Lady Or The Tiger

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Have you ever felt like a choice you have to make is going to determine the rest of your life… or death? That is what the young man in, “The Lady or the Tiger”, by Frank R. Stockton, faced. He chose from two doors, one with a lady behind it, and one with a tiger. He did not know which door was which, so the decision he was about to make determined his future. His lover, the princess, signals which door he should choose because she knew what was behind each door. The question is, did she signal him to the door with the lovely lady which he would immediately marry? Or the door with the treacherous tiger that would rip him up into pieces? In the short story, we are not given an answer of which door he chose but, there are many reasons why I believe that the tiger was the fate of the young man who loved the princess. …show more content…

This is proven when the author states that, “the semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.” This proves my point because the king, her father, is barbaric and oftentimes, children inherit traits from their parents. To put it differently, the king is considered barbaric because he enjoys watching innocent people get hurt and tortured for no reason. If his daughter, the princess, is similar to him, it is possible that she would enjoy watching innocent people, like her lover, getting tortured as

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