The bet After reading the bet by chekhovs one can see through the young mans decisions the cost of capital punishment versus life imprisonment as both equally immoral In my beliefs and views of the young mans decision was the value of human life money teaches life lessons and the lack of courage to endure reality The story begins with a heated debate between a banker and many clever men on capital punishment versus life imprisonment The host of the gathering was the banker who started the debat
In the short story The Bet by Anton Chekhow a lawyer that we later know as the prisoner and a banker agree to a two million dollar bet in which the lawyer would spend fifteen years in solitary confinement Basically the bet was based on the death penalty or life imprisonment the lawyer choosing life imprisonment over death Neither the banker or the lawyer had not won the bet beacause they both broken rules by having human contact writing letters and also leaving minutes early The banker had brok