Discuss The Causes Of Ivan In English

Ivan’s illness causes him to become irritable, which causes him to lose his temper. He is also, now the aggressor because he is the one that begins the arguments. “It was true that now the quarrels were started by him. His bursts of temper always came just before dinner, often just as he began to eat his soup. Sometimes he noticed that a plate or dish was chipped, or the food was not right, or his son put his elbow on the table, or his daughter's hair was not done as he liked it, and for all this he blamed Praskovya Fedorovna. At first she retorted and said disagreeable things to him, but once or twice he fell into such a rage at the beginning of dinner that she realized it was due to some physical derangement brought on by taking food, and so she restrained herself and did not answer, but only hurried to get the dinner over” (IV, 4-7).
The illness causes his pain to increase and be more persistent.
His illness also causes him torment because he loses strength and his appetite. The fact that people around him were not understanding his illness and what he is going thru causes him the worst kind of torment, of all. He feels as if they are going thru everyday life as if nothing is wrong. “The pain in his side oppressed him and seemed to grow worse and more incessant, while the taste in his mouth grew stranger and stranger. It seemed to him that his breath had a disgusting smell, and he was conscious of a loss of appetite and strength. There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware. Those about him did not understand or would not understand it, but thought everything in the world was going on as usual. That tormented Ivan Ilych more than anything (IV,
49-51).
He once could solve his problems thru reasoning or by using his job as a distraction. These methods provide relieve for him because he was able to get away from the discomforts and unpleasant things in life. He’s in a tremendous amount of pain and he does not have the power any longer to shield himself from what is happening to him. He cannot overlook his problem nor can he use his job to distract him from his problem. Ivan has to face his problem head on and it seems like there is nothing he can do but suffer. “And his colleagues and subordinates would see with surprise and distress that he, the brilliant and subtle judge, was becoming confused and making mistakes. He would shake himself, try to pull himself together, manage somehow to bring the sitting to a close, and return home with the sorrowful consciousness that his judicial labours could not as formerly hide from him what he wanted them to hide, and could not deliver him from It. And what was worst of all was that It drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some action but only that he should look at It, look it straight in the face: look at it and without doing anything, suffer inexpressibly” (VI, 16-18).