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Lady The Tiger

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“Lady or the Tiger” “She raised her hand, and made a slight, quick movement to the right.” The question illustrated here is to which door did she point her lover, tiger, or lady. This quote was derived from the short story “The Lady or the Tiger,” this story portrays a King who creates an event called the kings arena. The arena is where those accused of crimes are put, they walk into the arena in front of an enormous crowd and choose one of the two doors in front of them. One contains a tiger that will kill them, the other a fair maiden who they will be immediately married to. In the story the daughter of the king has an affair with a peasant boy and the king discovers it. The king puts the boy in the arena to choose his fate. When the young man bows to the king from the center of the arena on his trial day he realizes that the princess knows which door the …show more content…

The writer’s description entitles that the princess may prefer to have the boy die than be married to anyone but her. This brings in the factor of jealousy, In my opinion the princesses appears to have too much hatred for the girl and will make her lover choose the door with the tiger. She may also believe that once he is dead they could meet again in the afterlife, if this is the case then the decision is clear. She would have chosen to send her lover to the lion. The decision to send the boy to the lion would allow her to never have to worry about seeing him again, this would hopefully allow her to move on without being scared to go into public. To me it seems that she would prefer to not have to deal with the issue of having him alive but in another's arms, making it very easy for her to forget about this troublesome time. This is not the only reason she would have chosen the tiger but I believe this is the biggest factor leading to her

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