In the ruckus of life, love and jealousy can become intertwined and destroy the other. Jealousy can strangle all life out of the love that has been formed over time. In Frank R. Stockton’s short story titled “The Lady or the Tiger?”, this exact situation occurs. A youth falls in love with a king’s daughter, which is forbidden by society, so in return, the youth is thrown into jail by the king and put on trial for his convicted crime of treason against the kingdom. In the story, it is revealed that…
In the short story, “ The Lady, or the Tiger “ by Frank R. Stockton there lived a barbaric king who is blander and genial who made his prisoner choose between two doors to determine there life after they leave the arena. In one of those two doors there is a tiger that will kill him if he chooses that door. The other door has the lady who will marry him if he chooses her. The prisoner knew which door the lady was in and which door the tiger was in. He saw her coming in. The story does not say what…
In the short story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” the author, Frank R. Stockton, combines a royal kingdom with a semi barbaric king and princess. A gentleman, that wasn’t royal, had fell in love with the beautiful princess. The king wouldn’t allow it. The boy wasn’t allowed to love the king’s daughter, it was against the rules of the kingdom. As we keep reading we learn that the king declares that the boy must be put in the arena, where is to choose between two doors, the right door and the left door…
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…
Warning! Warning! Warning! In Frank Stockton’s short story “The Lady, or the Tiger,” the readers are introduced to the daughter of a semi-barbaric king and her lowly lover, who was sentenced to go into the King’s arena and choose between two doors: behind one door is a beautiful maiden, and behind the other is a savage, relentless tiger. In a surprise ending, Stockton does not specify which door the lover chose. Instead, he poses the question and warns the readers, “Think of it, fair readers,…
Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present the short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer. One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person…
exceedingly good one is called the “Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton. With the amphitheater and punishment or virtue's reward a lover of the princess was punished to doors, either to pick the Tiger or Lady, it was unknown. In the “Lady or the Tiger?” he has a very good way of describing situations. The plot, he uses is a distinctive way of writing. Using the reader to decide the end of the story is a great way to bring the reader in, and to get them thinking about it. Frank Richard Stockton has supremely…
live with difficult choices they have made. In the short story, “The Lady or the Tiger” Frank Stockton tells the story of how jealousy and difficult choices lead a princess to condemn her lover to a terrible death. Due to the princess’s barbaric nature and fervid jealousy of the maiden, she directs her lover to the door that contains the tiger. First of all, the princess’s jealousy surfaces when the princess has seen the lady throwing glances at her lover, and her lover returned those glances (6)…
Who would you choose, The Lady or the Tiger? In Frank Stockton’s short story, The Lady or the Tiger, the author leaves the ending in a very precarious way. The author, Frank, leaves the story ending up to the reader. The princess should have the most sympathy in this short story. She is the daughter of a barbaric king who has made his own justice system that he feels is fair. The king puts the accused into an arena where they decide their fate. The princess has to make a brutal decision of seeing…
All actions have consequences. In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” written by Frank R. Stockton, the princess is left with the decision to either feed her lover to a tiger or watch her lover be happily married to another beautiful woman. The reader is led to believe that the princess persuaded her lover to pick the door with the tiger behind it. The princess had concluded that the consequence of killing her lover was better than having to deal with the jealousy of watching him live happily with…