{"id":2261,"date":"2013-10-29T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2015-01-14T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:44:55","slug":"one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/10\/29\/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich <\/em>describes the working and living conditions of a Russian labor camp by examining the lives of its prisoners.\u00a0 All of these men ended up in the camp by being deemed enemies of the state, and the purpose of the camp is to reteach them how to be productive members of the Communist party.\u00a0 However, some of the values that are prominent in the camp ironically go against those of Communism.\u00a0 The prisoners are viewed as below so-called “comrades” in the outside world to the point that they are dehumanized.\u00a0 There is also a distinct hierarchical structure within the camp, which is emphasized when Solzhenitsyn describes how Shukhov refuses to take certain jobs because “there were others lower than him” (15).\u00a0 The niceties that are enjoyed by the prison staff come at the expense of the labor of the convicts, who are not allowed to use the facilities which they have built (38). \u00a0 Bribery through gifts of extra rations is also a common method of getting out of having to undertaking work projects with poorer conditions.\u00a0 Overall, the idea of all citizens being equal is not enforced within the camp, and the only value it shares with the idealistic view of Communism is the importance of hard work.\u00a0 Does the hypocrisy of the camp accurately portray the hypocrisy of the Soviet government at the time in which the novella takes place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich describes the working and living conditions of a Russian labor camp by examining the lives of its prisoners.\u00a0 All of these men ended up in the camp by being … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110564],"tags":[85643,22806,85665,22768],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist234-archive","tag-alexander-solzhenitsyn","tag-communism","tag-one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}