1. Greed For Money was the motivation for betting. Do you agree or disagree
2. How does isolation affect him at different stages over the 15 year period?
3. The banker sees his bet as "the caprice of a pampered man". How does he feel about himself at the end of the 15 yrs. What does does reveal about Chekhov's view of what is important in life?
4. At what points in the reading did you need to revise your predictions of what was to happen next?
5. What is the story's theme - human experience? Can several thematic statements apply to this story?
6. Restate the philosophy revealed in the lawyer's letter, point by point, and give your reaction to each point. How could the lawyer's views provide a commentary on the state of Russian society during the last years of czarist rule?
2007-05-15 18:50:44 · 4 answers · asked by hotguykillers 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Read this to assist you:
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
Overview
At a dinner party in the beginning of this story, an old banker and a young lawyer argue over whether or not "capital punishment and life imprisonment are equally immoral." To determine the truth in this matter they decide to make a bet, agreeing that the Lawyer will live without human contact for fifteen years, and in return, the Banker will pay him 2 million dollars. After providing the Lawyer with a cell, innumerable books, and other comforts for fifteen years, the Banker realizes he is about to lose the bet. Facing bankruptcy and humiliation, he decides to kill the Lawyer. The Banker is stunned when he learns that minutes before he would have received millions, the Lawyer renounced his prize and abandons civilization.
IssuesThis story addresses
1. capital punishment,
2. gambling,
3. greed,
4. violence.
“The Bet” is the story of a bet that stakes a banker's two million rubles against fifteen years of a young lawyer's life. As the story opens, the banker is recalling the occasion of the bet fifteen years before. Guests at a party that he was hosting that day fell into a discussion of capital punishment; the banker argued that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment, while the young lawyer disagreed, insisting that he would choose life in prison rather than death. As the argument became more heated, the banker angrily wagered two million rubles.
2007-05-18 23:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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RE "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov?
1. Greed For Money was the motivation for betting. Do you agree or disagree
2. How does isolation affect him at different stages over the 15 year period?
3. The banker sees his bet as "the caprice of a pampered man". How does he feel about himself at the end of the 15 yrs. What does does reveal about Chekhov's view of what is important in life?
4. At what points in the reading did you need to revise your predictions of what was to happen next?
5. What is the story's theme - human experience? Can several thematic statements apply to this story?
6. Restate the philosophy revealed in the lawyer's letter, point by point, and give your reaction to each point. How could the lawyer's views provide a commentary on the state of Russian society during the last years of czarist rule?
2014-10-12 02:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-23 02:14:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the excerpt, what motivated the lawyer to wager the bet?
2015-05-26 05:49:04 · answer #4 · answered by Tahjion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