08-26-2021, 01:20 AM
Definitely. The characters in the ward each represent different responses to illness and mortality. For instance, there's Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov, a political exile who finds solace in the thought of scientific evolution and human advancement even with his illness. Then there's Oleg Kostoglotov, a former political prisoner who grapples with queries of faith and the meaning of life as he confronts his mortality.