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    Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or The Tiger” and James Reaney’s “The Box-Social” have extremely different settings and themes, they have many similarities. Both these works of literature possess similar characters and elements of suspense and satire. The main characters in “The Lady or The Tiger” and “The Box-Social” are very alike in several ways. Their characteristics mirror each other and have similar effects on the story. The princess in “The Lady or The Tiger” is a beautiful, semi-barbaric

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    person you loved to go marry another woman or get mauled by a tiger which would you choose. Would you let your kindness take over and send him to the door with the lady or would you let your Semi-Barbaric and jealousy side kick in and send him to the tiger? She does have mixed feelings about what she should do but in the end she made her final decision without hesitation, so the question is which door did she send him to the Lady or the tiger. In Paragraph 21 she describes how she felt when she imagined

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    In the story ‘The Lady or the Tiger’, there is a dilemma between love and jealousy. It is assumed that jealousy had gotten the best of the Princess in this story leading her to choose the door with the ferocious tiger behind it. Several times throughout the story, it is made obvious that the Princess hated the maiden that was chosen to be the lady, “ as her soul burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet the woman with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye or triumph. This quote really emphasises

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    The Lady? The tiger? Who came out you may be wondering? Was it the beautiful maiden or the blood thirsty tiger. In the short story “The lady or the tiger” by Frank Stockton, a man’s fate was tested. The princess doesn't want her lover to be with the woman that she hates. This is why I believe it was the tiger that came out. “Often she had seen or imagined that she had seen this fair creature throwing glances or admiration upon her lover.” This is one of the main reasons I think it was the tiger

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    princess indicate the door that concealed the lady or the tiger? If she chose the lady, will she be able to withstand and bear the suffering every time she sees her lover and the lady together? Will she be able to bear the pain of losing her beloved to a lady she hated as she had pictured how lovely the both of them would be? Her choice of electing the lady would always be a constant reminder that would torture her; however, if the princess selected the tiger, it would cause her less pain and she would

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    person would do and think about. When coming down to the roots of jealousy, it can boil down to a more terrible situation than that of good ones. Such as in “The Lady or the Tiger”, all of the decision making can also demonstrate the realism of human jealousy. Starting out with talking about jealousy in such stories as “The Lady or the Tiger”, once analyzed what can be thought out is the fact that there are complete signs of jealousy and envy in the story. Towards the end of the story, it is told that

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    and incorruptible chance.¨ This quote describes where most of the short story, ¨The Lady, or the Tiger,¨ took place. In the short story a king uses his power and a deadly arena to scare his subjects, and because of this the king's daughter has a love affair without her father's consent. The young man is sent to the amphitheater and the readers are left on a cliff hanger. In the short story, ¨The Lady, or the Tiger?¨ by Frank R. Stockton, the literary style pulls the reader in by powerful word choice

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    Ladies, Tigers, and Arenas, Oh My! In the story "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton, the princess chooses the tiger. Firstly, as the narrator tells the audience, "It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her" (271). From this quotation one can draw that the princess hated the lady and was extremely jealous

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    The Lady or The Tiger by Frank. R. Stockton.Standing in the center of the ring is a young youth man known as the Princess’s lover and the King sent him to his arena.The spectators raise steely on all sides, directly in front of him awaits a lady or a tiger. Which will he choose the lady or the tiger? On page 3 they describe the princess as “hot-blooded semi barbaric princess her soul at white. This means the princess does not want to watch her lover die to the fangs of the tigers. The princess

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    The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton. In the time period this story was written, people were punished by having to go through a physical task. For instance, if someone committed a crime, that person would be given a trial. If someone lives through this physical task, that person is innocent. If that person dies, they are guilty and have committed the crime. In this story, a King’s daughter falls in love with a commoner. The boy is put on trial by the King, because the King does not approve of

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