![]() ![]() Some of Chekhov’s famous works include ‘Ward no. He is also counted among the likes of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg to have introduced early modernism in theatre. ![]() Just as the lawyer’s time of imprisonment is about to end, the banker decides to kill his prisoner but when he goes sin to do so, something changes his decision.īorn on 29th January, 1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, considered to be one of the greatest writers of short-fiction. Years pass by and the banker goes bankrupt. ![]() The banker believes that the death penalty is better because it doesn’t drag on the pain of the gruesome punishment and is over in a splash but the lawyer thinks the opposite.įollowing a heated argument at a dinner party about which mode of punishment is better life imprisonment or death penalty, a young lawyer and a banker enter a bet wherein the lawyer would have to stay in solitary confinement on the banker’s property for fifteen years, at the completion of which he would get two million dollars. ![]() One of Chekhov’s many remarkable literary pieces, ‘The Bet’ is the story of a banker and a lawyer who enter a bet in order to prove their own belief about death penalty and life in prison. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” ![]()
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