The Lady Or The Tiger SUMMARY In a very olden time, there was a half-barbaric king who built an arena in which his offenders would face their fate. In the arena, which people called the arena of the king, the offenders had two doors to choose, behind one waited a hungry tiger which could tear them apart into pieces, and behind the other waited a lady whom the king chose particularly for them. If they chose the lady, they would be assumed innocent, but if they chose the tiger then they would be deemed guilty. The barbaric king, when he found out that his beloved daughter had a lover with lower status, became furious since he saw this love affair as a disgrace to himself and decided to put him in the area where the others had been judged
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The young man turned to the princess, expecting her to know what was waiting for him. With a fast and direct move, she pointed the right door which, he opened directly. The princess loved the young man, and she could not bear to see him getting torn apart by a tiger, but she was also a hot-blooded woman who was filled with jealousy. Could she bear to see his happiness with the sight of the lady in front of him? So the lady of the tiger? The story doesn't tell the rest of his fate...
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"The Lady or The Tiger?" is a short story written by Frank R. Stockton for publication in the magazine The Century in 1882.
Background Information About The Author Frank R. Stockton was an American writer who lived between 1834 and 1902. He wrote several anthologies, novels, short stories and series in his life time. He was writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. He avoided using the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead he used clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and describing his characters' adventures in a charming way. The Lady or Tiger is a fairy-tale mode.
The young man turned to the princess, expecting her to know what was waiting for him. With a fast and direct move, she pointed the right door which, he opened directly. The princess loved the young man, and she could not bear to see him getting torn apart by a tiger, but she was also a hot-blooded woman who was filled with jealousy. Could she bear to see his happiness with the sight of the lady in front of him? So the lady of the tiger? The story doesn't tell the rest of his fate...
The Structure
"The Lady or The Tiger?" is a short story written by Frank R. Stockton for publication in the magazine The Century in 1882.
Background Information About The Author Frank R. Stockton was an American writer who lived between 1834 and 1902. He wrote several anthologies, novels, short stories and series in his life time. He was writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. He avoided using the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead he used clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and describing his characters' adventures in a charming way. The Lady or Tiger is a fairy-tale mode.