Wednesday, November 5, 2008

My quote is the same as Marina's: "This wound in the side was fatal and he felt that he was dying. Memories and pictures succeeded one another with extraordinary rapidity in his imagination [...] All these images passed through his mind without evoking any feelings within him--neither pity nor anger nor desire: everything seemed so insignificant in comparison with what was beginning, or had already begun, within him" (666-667).
This is significant,considering the portrayal of death in this book as a whole. Specifically, one man's death was referred to as 'the most important part of a man's life'. This implies an important attached to one's last thoughts. In this, hadji Murad's last thoughts were of images of his life. However, he calmly accepts them, and thus accepts his life. Moreover, it presents the idea that death is not a bad thing, and there is something far more important that begins at death.

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