IVAN ILYCH
BEGINNING- Young
MIDDLE –Marriage/ Adulthood
END- Sickness
BEGINNING
QUESTION 1
HOW DID HIS FAMILY
SEE HIM AS A PERSON?
QUESTION 1 ANSWER
HIS FAMILY SAW HIM AS THE PRIDE OF THE
FAMILY:
"Ivan Lynch was le phenix de famille as people said.
He was neither as cold and formal as his elder
brother, nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy
mean between them -- an intelligent polished, lively
and agreeable man."
PAGE 1271
QUESTION 2
FILL IN THE BLANKS OF THE QUOTE
“Exceedingly ______, punctilious, and even severe;
but in society he was often amusing and witty, and
always ________, correct in his manner, and bon
enfant”
QUESTION 2 ANSWER
“Exceedingly RESERVED, punctilious, and even
severe; but in society he was often amusing and
witty, and always GOOD NATURED, correct in his
manner, and bon enfant”
PAGE 1272
QUESTION 3
TREASURE HUNT!! FIND AND DEFINE THIS
QUOTE!
(ITS SOMEWHERE IN CHAPTER II)
“Aware of his Power: "Ivan Ilych never abused his
power; he tried on the contrary to soften its
expression."
QUESTION 3 ANSWER:
“Aware of his Power: "Ivan Ilych never abused his
power; he tried on the contrary to soften its expression."
PAGE 1273
HE CHANGES BECAUSE REALIZES HE IS IMPORTANT
AND BELIEVED EVERYONE WAS IN HIS POWER
HE DOES NOT LIKE TO ABUSE HIS POWER YET. HE
USES FOR RESPONSIBLE REASONS ONLY.
MIDDLE!
QUESTION 4
WHY DID HE GET MARRIED?
QUESTION 4 ANSWER
HE GOT MARRIED BECAUSE:• ITS CONVIENENT• ITS EXPECTED• SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM• SHE HAD PROPERTY
“Came of a good family, was not bad looking, and
had some little property.” PAGE 1274
QUESTION 5
EXPLAIN THESE QUOTES
“Ivan Ilych transferred the center of gravity of his life more
and more to his official work so did he grow to like his work
better and became more ambitious than before.” PAGE 1275
"...by means of his official work and the duties attached to
it he began struggling with his wife to secure his own
independence." (also read the sentence starting with "he now
realized that matrimony—” page 1275
QUESTION 5 ANSWER
HE BECAME MORE FOCUSED ON HIS WORK,
AND LESS ON HIS MARRIAGE. WORK BECAME
HIS ESCAPE.
HE STRUGGLED WITH KEEPING HIS OWN
INDEPENDENCE
QUESTION 6
GO TO PAGE 1276, AND GIVE US A QUOTE
ABOUT HOW HE CHANGED THROUGH HIS
CAREER.
QUESTION 6 ANSWER
HE BECOMES IRRITANT “Ivan Ilych became irritable,
reproached Happe and quarreled both with him and with his
immediate superiors..” PAGE 1276
BECOMES DEPRESSED “…he experienced ennui for the first
time in his life, and not only ennui but intolerable depression…”
PAGE 1276
BECOMES VENGEFUL “He decided to go to Petersburg and
bestir himself, in order to punish those who had failed to
appreciate him.” PAGE 1276
END
QUESTION 7
HOW IS HE IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS
ILLNESS?• A- HAPPY• B- IRRITABLE• C- SAD
QUESTION 7 ANSWER
B IRRITABLE!
“With characteristic exaggeration she said he had
always had a dreadful temper, and that it had needed
all her good nature to put up with it for twenty
years.” PAGE 1281
QUESTION 8
AS HE WAS DYING
WHAT DID HE
REALIZE?
QUESTION 8 ANSWER
“and in imagination he began to recall the best
moments of his pleasant life.But strange to say none
of those best moments of his pleasant life now
seemed at all hat what they had seemed-none of
them execpt the first recollections of childhood…all
that seemed joys now melted before his sight and
turned into something trivial and often nasty” page
1299