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The theme which is portrayed in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is, the theme of materialism and leading a shallow life.
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The main theme of the novel ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ East most certainly death. The story revolves around the character Ivan llyich who confronts with his own death and how that changes everything. However, apart from the central theme of the death, the passage provided depicts the theme of shallow life and materialism.
From the excerpt we can see that how people are living their life, all they want is just to look rich and to impress people with their materialistic things. The excerpt depicts the things that are found in the house of a person who is wealthy.
The scene with the gravediggers illustrates the play’s broader theme of mortality. In the first part of the scene, two gravediggers discuss the burial of people who have taken their own lives and how the Christian system is flawed in disallowing suicide. Hamlet and Horatio then look at the remains of the many dead bodies and reflect on the certainty of death for all people. In death, we are all the same. For example, a woman may go to great ends to beautify herself in life, but her remains after death may look like any ordinary person’s remains. Hamlet and Horatio also discuss how a person's greatness ceases to matter when he or she dies. Hamlet refers to Alexander the Great being buried and becoming one with the sand.
Yorick’s skull acts as a symbol of death. With the skull in his hand, Hamlet reminisces about the time he spent with Yorick. Now, in death, Yorick is nothing more than a pile of bones, with no wit, humor, or intelligence. Earlier in the play, Hamlet spent much time mulling over death and wondering what came after death. Yorick’s skull answers that question for Hamlet.
The skull and the graveyard directly contrast with the life Hamlet led in the castle. In Elsinore, Hamlet’s mother and Claudius tried to make him forget about his father's death. In the graveyard, he has the freedom to contemplate death.
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