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    “The Bet” is a short story written by Anton Chekhov in 1889. Anton Chekhov was a renowned playwright and short story novelist who rose to fame in the late nineteenth century. He was born on January 29‚ 1860 in Taganrog‚ Russian Empire. Chekhov’s father was a grocery store owner and his mother was a popular storyteller‚ perhaps creating an interest of storytelling to Chekhov at a very early age. “The Bet” is a very popular short story that holds a very important meaning to Chekhov. Anton Chekhov

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    A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted The story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov is a unique tale. In this tale the protagonists are a banker and a lawyer. The main cause of this tale is all because of a bet that was made‚ the banker thinks that the death penalty is more humane that imprisonment for life while the lawyer thinks the opposite. The banker is a man who thinks he is always right‚ he is very overconfident. Another character trait of the banker is greed. His final character trait is conniving

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    stories seem to be losing something valuable yet gaining something that comes from the analysis of our world and life‚ a learning experience‚ like wisdom. “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov‚ is a story based on a lawyer and a banker that both agree on a $2 million bet in which the banker was to remain concerned over the money‚ and the lawyer was to spend fifteen years in solitary confinement who eventually relinquished the bet. Later realizing the true meaning of life and the insignifance of money during his

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    After reading the bet one can see Through the prisoner’s decision‚ the author proves to the reader that money is evil‚ money teaches life lessons‚ and when human will is tested it can be impossible to break. This story proves once and for all money is the root of all evil. When the young man told the older man‚ "The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral‚ but if I had to choose one I would choose the second." This quote caused such excitement for the younger man‚ but he had no

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    Anton Chekhov The Bet It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how‚ fifteen years before‚ he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there‚ and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. 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‚

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    life imprisonment to the death penalty because he felt that living anyhow is better than not at all. The discussion heated up and the banker betted two millions for the lawyer to stay in solitary confinement for five years. The lawyer accepted the bet not for five years but for fifteen years. And accordingly he was lodge in an outhouse in the garden of the banker. The conditions were that he would not see any human beings‚ hear human voices nor receive letters or newspapers. But he was allowed to

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    Wow! 7‚883‚995 minutes sure is a long time to spend in solitary confinement‚ and then not even hang around for the final five minutes to reclaim your prize. The title of this story is "The Bet"‚ and is written by Anton Chekhov. In this story‚ a man takes part in a bet for two million dollars‚ under the conditions that he stays in solitary confinement for fifteen years. The man‚ whom we come to know as "the prisoner"‚ stays in confinement for almost fifteen years when‚ with only five minutes remaining

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    “The Bet” is the story of a bet between a banker and a young lawyer. As the story begins‚ an old Banker is in his room remembering one party 15 years ago when at that time he was young and very well-off. At the party guests eventually started talking about death penalty and life imprisonment and which one of those was worse. Most of the guests (journalists and scientists) didn’t approve death penalty but there was one young Lawyer who said that both death penalty and life imprisonment were inhuman

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    certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all” (Chekhov 1). 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 the short story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov; the lawyer encounters many types of conflicts including man vs. man‚ man

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    Human creation is constantly puzzled by the discovery and purpose of its existence on Earth. One will strive to understand the meaning of life and when found‚ a person will inevitably work hard to achieve their purpose. In the short story "The Bet"‚ Anton Chekov displays the true intentions of our existence through displaying a poor lawyer who is willing to do anything for money. At the end of the story‚ I began to realize that the lawyer is misled to believe that money is essential to life‚ but

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