Though the trial and imprisonment of the criminal is depicted in a comic mode in this story, it does give rise to serious questions. What are they?
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‘Too dear!’ tells the story of monaco, a small kingdom in europe. the author’s intention is to parody the efforts of the modern state to violently restrain crime. monaco had a small population, a small army and was ruled by a kinglet. since it was a very small kingdom, it had meagre financial resources. the people lived peacefully but somehow a murder was committed. the criminal was tried as per the existing rules of the state and was finally sentenced to death. but, there was neither a guillotine machine nor an executioner in the state.
Therefore the king and the ministers made sincere attempts to borrow them from their neighbours the french government and the king of italy. after weighing the pros and cons of incurring a huge expenditure the king gave up the idea of getting the criminal executed and changed it to imprisonment for life. this cost the king 600 francs. when the king reflected over the cost, it struck him that the cost would become a big burden if the criminal lived another fifty years.
Again, the king and his ministers met discussed the issue and dismissed the guard believing that the criminal would run away on his own. but the criminal refused to go. finally, the criminal was offered a small pension and paid one-third of his annuity as advance. he left the prison and emigrated to another country .
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Count Leo Tolstoy is Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy is a master of realistic friction and is widely considered as one of the world's greatest novelist. He is the best known for two long novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' the short story explodes the greed of the rulers of Monaco a small country with the population of about 7000 inhabitants with the impactical steps taken while confessing serious issues to dear do return in a comic mode away come tomorrow thinking and rises serious questions.
near the borders of France and Italy on the shore of Mediterranean sea lies a tiny Kingdom called Monaco. it is a toy Kingdom where a real Kinglet rules over the country.