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A banker and a young lawyer make a bet about imprisonment and freedom. The story follows the consequences of their bet and the transformation of the prisoner.
A lawyer accepts a bet to live in solitary confinement for fifteen years and emerges with a new perspective on life. Read the full text, annotations, and study guide of this classic realist tale by Chekhov.
The Bet study guide contains a biography of Anton Chekhov, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. More books than SparkNotes.
A lawyer accepts a bet to be imprisoned for fifteen years by a banker who challenges his views on capital punishment. The story explores the themes of freedom, life, and death through the lawyer's transformation and the banker's regret.
Sep 5, 2023 · A young lawyer accepts a bet from a banker to spend fifteen years in solitary confinement in the banker's garden. The story explores the themes of...
A banker and a lawyer make a bet on whether life in prison is better than death. The lawyer spends fifteen years in solitary confinement and learns to value life and salvation.
A comprehensive guide to Anton Chekhov's short story The Bet, which explores the themes of fate, morality, and human nature. Learn about the plot, characters, symbols, literary devices, and historical context of this classic work of Russian Realism.
Readers should notice how the initial bet—determining whether the death penalty or life imprisonment is more humane—transforms into a bet about whether the lawyer can survive in solitary confinement.
“The Bet” is a complex moral tale that follows a banker and a lawyer who enter a bet to prove their beliefs about which is worse, life in prison or the death penalty. Chekov’s unnamed characters embark on a wager in which they each stand to lose a great deal. This guide refers to 52 Short-Stories: 1883-1898, a collection of Chekhov’s works translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Knopf, 2020).
1. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. 2. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life.
