The Lady Or The Tiger, By Frank R. Stockton

Have you ever had to choose between a healthy salad, and a sweet snack? In medieval times someone who committed crime chose their fate. So, it was a hard choice. In Frank R. Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger?" There was a king who was semi-barbaric. He had a daughter. She was a beautiful princess. She loved a youth that was not of a high power. The young boy and the princess fell in love. Which was completely forbidden in the king's mind. The young peasant was sent to trial. Where he had to choose between the door of the tiger ,or the door of the princess. The princess sent her young lover to the door of the tiger because she was semi-barbaric, jealous, and sneaky. The princess sent her young lover to the tiger because she was semi-barbaric. She was imperious. She was the apple of her lover's eye. She felt like the most important person ever him. The book mentions "How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!" (365) She was semi-barbaric meaning almost completely uncultured, almost completely uncivilized. She didn't really socialize …show more content…
So, she snuck around to knowing which door held the tiger or the lady. She thought about her lover loving someone else. Which, she believed was unfair. The princess believed that the young lady liked her lover. The story says she saw "-this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover"(364). The princess thought to herself about the lady liking her lover . No one else knew the princess's thought. She kept them to herself. She believed that was sneaky. In addition to her not wanting her lover to die. "The cages of the kingdom were searched for the most savage and relentless beasts-"(363). She didn't want to lose her lover to a vicious tiger. The princess just did not like the fact of her lover, loving someone