Analysis: "The Lady or the Tiger?"
The "The Lady or the Tiger?" is one of the fascinating tales from the late 19th century. Francis Richard Stockton authored the story published in 1882. The tale belongs to the short story genre. The narrative describes the aspect of crime and punishment under the reign of "a semi-barbaric king" (Stockton 1). The fairy tale describes the hilarious fantasies that the young perpetrators of crime went through at the king 's court. The main characters include the king, the princess, and the young criminals. This paper examines whether the princess could direct her lover toward either the tiger or the lady. We hypothesise that the main aim of the princess is to save the young man; therefore, he will find the lady …show more content…
As seen in the story, the King 's policy on criminal justice was that the accused person was instantly killed by the tiger if he opened the door behind where the tiger was and therefore presumed guilty. If the prisoner opened the door where the woman was, he was rewarded with marriage whether he liked it or not. (Stockton 2). From this scenario, we can see the desire of the King being to have the tiger devour a person he perceives as unworthy to love his daughter. On the other hand, we can see a princess with similar characters as those of the tiger, castigated for her profound love to the young lad, who would go at all cost to see that the lady did not have her man. The princess cognizant of the fact that no matter the outcomes of the Arena Trial, she would not have her man back she cannot live to see someone else have him. They would rather lose him …show more content…
One of the scenarios is the assumption that the princess loves him so much that she would not want to harm him. Given her strong love for him, the young lover will receive a clue from her about the door that has a lady. On the other hand, we assume that princess will want the young man to suffer because she does not want the other woman to marry him. Nonetheless, our assessment of the two scenarios strongly suggests that the princess will not harm the young man. This observation is based on the inference that the princess 's availability at the arena is meant to save the young man 's life by directing him to open the door to the room with the lady. Otherwise, the princess could just have stayed away from the
The "The Lady or the Tiger?" is one of the fascinating tales from the late 19th century. Francis Richard Stockton authored the story published in 1882. The tale belongs to the short story genre. The narrative describes the aspect of crime and punishment under the reign of "a semi-barbaric king" (Stockton 1). The fairy tale describes the hilarious fantasies that the young perpetrators of crime went through at the king 's court. The main characters include the king, the princess, and the young criminals. This paper examines whether the princess could direct her lover toward either the tiger or the lady. We hypothesise that the main aim of the princess is to save the young man; therefore, he will find the lady …show more content…
As seen in the story, the King 's policy on criminal justice was that the accused person was instantly killed by the tiger if he opened the door behind where the tiger was and therefore presumed guilty. If the prisoner opened the door where the woman was, he was rewarded with marriage whether he liked it or not. (Stockton 2). From this scenario, we can see the desire of the King being to have the tiger devour a person he perceives as unworthy to love his daughter. On the other hand, we can see a princess with similar characters as those of the tiger, castigated for her profound love to the young lad, who would go at all cost to see that the lady did not have her man. The princess cognizant of the fact that no matter the outcomes of the Arena Trial, she would not have her man back she cannot live to see someone else have him. They would rather lose him …show more content…
One of the scenarios is the assumption that the princess loves him so much that she would not want to harm him. Given her strong love for him, the young lover will receive a clue from her about the door that has a lady. On the other hand, we assume that princess will want the young man to suffer because she does not want the other woman to marry him. Nonetheless, our assessment of the two scenarios strongly suggests that the princess will not harm the young man. This observation is based on the inference that the princess 's availability at the arena is meant to save the young man 's life by directing him to open the door to the room with the lady. Otherwise, the princess could just have stayed away from the