Analysis Of Jealousy In The Lady Or The Tiger, By Frank R. Stockton

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The man staring at the door, is yearning to be in the princesses arms once again. He knows he will either die in front of her or he will be forced to love another, but either way he will never have her. He hated the king and what he was making him do. In the text “The Lady or The Tiger” written by Frank R. Stockton, the story shows how one longs for something they cannot have. The meaning of the story is to show if love is more powerful than jealousy. The princess feels if she cannot have him then no one can. When the man opened the door he was not shocked to find a beautiful women standing there. He thought that his true love had wanted him to be happy and showed him to the lady, but he realized that it wasn’t the lady planned to be in the cage. He spun around to see the princess completely shocked. He had a realization that consumed him, the princess wanted him to die all along. She had pointed him to the tiger cage in hopes that he would never have to love anyone that wasn’t her. He now knew that the princess really did have “barbarism in her nature”. …show more content…

She was just like her father. She was barbaric and jealous of the lady. The thought of the princess wanting him dead made him angry and confused. He wondered why there were two ladies, he wondered who put them there, and he wondered if it was the king who put the ladies there. Indeed, it was the king who put two ladies in the cages. He knew that the love his daughter had for the man was something he hadn’t seen before. The king wanted his daughter to love him so he couldn’t bare seeing her heart break, if the man chose the tiger. The king loved his daughter, “above all humanity.” The love he had for his daughter made him put two women in the cage and he was confused to see his daughter shocked that the man chose the woman behind the door. He thought she would be

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