"The Bet" Anton Chekhov

1. Voluntary Confinement The Bet by Anton Chekhov

6. Two themes presented in The Bet are the importance of human life and greed. During the time the lawyer spends in the shed, he learns that life is more important than all possessions. Also, greed is shown when the lawyer is willing to give up 15 years of his life for money, “Can it prove that the death penalty is better than imprisonment for life? No, no. It was all nonsensical and meaningless.”

8. The most obvious choice for where to film this movie would be Russia. That is where the story takes place so it would make the most sense to have the movie filmed there. We would want a fairly large house with a shed in the back. It would also look better if we filmed this while it was snowing. That is just an opinion, but I think it would help set the mood for this story.

10. What Oprah’s Reading “ To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two million…(Chekhov) We Critique The Bet by Anton Chekhov