Analysis Of The Lady, Or The Tiger? By Frank R. Stockton

Many fantasy fiction stories can be full of action and intensity. The story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” written by Frank R. Stockton shows action and intensity through symbols, conflicts, and in different parts of the story. This story is about how a princess has to decide the prince's fate, for rather if she chooses for him to fall in love with another lady, or to get eaten alive by a tiger. This story took place in B.C inside an arena. As the reader reads on, the reader found out that there was a huge conflict which was, the king didn't like about how the prince'ss was dating the prince, so the king makes the princess choose a door for the prince. Behind the two doors was a very hungry tiger and on the other side of the second door was a lady that the prince would fall in love with, so soon she would have to decide the prince's fate. In the text it also stated, “If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt.”(pg.13).The the greatest point of tension was when the princess was deciding which door to choose for the prince even though earlier she found out which door had the lady and which door had the tiger. The reader never finds out what the ending was, which was what the author wanted
Two of the symbols were the lady, and the tiger. The lady represented true love, even though the tiger represented death. Stated in the text, “Directly opposite him, on the other side of the enclosed space, were two doors exactly alike and side by side.”(pg.13). In that part of the passage, it states that the princess shouldn’t know which door has the lady and which door has the tiger, which then makes the door a symbol because the door is holding either life or death. The arena symbolizes that when the person goes in there he is either going to get life or death based on the princess's