“The Lady, or The Tiger?” written by Frank R. Stockton tells a story of a semi-barbaric king that uses a rare method of justice to determine a person innocence or guilt. In the king's arena, there's two (2) doors from which the accused allowed to choose, behind one there is a violent tiger that would tear him to pieces and the other one with a lady behind it to whom the accused will be married on the spot. The daughter of the king who he dearly adores secretly fall in love with a courtier. The affair happily goes one for a short period of time until the king found out and condemned the young man to trial to choose his fate. The princess transcends his father power uncovered which door has the lady and which door is the tiger. Although, she
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First, it explains the stimulation of unlikeness the princess has toward the maiden when she had seen her talking, or imagine her casting “glances of admiration” upon her lover, “and sometime she thought these glances were perceived, and even returned”. The author continues to add “the girl was lovely, but she had dared to raise her eyes to the loved one of the princess”. Moreover, he states “with all the intensity of the savage blood she hated the women who blushed and trembled behind that silent door”. The story also describes the princess overwhelming fear and pain of seeing the man she obsessively in love with marrying the same women that she hates. "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" this statement proves the thought of seeing him marry another woman is more terrifying than seeing him torn to pieces by the tiger. She would rather him dead than for her to be constantly reminded that he is happy with another woman that should have been her. Lastly, the insistence of the narrator on the princess barbaric nature is another indication that agrees that the tiger came out. Even when he explained the princess decision he states " think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of
First, it explains the stimulation of unlikeness the princess has toward the maiden when she had seen her talking, or imagine her casting “glances of admiration” upon her lover, “and sometime she thought these glances were perceived, and even returned”. The author continues to add “the girl was lovely, but she had dared to raise her eyes to the loved one of the princess”. Moreover, he states “with all the intensity of the savage blood she hated the women who blushed and trembled behind that silent door”. The story also describes the princess overwhelming fear and pain of seeing the man she obsessively in love with marrying the same women that she hates. "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" this statement proves the thought of seeing him marry another woman is more terrifying than seeing him torn to pieces by the tiger. She would rather him dead than for her to be constantly reminded that he is happy with another woman that should have been her. Lastly, the insistence of the narrator on the princess barbaric nature is another indication that agrees that the tiger came out. Even when he explained the princess decision he states " think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of