- Do you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all?"
- Why does the narrator call the bet "wild and senseless"?
- Why, after reading the classics for three years, does the lawyer act the way he does (angrily talking to himself, not reading books, throwing his writing away, crying)?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Extra Credit for Chekhov's "The Bet"
If you are interested, below are 3 questions for you to answer as extra credit. Please post your responses to the blog. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, 9/14. Only quality answers will be given credit. Here are the questions:
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1.no i dont agree with the lawyer because to live anyhow is good if you live in a happy way but if your in jail i would rather not be alive because if yuor in jail there is no point in living because yuo will just be suffering
ReplyDelete2.i think he calls it wild and senseless becasue just somebody who is really wild or crazy would spend 15 years in jail and in the end not take the money
3.i think he is does that because he might have thought he wasnt good enough like the writers who wrote the book and he cried because he might ave thought he was lonely and was wasting his time in that lodge
Do you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all?"
ReplyDeleteANS: It really depends because not many people have the right mentality to endure life imprisonment so they'd rather be finished off instead. I on the other hand, don't mind the death sentence or life in prison because i'm pretty sure i'd find a way out. If I can't manage to break free from prison which I highly doubt, manslaughter and Prozac are always an option.
Why does the narrator call the bet "wild and senseless"?
ANS: I'm not entirely sure. Maybe it's "senseless" because the ending result of the bet was pointless. You'd expect the Banker or the Lawyer to win or lose the money after the fifteen years were up. It's probably "wild" in the sense that fifteen years of someone's life was thrown away.
Why, after reading the classics for three years, does the lawyer act the way he does (angrily talking to himself, not reading books, throwing his writing away, crying)?
ANS: It's either because of melancholia, regret, loneliness, or insanity had finally caught up to him.
1)I would have to say that I agree. Living is a gift and if you were to not live at all, what would be the relevance in living at all? It doesn't really matter how you live, so long as you are happy with it. Overall, in my opinion, it would really depend on the situation you are in.
ReplyDelete2)The narrator probably called it "wild and senseless" on the fact that the lawyer was so quick to prove the banker wrong by "SENSELESSLY" increasing the time from 5 to 15 years. The "WILD" part is the lawyer putting money over 15 years of life and being able to live freely.
3)It's probably because after the lawyer continued to see the world from another perspective, he begins to realize the ugly form of materialism. Also, how life truly is not life if it's all about getting everything. Maybe he even realized he was one of those materialistic people, thus leading to him having a change of heart and deciding to leave the $2 million behind.
Do you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all?"
ReplyDeleteANSWER: I agree with the lawyer because living is a privilege. You get to explore the world and have all of the great experiences we get other than just being dead and six feet under. you get to be with the people you love when you're alive, and you wont be able to be with them if you're not alive. Also, the people who loves you wouldn't get to be with you and that might really affect them, and you wouldnt want them affected because of you.
Why does the narrator call the bet "wild and senseless"?
ANSWER:I think he called the bet "wild and senseless" because it wasn't thought out at all. All they did was talk about it, then the lawyer quickly took the bet and increased the time from 5-15 years. It was like, "KABOOM!" and the bet set. None of them was thinking about what they would lose, only what they would win.
Why, after reading the classics for three years, does the lawyer act the way he does (angrily talking to himself, not reading books, throwing his writing away, crying)?
ANSWER:I think it's because he sees the world differently after learning from others perspectives by reading the classics. One of those classics he read probably touched him so deep, he realized that he didn't need the money to live a happy life, and that's maybe the reason why he ran off and left his chance of gettion the $2 million. He probably also realized things like him missing his family and tearing his life apart because he wanted the money so bad, he regrets it and confused about what to do.
1) I Would have to agree with the Lawyer, because suffering or not, what is better than Living. Living is such a gift, nobody should take away others life's, no one has the right. So for a person to live is better than nothing, because nobody really knows what the future awaits for us, so if you take away life than you will never know the future.
ReplyDelete2)Well the author calls it "Wild", becuase the Lawyer instead of taking on the 5years for $2million he adds it to 15years showing that the Lawyer wants to prove something without actually realizing what is yet to be done. The author calls it "Senseless",because after completing the 15years the Lawyer turns the $2million for something more valueble, thus teaching many that money cant by time.
3)I think this happened,because at first the Lawyer might have tought that by getting many materials time will fly by or just make him think differently, but truth is that after his tears and desperateness he realized that he doesnt need riches and materials when the most valueble thing is the brain and how it makes a human beign change their point of view and makes them realize that their are far more valueble things than materials.
1)I do agree with the quote "To live anyhow is better than not at all" because many people might think that their life's should revolve around materials, that they seem to forget that as long as you have health and something or someone to inspire you, life will always be good.
ReplyDelete2)I think that the narrator calls the bet "wild and senseless" because he might see the bet as too extreme and seems to be able to analyze the repercussions in a more careful way than the Lawyer or the banker who are caught up on beating one other.
3)I think the Lawyer's behavior is because of the loneliness and realization of how extreme his end of bet was, in other words he realized that maybe he had bitten off more than he can chew.
1. Do you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all?"
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the quality of your life and how much you value it. Quality being the status for example if you were imprisoned for life in Guantanamo Bay it would be better to be dead. Value as in how much you see self worth.
2. Why does the narrator call the bet "wild and senseless"?
It served no great purpose as it simply would come at a loss loss as the lawyer would lose 15 years of his life and the banker would lose 2 million.
3. Why, after reading the classics for three years, does the lawyer act the way he does (angrily talking to himself, not reading books, throwing his writing away, crying)?
During the time he was there he was most likely going insane, the lawyer must have realized how lost he was becoming as the books became his reality. His writing being thrown away would probably be a desperate attempt of contact pretending it would be toward a human being to try to regain his sense of reality by having evaluation of his thoughts by another person. A somewhat form of self therapy. Later on he becomes calm as he loses care of what he formerly considered a reality and finds out what is present is what is real.