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Tolstoy and Shakespeare
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
The short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" By Tolstoy serves to teach a lesson to the reader. It is a morality play explaining the sin of greed and how it leads to trouble. The story begins with a peasant complaining that he does not have enough land. "If I had plenty of land, I shouldn't fear the Devil himself!" (Tolstoy 140) Land is thereby equated with lack of fear. In the end, greed is what causes the peasant Pahom's death. He believes that he can outwit his neighbors and get their land at a fraction of its value. His cockiness leads him to have a heart attack at sunset and be...
"Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed" (140). The title of the story becomes ironic in light of the story's conclusion. In the case of Pahom, all the land a man needs in the end is enough to bury him.
Author Tolstoy uses a man who has nothing to show that this lesson applies to everyone, wealthy and poor. When Pahom gets more land, he becomes a tyrant to those less fortunate. This would indicate to the reader that anyone is capable of descending the same way as Pahom. "Why should I suffer in this narrow hole, if one can live so well elsewhere?" (140). The moral becomes that nothing will be good enough…
Works Cited:
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006. Print.
Tolstoy, Leo. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short
Stories. New York: Dover, 1993. Print.
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