Preview

Ending to The Lady and the Tiger

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
838 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Ending to The Lady and the Tiger
The Princess looked down upon her lover. She saw his young face. Sparkling emerald eyes return her gaze. She knew that if their love affair was discovered it would lead to this?this trial in the king?s arena. She knew that behind the young man stood two doors, one concealed a beautiful blushing lady. Radiant with sapphire eyes and skin as white as the seasons first snow. If the man choose this door he would be married to the lady, on the spot no questions asked. But if the young man chose the other door then his doom was sealed, for a ferocious, merciless creature waited behind this door. With its dark cold eyes and fire-striped coat, lustful for the taste of blood, the tiger crouched behind the door ready to spring. The princess looked at her love. Even with death all around him, all the young man saw was the princess. The princess knew that he would die that day either by the tiger?s teeth and claws or by his own broken heart. For what could be worse than a tiger except perhaps marriage to another while your true love looks on? But the princess held her own secret. For although the secrets of the doors were shrouded in mystery the princess?s plan had been simple. She would beg, bribe, lie, even kill to get her way, and she got it. She knew behind which door stood the lady and behind which door stood the tiger. What?s more, the young man knew that she had learned the secret of the doors. He had expected her to know it. And he knew her well enough to know what door she would pick. He knew whether he would be facing the lady or the tiger. Without hesitation the princess moved her hand to the right. Then her lover standing straight and tall strode quickly over the white sands towards the door. The tiger took his life.

Why would the princess lead the lover to his death? Why would she kill her true love? To understand this we must first understand the princess. The princess dreamed of what it would be like to send her lover to the tiger. The blood and gore made her
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Tiger and the Lady Essay
    • 638 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Tiger and the Lady Essay

    To begin with, I think the princess chose the door with the tiger because she is barbaric. She would probably “want” to see her boyfriend die a rather painful, agonizing death over losing him to another. Secondly, the princess does seem to have “a soul as fervent and imperious as her father’s” (3). I honestly think that she has a heart as devious as her father’s, with that mysterious barbaric urge to see people perish.…

    • 638 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Analysis Of The Story 'The Lady Or The Tiger' By Frank Stockton
    • 613 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Analysis Of The Story 'The Lady Or The Tiger' By Frank Stockton

    Within this story, the royal family is given distinguishing traits that explain why the princess would choose death upon her lover. Because she is the daughter of a “semi-barbaric king” (Stockton 2), the thought of her companion getting eaten by a tiger might be more accepting than losing him to another woman. The princess’s uncivilized mind would overrule the appropriate decision, and choose the tiger.…

    • 613 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Theme Of Jealousy In Frank R. Stockton's The Lady Or The Tiger
    • 922 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Theme Of Jealousy In Frank R. Stockton's The Lady Or The Tiger

    The princess in “The Lady or the Tiger” struggles when determining the youth’s fate either consisting of death or marriage to another beautiful lady as she contemplates “Which [door to open. The answer is] as plain to her as if [the youth] shouted it from where he stood. There was not an instant to be lost. The question [of which door to open] was asked in a flash; it must be answered in another” (Stockton 302). The princess is forced to decide the youth’s fate in a split second. The short amount of time that is taken for her to make her decision suggests that her emotions may have overruled reason and could lead to her regretting her decision later in life. In a single second, lives could be drastically changed. Up until the last moment, the youth, that the princess had loved, believes that she will spare him; he has a blind faith in the princess and trusts in her choices. The king’s daughter’s heart is torn during this point of decision. She must decide whether she would prefer to see the youth dead or with the lady whom she…

    • 922 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Stockton's Cruelty
    • 402 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Stockton's Cruelty

    In the short story “The Lady or The Tiger” written by Frank Stockton, the author didn’t say which door had which inside all we know is that it was the door on the right. Frank Stockton gave evidence of the personalities of the people in which would allow us to decide what was in the door on the right. The princess chose the door with the lion because she is cruel, full of hatred and jealousy.…

    • 402 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Lady Or The Tiger Analysis
    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Lady Or The Tiger Analysis

    Because she is clearly in love with him, she seems to stand firm on her opinion that the thought of another woman being with him is sickening. Finally, the princess believes that it would be less complicated if he were to die so that she may see him again in the afterlife. The princess was repulsive toward the idea of the ‘young man’ being with another woman. Therefore, if he were to die by the hands (or paws; tee hee) of the tiger, then they could be together in the afterlife. Furthermore, it was illegal for a servant/peasant to be in love with the princess; therefore, making the decision easier. If the two lovers cannot be together while they were alive, then they could be together in the afterlife when the two of them had both passed. In conclusion, the princess signaled for the ‘young man’ to open the door with the tiger because: the princess was semi-barbaric and relished in the sight of blood/violence, she was more afraid of seeing the ‘young man’ with another woman, and they could simply be with one another in the afterlife (due to the laws that outlaw all romance between royalty and non-royalty.) So the next person that is to read the shocking story, choose correctly when given the honoring opportunity to select the…

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Irony In 'The Lady, Or The Tiger?'
    • 1154 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Irony In 'The Lady, Or The Tiger?'

