Among the sentences in the excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, I think the statement that shows that Ivan Ilyich has realized the hypocrisy of his earlier life is: "Ivan Ilyich knows quite well and definitely that all this is nonsense and pure deception, but when the doctor, getting down on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a significant expression on his face, Ivan Ilyich submits to it all as he used to submit to the speeches of the lawyers, though he knew very well that they were all lying and why they were lying." This is because in his earlier life before he was terminally ill, he too also submitted to the lawyers in order to work his way up on the social ladder.
The narrator felt scared- surprised, in a bad way. This makes the readers interested, more interested how it ends, since you've got a good start.
Answer: Economic demand for sugar was the most important factor in ending servitude and serfdom worldwide.
Both passages highlight the importance of the economic demand for sugar in ending servitude and serfdom worldwide.
The first passage states that "the global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery." In this quote, the author makes a link between sugar and slavery to the Age of Revolutions.
In the second passage, the author argues that Russia at the "Age of Sugar" was still an old-fashioned country, where most people were serfs. However, with the adoption of sugar beets and new tools, society modernized and serfdom ended. He argues that "beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs."
Therefore, both passages support the idea that economic demand for sugar was the most important factor in ending servitude worldwide.
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