continuously blames those around him and the doctors for not being able to cure his illness. He has felt nothing but emptiness in his past but blames everyone around him for not being there for him and those who actually attempt to help him he pushes away and treats them very rude like. "And to save himself from this condition Ivan Ilyich looked for consolations — new screens — and new screens were found and for a while seemed to save him,

In "The Death of Ivan Llyich" Ivan has not yet come to terms with his death and fears it. "Ivan Ilyich saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair", Ivan spends all his time feeling sorry about himself because he is going to die due to his illness instead of choosing to enjoy his final moments of life and be grateful for the life that he got to live. In Donne's poem he explains being at ease with death and has come to terms with it and isn't choosing to sit and mourner about dying but instead coming to a realization that it's bound to happen to everyone so just live life. Donne explains how death relieves our souls and deliveries those from pain. Ivan looks at death as it being mighty and dreadful and allows that to conquer him; but Donne looks at death as a natural thing in life that isn't so mighty and dreadful but yet something that relieves us from pain and is our time to rest. In “The Death of Ivan Llyich”, the middle-class people tend to have more of a struggle of accepting natural things of life instead of the peasants who expect it to come and are more at ease with the thought of death rather than others. Like Griesheim treats his master Ivan with kindness because the condition he was but the middle-class people like Praskovya Fedorovna Golovina hides her emotions and shows no pity for Ivan. It seems like the Russians in the upper-classes tend to hide their emotions and mask

When Ivan comes to a realization point when reading about Caius, he tries to convince himself that it cannot be that he is dying. Ivan felt ashamed to reveal any emotions to those around him. Griesheim treated Ivan fairly because he was more at ease with the thought of death and he would hope that someone was to treat him the same when his time came. Everyone else around Ivan realized that he was dying; Ivan tried to convince himself that he was okay and would try and do normal things to fool himself about his death. Ivan had wished as a child that he actually had someone that care for him or pitied him, but was ashamed to show such emotions to anyone else. Ivan was always focused on the external things to base his worth off of but never appreciated the things he had at