The Lady Or The Tiger
Everyone has to make choices in their life. Whether it is what to eat or what one is going to do after they graduate. Some choices take a lot of thought. In “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, a barbaric king makes people choose between two doors. Behind one door waits a hungry tiger who will tear the person apart. Behind the other stands a woman who they will marry the moment the person opens the door no matter what. The king had a daughter. A man fell in love with her and her father was not happy. The princess tried to point to a door but her lover did not understand. The princess did not want him marrying another woman so she was filled with jealousy. The princess secretly pointed to the right door. The door had a tiger
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Fear filled the lover’s eyes. Without even a second more the tiger attacks slaughtering its victim in a few quick bloody seconds.The story states that, “But if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects; and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward for his innocence. It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection.” The princess hated that her lover would have to marry another woman if he chose her door. The princess was jealous at this thought and decided to take fate into her own hands. In the story it says, “This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.” It means she was just like her father and she was not only driven by the jealousy of another woman but she wanted to see what would happen. The story also observes that, “It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her.” The princess hated the lady behind the door. The princess tried to get him to go through the right door because she hates the lady that her lover would have had
Fear filled the lover’s eyes. Without even a second more the tiger attacks slaughtering its victim in a few quick bloody seconds.The story states that, “But if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects; and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward for his innocence. It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection.” The princess hated that her lover would have to marry another woman if he chose her door. The princess was jealous at this thought and decided to take fate into her own hands. In the story it says, “This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.” It means she was just like her father and she was not only driven by the jealousy of another woman but she wanted to see what would happen. The story also observes that, “It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her.” The princess hated the lady behind the door. The princess tried to get him to go through the right door because she hates the lady that her lover would have had