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A 4 page paper which examines the expression of immortality in Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and immortality. In Dostoevskys The Grand Inquisitor and Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Ilych the authors present examinations of varying realities. The following paper examines immortality in Dostoevskys The Grand
Inquisitor and Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Ilych. Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy The reality of immortality is ultimately nonexistent. People do not live forever, although their souls may
live on forever if one believes in Christianity. In the works being examined the authors address the spiritual and physical realm of immortality in different ways. They question immortality and
the existence of meaning in life or religion. In the opinion of one author "Dostoevsky...argues for immortality on the grounds that the human ideal is unrealizable in this life"
(Jones 131-132). In his work The Grand Inquisitor he notes, in reference to the parable and the man in the parable just presented, "he sees that he must...accept lying and
deception, and lead men consciously to death and destruction, and yet deceive them all the way so that they may not notice where they are being led, that the poor
blind creatures may at least on the way think themselves happy" (Dostoevsky). The quote from the short story and the quote from the author seem to both clearly illustrate the
point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselves otherwise in an attempt to feel happy
and feel that life has some meaning. From another perspective one author looks at the work of Dostoevskys work and, partially quoting him, states, "Because of his inability to
penetrate the substance of things, man will never know truth except partially and dimly, as a subjectivized approximation of the objects essence" (Hanak). This seems to clearly allude to a
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