    There are many ways to make a story interesting. There are many definitions for interesting, but usually means to get the attention of something. Irony, the opposite of what is expected is one way to make a story interesting. There are three types of irony: situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony. Situational irony is when what happens is the opposite from what is expected. Verbal irony is when what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that a character does not know. There are many stories that use irony to make them more interesting such as "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote, "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton, "Thank You, M'am" by Langston Hughes and "The…

    • 1154 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Tiger Alternate Ending
    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Tiger Alternate Ending

    Then as he opened the door, out came the tiger. The man ran as fast as he could, meanwhile the princess briskly took her father’s bow and arrow, loaded it, pulled back, let go and… She shot the tiger. It fell down in distress and the sob was so horrible it made the princess cry a little.…

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Hope Is Alway To Be Found
    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Hope Is Alway To Be Found

    The young lover was thrown into jail for the liking of his daughter. Until, one day when the boys trail was due. He was tossed into the King's arena where you could pick one door with a lady whom he had to marry or a man eating tiger. As the young boy looked and his love she gave him a sign. “Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation.…

    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Of Mice and Men Alternate Ending
    • 1128 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Of Mice and Men Alternate Ending

    Lennie watched as the Frog bounded between the Lilly pads on the water, he saw the frog’s eyes dart suddenly, as it sensed its prey was near. It sank under the water and let the current pull it down stream and then suddenly it jumped out of the water like a cork comes out of a wine bottle, its eyes gleamed and its tongue darted out of its mouth and in a flash the fly was gone. “That’ll be me in a sec” mumbled Lennie hopelessly. There was a faint buzzing sound then the frog was gone as quickly as it had come. Silence once again fell on the river much to Lennie’s disappointment, he liked not having to think of the mornings happenings.…

    • 1128 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Lady, or the Tiger?
    • 454 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Lady, or the Tiger?

    In “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, a woman, so distraught at the fact that she is losing her lover, ushers her love toward one of two doors. This door either contains a tiger, which will gruesomely maul him, or a woman who he is forced to take as his bride. The reader is led to believe that the woman points her lover to the door containing a ferocious tiger. A quote which supports the thesis that the princess had sent her lover to his doom is, “How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!” (Stockton 6). This quote illustrates how the hot-headed and semi-barbaric princess often dreams about sending her love to his doom rather than having to lose him to another girl. The princess thought that if she had lost him, then no one else has the right to have him. Additionally, “But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph” (6). This quote also explains how much agony the princess would have to face if her lover were to open the door with his future wife inside. The princess, through her selfishness, was not willing to see the enlightened look on her lovers face when he saw his future bride exit the door. Furthermore, “Would it not be better for him to die at once, and wait for her to join him in the future?” (7). The princess thought that she could be rejoined in heaven with the young man who she had fallen in love with because she knew that her father would never allow her to be with him again on Earth. She believed in the afterlife and I believe that she thought that he would be happier…

    • 454 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Jealousy: The Story Of The Princess By Frank R. Stockton
    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Jealousy: The Story Of The Princess By Frank R. Stockton

    There’s a semi-barbaric king who punishes or rewards the supposed or possible wicked criminals. How is that decided? They are put into an arena and are faced with two doors, one with a beautiful maiden the other with a hungry tiger out for blood, they decide their fate by choosing one of the doors. This uncivilized, showy, unrestrained king had a daughter similar in character she was in love with a beautiful, tall man who was low in rank. They’re involved in a love affair. Who’d dare love the princess especially this king’s daughter? The king finds out and sentences the young man to the arena, but he had no fear for he knew the princess would find out which door hold the maiden and which the tiger. Indeed she found out, but she was full of jealousy of the idea of her loved one with the maiden, a pretty one at that. So will she send her lover to the maiden’s door or to the tiger? We will see how Frank R. Stockton, the author, cautions the reader to carefully consider the question of whether it was lady or the tiger that came out of the arena doors. Although he never answers the question himself I believe it was the tiger. Please consider why.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Alternate Ending to the Monkeys Paw
    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Alternate Ending to the Monkeys Paw

    The old delusional lady snatched the paw away from his grasp, mumbling excitedly to herself she held the paw tight and said fiercely ‘I wish my son alive again.’ She frequently repeated it over and over until it became a jumbled chant; when suddenly a slow but insistent knock rang through the desolate house.…

    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Lady or the Tiger
    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Lady or the Tiger

    * the spirit of the lady again flickered up as the flame within the socket of the lamp: Simile comparing the lady's spirit to a flame.…

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Of Mice And Men Ending Analysis
    • 303 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Of Mice And Men Ending Analysis

    At first you might think that yes because he ended him friends life,but if you really think about the whole situation George was just making Lennies life easier by ending it because if he didn't kill him they still would of found him somewhere,they would make him suffer by probably putting him in jail, taking him to a mental hospital. But basically any other option would of made him suffer and that exactly what George didn't want for Leannie because even though George knew that what Lennie did was wrong they were still friends that traveled together and have know each other for along time. So i don't think its mean because i would probably do the same,just not the shooting part because i wouldn't be able to do it.But i would have someone else…

    • 303 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Tiger's Bride Literary Analysis
    • 1081 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The Tiger's Bride Literary Analysis

    In the short story “The Tiger’s Bride,” by Angelia Carter, a highly aware narrator, relates how events affect her with a detached, unfriendly perspective. The narrator makes explicit the predicament of women’s existence by highlighting her condition. Finding herself caught between two society’s one where she is viewed as an object and having no voice and the other society having a voice somebody wanting to connect with her on a sexual level. Brooke demonstrates this by bringing notice to the importance of the power of virginity and the sexual freedom.…

    • 1081 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics