The Death Of Ivan Ilych Ivan Ilych finds himself living in a world of false appearances. His whole life has been spent doing what’s right in the eyes of society. Only a few moments before his death, does Ilych finally realize that he is empty inside. His whole life had been spent attempting to achieve the wrong goals. The Death of Ivan Ilych is frightening because it is so easy to accept the characters …showed first 75 words of 426 total…

…showed last 75 words of 426 total…he had not lived as he ought to have lived, but it always returned to him. Though he’s physically alive throughout the work, he only becomes spiritually alive in his last moments. “It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.”