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Barbaric Futurious Love
Even though the princess is in love with her lover, she knows that she would not be able to live with the fact that her man is with her enemy, and therefore, chooses the tiger. Letting out her barbaric and jealous side is not hard because of her barbaric family history, and has him killed although she knows the result of this action means never being with him ever again. The Princess wonders if it would “...not have been better for him to die at once, and wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity.”(Strokton 14) The princess would rather “...gnashed her teeth and torn her hair…”(Strokon) then to see her lover with the enemy.
Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it. In less than a

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