And The Imporatance In The Gambler, By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” two men, one a banker and the other a lawyer, begin the story arguing about whether or not capital punishment is fair.  The banker is in favor of capital punishment while the lawyer contends that if offered the chance he’d take life in prison.  The banker bets the lawyer two million rubles that he couldn’t survive in prison for fifteen years.  The lawyer agrees to remain in the banker’s “prison” for fifteen years, and if the lawyer lasts those fifteen years he is to receive the two million rubles.  Thus, the stage is set for this short, but powerful commentary on society. 

The expressions of the characters, caused by their surrounding, is also a factor that can alter the psychological traits in a character. The Man states “He does not trust his dreams, believing that they are "the call of languor and of death” (McCarthy 15).The man has a vivid

Reading a narrative from a psychoanalytic perspective can prove to be a sometimes frustrating experience. Psychoanalysis often disregards the actual texts and verbal context of a piece of literature in favor of the Freudian and Lacanian ideas, which seek to find encrypted motifs in the depths of every creation in order to reveal the author’s unconscious mind. Nevertheless, the critiques of psychoanalytic interpretation of literature claim that such interpretations focus on the content of the text at the expense of the literary form and temporal dimension, which can reduce the literary plots to lifeless machinations. Furthermore, psychoanalytic interpretation of a text may tell us less about the author’s unconscious mind and more about the

Doestoevsky delves deep into the mind of Raskolnikov, before, during, and after the vicious murder of Alyona the pawnbroker and her sister. It is concluded that Raskolnikov is a Nihilist, one who believes he is a great man destined to perform great deeds. This Nihilistic attitude is what propels our protagonist toward murder.

The author portrayed the banker as a foolish and greedy man, and since Chekhov characterized him as static, he never changed. His inability to alter his ways resulted in him making an extraordinarily rash bet and later on him wanting to kill a man in cold blood. “That is not true! I bet you two million that you

“The Bet” by Anton Chekhov is a short story that focuses on the value of human life with the character’s different viewpoints on the death penalty and imprisonment for life. The author uses elements of literature to show that the definition of prison society accepted may be wrong. The first element of literature the author uses is characterization. In the story, there are two main characters: the banker and the lawyer. The story begins showing how wealthy the banker is, as shown by the way he threw his money away when he made the bet. In paragraph 5 it says “The banker, who was younger and more nervous in those days, was suddenly carried away by excitement; he struck the table with his fist and shouted at the young man: ‘It 's not true! I 'll bet you two million you wouldn 't stay in solitary confinement for five years.’” This shows that the banker is careless with his money. As for the prisoner, it can be said that he is smart and opinionated as the author shows in paragraph three and four: “Among the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-twenty. When he was asked his opinion, he said: ‘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. To live anyhow is better than not at all.’” With that being said, this quote shows that the lawyer was smart enough to give his opinion on the topic at hand. Comparing the characterization of both men, it

In the short story, “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov, a banker and a young man make a bet with each other based on capital punishment and whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The terms of the wager state that if the lawyer can live in solitary confinement for fifteen years, he will be given two million dollars. When examining the story, the Marxist lens would offer an insight to the ability of symbols and its forms, styles and, meanings. Chekhov connects these themes by utilizing the literary elements of Power. More specifically the power of money, knowledge, language, and competition.

From declaring he wanted to become a Napoleon to wishing for financial independence to murdering for his own sake, he rattles off various motives, showing his obsessive rationalization (394-397). By presenting his conflicting intentions, Dostoevsky exhibits the chaos within Raskolnikov’s mind.

One of the major themes in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov explores who is deserving of and the nature of forgiveness. While this theme is demonstrated throughout the entirety of the novel, it is emphasized and exemplified through Grushenka’s interaction with Alexey Karamazov in Book Six, Chapter III when she recounts the story of the old woman and the onion. Through this scene, Dostoevsky conveys to the audience that even the most wicked of people is deserving of forgiveness. However, forgiveness can only truly be obtained by the wicked on the condition that they repent.

Through psychoanalytic theory, the mind likes to play a lot of games on the victim such as dreams of reality, poems and riddles of the past, and isolation creating the best and worst out of them. Upon the first novel, dreams take control of the mind to unleash the most inner desire. An

Of the prolific 19th century for Russian literature, one of the most important literary figures is the renowned playwright and writer Anton Chekhov. Chekhov’s vast bibliography includes the short story “The Bet” which is, as it sounds, a story about a bet, however, through Chekhov’s use of isolation, harsh realism, and an emphasis on ambiguity he presents an allegorical tale which functions as a critique of man’s pride and arrogance.

Human mind is a very complex structure like a snow crystal. No two crystals are same but the patterns are repeated. To completely understand a person, the various facets of their nature are needed to be explored. Carl Jung had illustrated the human character as the combination of many archetypes, those which are dominant in the conscious nature and also those which are underlying within a person without the knowledge of its presence. These archetypes are the building blocks of a unique character. In a book entitled Murder in Mews by Agatha Christie it is said “It is most rare that anyone does an action that is not dans son caractere. It is in the end monotonous.” (333) It is true if the archetypes of one’s character is thoroughly analyzed, the vast spectrum of human character can be precisely distinguished. Carl Jung also confirmed that after years of empirical analysis, he found the characters to coincide with each other, thus leading him to detect the basic archetypes that form the nature of a person. In the book entitled Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, the story telling style takes a person in a soul searching journey. The use of various archetypes can be found and are used to develop the characters in the book.

A short story’s purpose is to introduce an idea or moral to the reader. In many cases the reader can understand the thesis, but there will be times where the reader is uncertain. The reason for this is because the short story’s moral is profound ironically. Ultimately the reader is able to relate to him or herself in the short story various ways. Likewise the use of irony in, “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov, illustrates the characters and their opposing speculations that demonstrate the importance of human life and confinement. Relating to the thesis of the short story, there are three main points that irony plays a key role on. To begin with, there are the two main character’s roles that guide the reader though both perspectives of their conflicts. There are also main points in their dialect and involvement that Chekhov used to help the reader understand the character’s ironic speculations.

The paper will analyze the literary skills in the novel. The literary styles will be analyzed in the context of their significance in influencing the plot and characters. The literary analysis will include review of the major literature styles the author uses and the characteristics of characters in regards to adapting the requirements of the specific literature styles. Additionally, the review will also include a perspective of the importance of style used by the author.

Anton Chekhov said “In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential.” (Chekhov) These particulars are not always given to the reader by a description, the author may put clues to the personality of a character through describing other things pertaining to the character. An example of this is how the use of literary devices to describe a character’s home may give the reader insight into the characters personality. In both the poem Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol, and the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the literary devices used to describe character’s homes gives the reader an indication of the characters personality and convictions.