Lady or Tiger

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The Lady or The Tiger ? Love can be unpredictable; it can either lead you to the peak of happiness or take you deepest despair. The story of The Lady or The Tiger by Frank Stockton shares the possibility of these both sides of love. The Lady or The Tiger is a story involves a semi -barbaric King; who enjoyed using his power and authority to turn his fantasies in to a reality. As a part of his Justice system, which was one such fantasy of his; he allowed the accused to choose one door from the two mystery doors built in King’s arena. One with a beautiful lady to marry as a reward and the other held the dangerous Tiger to punish the accused for his crime or guilt. The Story leads to an interesting plot when The King learn about the love affair between his daughter; a beautiful Princess and one of King’s Courtier. The angry king announces a trial of the lover in the Kings arena where a princess who has mastered the secret about what lays behind each mystery doors guides her lover to receive his fate. The story does not reveal what came out of the Right door. This essay investigates whether the Princess directs the lover to The Lady or The Tiger and I interpret that when the lover opened the door, he must have found The Lady and not The Tiger. The author Frank Stockton quoted about princess admiration as “This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom, and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong” ( p. 3 )It indicates how passionately she loved the young man and her loyalty towards her lover. The princess was in the dilemma to attend the trial and why she ended up attending it. The Princess had loved the young man with intense passion, emotion and dedication. It would have been difficult for the Princess to see her lover either
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