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Lady Or The Tiger Poem Essay

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Tiger Bait Beyonce Knowles most recent album Lemonade, which is rumored to be about her husband’s infidelity, includes the track “Don’t Hurt Yourself” featuring Jack White. The enraged Beyonce sings, “I am not broken, I’m not crying, I’m not crying. You ain’t trying hard enough. You ain’t loving hard enough. You don’t love me deep enough. We’re not reaching peaks enough” (Knowles). In this song, Beyonce tells Jay-Z that she is strong and does not need him in her life if he is not going to treat her the way she wants to be treated. The same can be said for the princess in Frank Stockton’s “Lady or the Tiger.” In the story, the princess’s father disapproves of her love interest. To solve this problem, the king decides to let the man choose a

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