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Who Is To Blame In 'The Lady Or The Tiger'?
After reading Frank R. Stockton's story, "The Lady or the Tiger", I found that the princess was in dismay caught between the turmoil of love and jealousy. She had an intimate love for the boyfriend, but her semi barbaric mind set along with her jealous nature endlessly swayed and clouded her mind. Her father king added fuel to the flame of her jealousy and aimed the punishment towards her, not so much at her lover. This was evident in the passage of the story that exclaimed, "...she knew who the lady was. 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 proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far about him, and the princess hated her." Regardless of what decision she made, she would meet the same punishment of losing her lover. However, it is my belief that providing the door selection with the fair maiden behind it may still give the couple hope an d a chance to be with each other in the near future. …show more content…

The kind forced the accused to marry the maiden regardless of the accused woes or excuses not to be married as written in the story, "it mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family or that his affection might be engaged upon an object of his own selection." Fortunately there was no mention within the story that divorce was illegal, nor were there any limitations on how to improve one's station or stature. Nowhere in the story did it stet that a princess could be involved in a marriage with multiple wives; it just alluded that the suitor had to be of similar stature. Thus, there is a chance that the lover could potentially marry the princess and later divorce the fair maiden once statue has been

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