The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

The Three Questions

-- Leo Tolstoy

D.A.Q (5 Marks)

Q. What was the primary question of the Tsar? Discuss the solution that he got from the hermit?

Answer: The Tsar wanted to know the answer of three questions to get success. The first question was – What was the proper time to start something. He did not get satisfactory reply to this question from the learned men of his kingdom. So he visited a hermit, noted for his wisdom. The hermit told him that the most effective time to start something is - ‘Now’ as a result of it's the sole time once one has power.

Q. Who was the wounded man? Why did he wish to kill the Tsar? Who wounded him and how?

Answer: The wounded man was the brother of the Tsar's enemy.

He needed to kill the Tsar as a result of the Tsar once made dead his brother and appropriated his property.

The Tsar's bodyguard wounded the person once the person was looking forward to the Tsar to be killed. The man knew that the Tsar had gone alone to fulfill the hermit. So he set to require his revenge on the czar on his approach back. But the Tsar did not return. Then the man came out from his ambush to find the Tsar. As soon as he came out he came upon the bodyguard of the Tsar. The Tsar's bodyguard at once recognized him and wounded him immediately. Thus the bearded man was wounded.

Q. How did the king and the hermit help the wounded man?

Answer: The king and the hermit helped the wounded man by providing him the shelter and protected from the army. The king washed and covered the wound of the man with his handkerchief, but the blood would not stop flowing. The king re-dressed the wound till it stopped trauma. They took him to hut for taking rest and king also gave him fresh water after being relaxed.

Q. “Forgive me” said the bearded man. Why did the person elicit the Tsar’s forgiveness? Explain.

Answer: The bearded man was the enemy of the Tsar who sore to revenge himself on the Tsar because he had executed his brother and seized his property. The man came to understand that the czar had gone alone to go to the hermit, and he resolved to kill the Tsar on his way back. But day passed and therefore the czar failed to come. So the man came out of his ambush and came upon the Tsar’s bodyguard recognized him and wounded him. The man somehow managing him loose from them finally reached to the Tsar. The Tsar washed his wounds and saved his life. So the man begged an apology of the Tsar.

Q. “You have already been answered.” Who said this and to whom? Explain the line.

Answer: The above quoted line was said by the hermit to the Tsar.

Explaining his sentence, the hermit tells the Tsar that if he had not pitied his weakness and had not dug those two beds for him, but had gone his way that bearded man would have attacked him, and he would have repented of not having stayed with him. So, for the Tsar the most important time was when he was digging the beds; and the hermit was the most important man; and to do him well was his most important business.

Q. What were the three queries of the Tsar? What reply did he get from the hermit?

Answer: The Tsar wanted to know the reply of three questions to succeed in life. Firstly, he wanted to know the right time for every action. Secondly, he needed to understand the foremost vital individuals for him, and finally he wanted to know the most important work for him. In order to find proper reply, the Tsar visited a hermit wherever the hermit told him that the proper time for each action is currently. The most important person is one with whom one is now, and the most important occupation is to do the person good.

Q. What were the hermit’s answers to the three questions? Write each answer separately. Which answer do you like most, and why?

Answer: In answer to Tsar's first question, the hermit said that there is only one important time 'Now'. It is the only time when you have power to act.

In answer to Tsar's second question, the hermit said that the most important person is the one, with whom we are at the present.

In response to Tsar's second question, the hermit answered that the most important thing to do is to do that person good.

I like the solution of the primary question the foremost as a result of time has the supreme power. It will take you to height if you are doing one thing sensible and might additionally cause you to fall on the bottom if you will not act in presence. One should live and act according to present.

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