I would say that the theme that Leo Tolstoy explores in this excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyich is that C) human mortality is inevitable, and it is important to live an authentic life.
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1. To not only reach his audience that gathered before him but to the people around the world.
2. He sought both to inspire the nation and to send a message aboard signaling the challenges of the Cold War and his hope for peace on the nuclear age.
3. He also wanted to be brief.
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Yea this answer to this is 67