Have you ever had to make an important decision for someone else? Most people do not have to make any life or death decisions for other people. Many of the choices that have to be decided are usually which shirt to wear or which movie to watch. Well in the Middle Ages if a man was accused of a crime or wrongdoing he would have to choose a door in an arena. One of those doors had a hungry tiger that would devour the man ;however, the other door had a lovely fair maiden he would be instantly married to. Just that happened in the story "The Lady or the Tiger" written by Frank R. Stockton. There was a king who had a daughter and he loved her very much! A peasant fell in love with the princess and they secretly had a relationship. The king found
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The princess gave a woman gold to tell her which door lay the hungry tiger and which of the lady. Not just that either she even found out who the fair maiden was and quite frankly she hated the woman. "Often she seen or imagined that she had seen this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived and even returned." She had sometimes seen them talking just briefly, but a lot can be said in a brief moment. This shows that she does not like the young lady and has seen her flirting with her lover. “With all the intensity she hated the woman that stood behind the door blushing.” She really hates the lady that her lover could marry unless he dies! Hatred is just one of the many reasons she sent him to his death, another one is her jealousy. The princess sent her lover to the tiger’s door because of her jealousy. She is extremely jealous and does not want her lover to be with anyone else. “She had lost him but who should have him?” She had to decide whether to save his life and he would get married, or to get devoured by a tiger. “Would it not be better for him to die at once and wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity.” She would rather him die than be with another. The princess is really jealous and she had the power to lead him to death. “She gnashed her teeth and torn her hair
The princess gave a woman gold to tell her which door lay the hungry tiger and which of the lady. Not just that either she even found out who the fair maiden was and quite frankly she hated the woman. "Often she seen or imagined that she had seen this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived and even returned." She had sometimes seen them talking just briefly, but a lot can be said in a brief moment. This shows that she does not like the young lady and has seen her flirting with her lover. “With all the intensity she hated the woman that stood behind the door blushing.” She really hates the lady that her lover could marry unless he dies! Hatred is just one of the many reasons she sent him to his death, another one is her jealousy. The princess sent her lover to the tiger’s door because of her jealousy. She is extremely jealous and does not want her lover to be with anyone else. “She had lost him but who should have him?” She had to decide whether to save his life and he would get married, or to get devoured by a tiger. “Would it not be better for him to die at once and wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity.” She would rather him die than be with another. The princess is really jealous and she had the power to lead him to death. “She gnashed her teeth and torn her hair