Third Person (Limited Omniscient)
Succumbing to the power of greed, the banker resolves to kill the lawyer to avoid losing his fortune, but changes his mind after finding a letter written by the lawyer where he renounces “the stuff of the earth” and declares he will break the terms of the bet.
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?
The banker, by this time, has gone broke due to his own recklessness and gambling. He begins to worry that the lawyer's bet with him will ruin him financially. In it, the lawyer proclaims his intention to renounce earthly goods in favor of the spiritual blessings.
In Chekhov's "The Bet," the banker and the lawyer both learn the futility of their wager, as they have found that life and its conditions differ greatly from their more youthful perceptions. The lawyer learns that his sweeping statement that life on any terms is better than death is not true.
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.
In Anton Chekov's short story "The Bet", the conflict is between the lawyer and the banker who disagree on terms of capital punishment....
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.
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.
What do you think this says about his life? The lawyer takes the bet so he won't be proven wrong. This says he is daring. At the beginning of the story they want the fortunes and by the end they don't.
The banker wins the bet. The attorney escapes the night before he is to win the bet. He writes a letter to the banker in which he explains his...