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    Topic: Leo Tolstoy: The Three Questions (Plot analysis, characterization, themes)

    Subject: Short Fictional Narratives


    Week/Lecture # 6
    Class: BS English
    Semester: 3rd
    Teacher: Saima Perveen
    Department of English
    Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan
    Outline
    Introduction to Leo Tolstoy
    Title significance of The Three Questions
    Plot analysis of The Three Questions
    Setting & character
    Literary Elements and Themes
    Leo Tolstoy

    Born on September  9,  1828,


      Died on  20  November 1910  
    Russian novelist regarded as one of the greatest of all time.
    Known as a great realistic writer of world literature.
    His famous works are:
     War and Peace
    Anna Karenina
     A Confession
     Resurrection.
    The Three Questions
    By

    Leo Tolstoy

    The title "three question“ is an appropriate title with a note of suspense and
    clear applicability to them. The story is about the three questions that troubled a
    certain Tsar's mind. The Tsar was intelligent an honest. He was haunted with
    the three issue that a good and intelligent rule must solve firmly.
    Exposition

    The emperor needed to know the three answers


    to the questions.
    Rising Action

    He got many men to try to give him the


    right answers, but they didn't.
    Climax

    When the hermit and the king saw the


    bearded man bleeding and the king
    ran to help.
    Falling Action

    The king took care of the man and they fell


    asleep.
    Resolution

    The hermit answered his questions


    Characters
    The Emperor
    Someone who is unyielding to solve problems, humble and kind. It is
    shown in the story that he did in the royal decree to climb the hill to meet
    the hermit. He also costumed him cloth like a farmer
    The Hermit
    Someone who is wise, mysterious. He means to give an answer very reality
    but he give an answer with him own way
    The Sworn Enemy
    A man who was seriously injured on horseback. Initially it wants to kill the
    emperor but described in the story he was one who admitted his guilt.
    Mood and Setting

    Mood
    Curious
    Setting
    A medieval times in the kingdom of a
    certain king
    Symbols

    Beds that king digs up


    They symbolize the most important time: the present
    Symbolized most important business which was doing good
    The bearded man's wound
    Also symbolized the most important time, because he
    would be dead if he had not helped him that very
    moment
    It is what made the king and
    Themes
    Wisdom
    Knowledge
    Awareness
    Kindness
    Forgiveness
    Acceptance
    Abandonment of self-interest
    Review of Lecture
    Introduction to Leo Tolstoy
    Title significance of The Three Questions
    Plot analysis of The Three Questions
    Setting & character
    Literary Elements and Themes

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