WORLD LIT

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The discrepancy in appearance and reality is an important theme in several of the texts we have read . Discuss this theme as it is illustrated in two of the following works of literature : The Canterbury Tales Hamlet (the play "A Simple Heart "The Death of Ivan Ilych Incorporate some information about how each text reflects the characteristics of its literary period

Discrepancy in appearance and reality is one theme that is well illustrated in both books of Hamlet

a simple heart and even in the literature entitled The Death of Ivan Ilych . Ivan Ilyich as a person who want to be well up especially in the social ladder does all the struggle he could , only to realize he had to accept the true reality of life since death was a must and not optional . The gift of all his agony and struggle to make life more comfortable was a suffering cessation The Ilyich 's breakthrough turns out to be freedom that emerges with truth and realizes at the end that he has lived a life full of falsity and enables him to have a just very brief moment to show unselfish love to his children and wife since he had lived such a bad life of not having compassion to his deer wife and equally to his own child . Ivan Ilyich had to accept the reality in life and regret about the life he had been living and recognizes that his...