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   "The Bet" (Russian: "Пари", romanized: Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a period of fifteen years.

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   Oct 3, 2024 · In "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov, the lawyer voluntarily serves fifteen years in confinement as part of a bet with a banker who wagers with him that he cannot do it. The banker offers the lawyer two ...

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   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. Here's the relevant passage: Here's the relevant passage: "The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, I would certainly choose the second.

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   The lawyer agrees to spend 15 years in... 2 educator answers. The Bet. ... The lawyer's voluntary isolation and... 3 educator answers. The Bet. The evolution of the banker's life, situation, and ...

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   Sep 5, 2023 · The Bet Summary. In “The Bet,” an idealistic young lawyer and a jaded banker make a bet. An idealistic lawyer and a prominent banker bet that the lawyer can’t survive fifteen years in prison ...

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   Sep 11, 2018 · A The banker wishes that he had required the lawyer to stay imprisoned for longer. B The banker comes to realize that he was wrong about his stance on life imprisonment. C The banker mourns the life and experiences that he has deprived the lawyer of.

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   What if a lawyer spent 15 years in isolation?

   • They agreed to a bet: if the lawyer could spend fifteen years in total isolation, the banker would pay him two million rubles. The lawyer would have no direct contact with any other person, but could write notes to communicate with the outside world and receive whatever comforts he desired.

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   How long can a lawyer stay in solitary confinement?

   • The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a period of fifteen years. On 17 December 1888 Nikolai Khudekov, editor of the Peterburgskaya Gazeta, asked Chekhov to write a story for the newspaper.

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   Why does the banker want a lawyer out of a bet?

   • The banker is thrilled with the bet and has plenty of money to spend in such a frivolous way, but, over dinner, he tries to talk the lawyer out of it because the lawyer will lose years of his life. He also feels that submitting to voluntary imprisonment will be more difficult than mandatory imprisonment.

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   What happens if a banker kills a lawyer?

   • The lawyer is imprisoned in the banker’s garden house. Fifteen years later, the banker realizes that he will be ruined if the lawyer collects on the bet. He decides to kill the lawyer. However, the mentally broken lawyer has lost his faith in humanity and gives up on the bet, walking out of his cell five hours before his sentence ends.

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   What happens when a banker kisses a lawyer?

   • Shocked and moved after reading the note, the banker kisses the lawyer on the head and returns to bed. When the banker wakes up later that morning, a watchman reports that the lawyer has climbed out the window and fled the property, forfeiting the bet. To prevent the spread of rumors, the banker locks the note in his safe.

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   How does the banker think about the lawyer?

   • [his habits] suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then another. The banker remembers all of this and thinks about how, tomorrow, the lawyer will be free, and he will owe the man a great sum of money.

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   The Lawyer. Just 25 years old when he attends the banker’s party at the beginning of the story, the lawyer initially asserts that life-imprisonment is far preferable to capital punishment. He proves as reckless as the banker in agreeing to the bet and foolish in lengthening his sentence for the sake of some misplaced pride.