kills a man at once‚ life-long imprisonment kills him slowly. Then a young lawyer of twenty-five years of age‚ who was amoung the guests was asked to comment‚ who preferred 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
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Anton Chekhov’s Concerning Love is exactly that‚ a short story concerning the love that both Alyokhin and Anna Luganovich feel for each other but never act upon. The love started when Alyokhin took up a part-time job in town as the honorary justice of peace. Through his work he met Anna’s husband‚ Dmitry Luganovich‚ who invited Alyokhin back to his house for dinner. Alyokhin immediately took a strong liking towards Anna‚ “…here was a young‚ beautiful‚ kind‚ intelligent‚ enchanting woman‚ unlike
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In the bit from Anton Chekhov’s play “The Brute” we learn that the play is filled with situations contrived by the writer do make the readers laugh. Essentially speaking there are three characters in the plot that give way to funny and haniense situations through their actions and comments. It goes without saying that the play owes much of its farcical appeal to the funny comments resorted to by the characters. When Popova tells him that she is in a state of mind‚ Smirnov not only ridicules her
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THE SHOEMAKER AND THE DEVIL by Anton Chekhov IT was Christmas Eve. Marya had long been snoring on the stove; all the paraffin in the little lamp had burnt out‚ but Fyodor Nilov still sat at work. He would long ago have flung aside his work and gone out into the street‚ but a customer from Kolokolny Lane‚ who had a fortnight before ordered some boots‚ had been in the previous day‚ had abused him roundly‚ and had ordered him to finish the boots at once before the morning service. "It ’s a convict
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Commentary on The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (This commentary is based on the extract from the play by Chekhov‚ A. (translated by Chernomordik‚ V). The Three Sisters‚ Grove Press‚ New York‚ pp 66-68. The extract starts with “Well. They are saying we should take up a subscription” and ends with “don’t you think? It’s not right.”) The above passage is a dialog extracted from the third act of Chekhov’s play The Three Sisters. The work was written In Russia in the year 1900. This was during
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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 comes to the conclusion that other things are of superiority. As the plot unfolds‚ Chekov depicts
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Shakespeare and Chekhov are my two favorite dramatists (which makes me feel a bit conventional‚ but sometimes conventions come about for good reasons)‚ and they both share a profound ability to create fully rounded‚ psychologically complex characters. What interests me most in theater--really in all literature--the way a good writer can suggest the inner life of a particular individual. Where the two differ‚ of course‚ is in the context those characters operate in. Shakespeare’s characters see themselves
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Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Love and Morality in the “The Lady with the Lapdog” by Anton Chekhov Introduction The “Lady with the Lapdog‚” is a story by a Russian author Anton Chekhov. It is a story that raises eyebrows and entices the mind as one reads through to understand the actions of the two main characters‚ Anna and Gurov. Their actions are looked down and unspeakable according to the Russian society. Chekhov has successfully managed to show how self-pleasure rise above everything in his short
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Ms. Tobin Honors English II April 22‚ 2013 “The Bet” “The Bet” a story written by Anton Chekhov‚ is a tale of a two contrasting characters that make a bet that takes an unexpected twist at the end. The lawyer and the banker both make a bet that consists of the lawyer to spend 15 years in imprisoned in the bankers house‚ if he survives he gets 2 million dollars ‚ if not he loses his freedom for those years with no money what so ever. This bet was made at a party hosted by the banker when these
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"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The story has a twist ending. 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
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