Initially, the banker makes the bet for 5 years. He believes that the lawyer would not be able to endure 5 years of voluntary imprisonment. In the heat of the moment, the lawyer raises the stakes to fifteen years. He probably does this to prove how serious he is, and how much he believes that he is in the right.
Joe has taught college English courses for several years, has a Bachelor's degree in Russian Studies and a Master's degree in English literature. Anton Chekhov's 'The Bet' examines the value of life. First, it touches on the question of the morality of capital punishment.
His place of confinement is an annex of the banker's home, and any messages he writes must be passed through the only window through which the lawyer can see the outside world. Thus, his confinement begins. Chekhov condenses the lawyer's activities over the first ten years. The lawyer gradually adjusts to his confinement.
In "The Bet," an idealistic young lawyer bets he can survive fifteen years of imprisonment. A banker bets him two million rubles that he can't. Imprisonment breaks the lawyer, however, and he walks out of his cell early so he can't collect his rubles.
Initially, the banker makes the bet for 5 years. He believes that the lawyer would not be able to endure 5 years of voluntary imprisonment. In the heat of the moment, the lawyer raises the stakes to fifteen years. He probably does this to prove how serious he is, and how much he believes that he is in the right.
What is the lawyer's motivation for accepting the bet? The lawyer decides not to take the money. During his confinement, he learns that money and possessions aren't the most important things in life. How does the lawyer change by the end of the story?
Third Person (Limited Omniscient)
The lawyer experiences an internal conflict.
Why is discovering character's motivations in literature important? Motivation affects the theme of a story. Which struggle is an example of external conflict that occurrs in "The Bet" by Anton P. Chekhov?
Anton Chekhov's “The Bet” sets up a seemingly simple bet about the nature and value of life. The banker, who believes that the death penalty is more humane and moral than life imprisonment, argues that experiences, pleasures, and relationships are what make life worth living.
The protagonist in this short story is the banker. A protagonist is a character who initiates the events in the story and the banker is the character that proposes the bet with the lawyer. The antagonist can also be the banker.
In Anton Chekhov's short story “The Bet” a lawyer and a banker make a bet about which penalty is more humane. The lawyer says that life imprisonment is more humane. In saying this, the lawyer bets he can stayed locked up in a cell for 15 years without any human contact and it will show it's more humane.
One of the conflicts is the bet that the lawyer and the banker made to prove that imprisonment for life is a better punishment than death. This conflict is external conflict, man versus man. The other conflict in this story is the conflict inside the lawyer when he is in jail for fifteen years.
The letter that lawyer wrote at the end of the Anton Chekhov's "The Bet" he changed his life and view of life. "Your books made me wise. All that tireless human knowledge,gathered through the centuries is compressed into my skull. I know that I cleverer than all you."(97).
Show activity on this post. In The Bet by Anton Chekhov, the lawyer voluntarily accepts to stay in prison for 15 years, instead of the original agreed upon 5 years.
The banker decides to end the BR by killing the lawyer. As he goes to see the lawyer he finds and reads a letter written by him. The banker doesn't kill the lawyer because the lawyer leaves early and ends the bet. Summarize the story in 5 sentences.
At the end of Anton Chekhov's "The Bet", the lawyer survives the 15 years in prison but refuses to take the money.