In Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the main character, Ivan Ilyich, finds himself in crisis when he realizes as he is dying that he has lived his whole life for the wrong things, and that it’s too late for him to do anything to change that. His whole life he has been following what the culture around him believed was proper and fitting, but as he lies in agony on his deathbed, he realizes that these were the wrong things to prioritize. He can only try to ask forgiveness from h...
Following Culture
