Question

Narrate the sequence of events which led to Heyele's accepting the offer of the Fatalist​

Answer 1

The Fatalist was in love with Heyele’s. He proposes Heyele’s saying that it is the fate that they get married and why to delay the inevitable. Heyele, already being engaged to someone else poses the Fatalist a challenge. She challenges that he should be lying down on the train tracks while the train passes over on to him. He lives or dies is his fate. The Fatalist agrees to the challenge but in turn states that; if he does so and lives, Hyele should break her engagement and marry him. Being sure that the Fatalist would change his mind about the challenge, Hyele agrees to the challenge.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

1. Mikhail Lermontov wrote a novel named ‘A Hero of Our Time’, which includes a short story ‘The Fatalist’.
2. Pechorin, the narrator of this story told about a young man called Benjamin Schwartz, who was nicknamed as Fatalist, because of his strong belief in the role of fate in all events of life.
3. Heyele Minz was a rich young woman, who challenged him to lie down before a passing train, to prove his words.
4. He accepted this challenge with a condition that she would be his wife if he won.
5. Though he went in front of a running train, it stopped before him and he was abused by the rail engineer and fireman. So finally, Heyele married Benjamin.