Two choices. One decision. All that can determine the fate of one. These ponderous choices can either stop the society from exterminating a bond that exists between two lovers, or sacrifice the one thing a lover cherishes the most to eradicate the jealousy that exists deep within them. In “The Lady or The Tiger” written by Frank Stockton, the princess has to make the decision. Her love, a young courtier, is sent to the king’s trial for having a relationship with the princess in which he must choose between two doors. The princess managed to decipher the secrets behind each door. She holds the fate of a man in which she truly loves. She can either allow him to be devoured by a malevolent beast, which would leave the crowd completely flabbergasted. …show more content…
Or, she can allow her beau to be enthralled in the beauty of an alluring maiden and live with her for the rest of his life, whether he agrees or not. The princess mulled over which door to lead her lover to for many days. Which is the most precise decision? The princess must have indicated him to go to the door with the tiger because she didn’t want to live the rest of her life being in a state of jealousy, seeing her love show affection towards the maiden angered her, and letting him marry someone she truly resents wasn’t something she insisted on seeing. The door on the right was the path the princess took to forestall the sight of her love being with another woman.
What if the path the princess took was the door on the left? If the princess chose the door on the left, nobody would be able to envision the misery she would feel of seeing her love be with another matron. Especially since the maiden is someone she truly loathes. Even as the princess described the maiden as “one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court” (Stockton), it was easy to encounter her feelings of jealousy and enmity towards the maiden, fearing that she will pilfer the heart of her beau. As William Shakespeare once said: “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” (Shakespeare) The quote states that jealousy is so feared to be encountered, that it reveals itself about its jealousy, without realizing that it revealed itself. So, the fact that the princess's jealousy was so feared to be encountered by her lover, she revealed her hate and jealousy towards the maiden by preventing her from marrying her …show more content…
lover. Preventing the maiden to marry her beau was no ordinary task, because it resulted in the death of the courtier. But seeing the maiden and the princess’s boyfriend talk and glance at each other riled up the princess, and added another dire situation to surmount. She had described the event as “this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived, and even returned.” (Stockton). These looks traded by one and another didn’t stop there, as the princess expressed how: “Now and then she had seen them talking together;[...], but much can be said in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics, but how could she know that?” (Stockton). Deep down, she felt the pain of being cheated upon and an air of melancholy would suddenly surround her. She couldn’t live her whole life being in a state of jealousy that the maiden was able to capture the heart of her boyfriend. The feeling that someone was better than her caused the princess to switch from the unselfish girlfriend who cared about the feelings and life of the person she loved, to a narcissistic person who only looks to see if it benefits herself. This sudden change made the princess realize the effect of his death compared to the effect of the jealousy that will stick with her life long.
Killing someone will only stick with her for a couple of weeks, but the jealousy of another will stick with her life long. Even if the death of the person causes many days of grief and pain in a room that was once lit by love, but now the bleak room is filled with pain and darkness. She could endure that pain. But how would she be able to endure the pain of seeing her beau walking off in a jovial mood with another woman at his side? The princess expressed her pain by stating her soul “burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph.” (Stockton) This pain can lead people to do inhumane things such as suiciding or trying to take revenge. These inhumane factors already started to appear as she “had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair” (Stockton) at the sight of her love confronting the maiden. The small glimpses of pain she felt before the marriage will be nothing compared to the gargantuan amount of agony she will feel after the marriage. Pain is a feeling that is supported by jealousy. Jealousy is a feeling that is supported by
hate. Hate overcomes love. Whenever the princess felt hate towards the maiden, that feeling was far greater than the feeling of love she had for him. That is why the princess lead him to the door with the tiger because living her whole life with jealousy is something she couldn’t endure, and the hate towards the maiden for sparking an affection in the courtier’s heart boiled her, making her choose the tiger. People around the world experience the same form of hate, maybe in a lesser volume, or maybe in a greater volume. People’s feeling of hate far overcomes any other emotion that exists in this world. This may cause the people around to be in great danger. Hate is something that people must be able to decode and understand. This will lead to the realization that hate is not hate. So, what does hate mean?
What would you do if someone you loved was being tried and they either lost their life or had to live with someone else? This is the choice that a young princess was faced with, but what did she choose? In “The Lady Or The Tiger,” the princess gave into her own greed and would rather see her lover die, than see him happy with someone else. She would rather end his life shorter for her own good instead of having his best interest at heart.
... excited about what she will finally be able to do with her life. She actually understood that she will finally be able to live for herself, but she finds out he is not dead her grief comes back as is what kills her. How sad can that be for these women to feel that they have no other option out of their marriage.
Although, the human heart was meant to deal with that much pain. joy and disappointment in one day, never mind one hour. To her sister Josephine, it would appear that she died of joy when she saw her spouse was not. dead. Then the snares are dead.
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! What the Prince is saying is that, see what dreadful punishment has been laid upon your hatred. Heaven finds a reason to kill your joys with their love!" There are many forces in the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet that are keeping the two young, passionate lovers apart, all emanating from one main reason. In this essay I will discuss these as well as how love, in the end, may have been the cause that led to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their strong attraction to each other, which some call fate, determines where their forbidden love will take them.
How is the pain of love shown through the character Romeo and within the poems “To His Coy Mistress”, “Sonnet 43” and “Farmer’s Bride”?
In "the story of an hour" Chopin discuss how getting married can lead you to live a life of anguish. In the beginning of the short story Mrs. Mallard revives terrible news that her husband has been recently killed, she "Wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment." This intense reaction is how society would expect her to act if your husband dies. Mrs. Mallard then goes into her bedroom to grieve alone: "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of the trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life." Seeing the open square makes her crave freedom, something she doesn't remembering having. The new spring life will eventually represent her new-found freedom and happiness. As she stares outside the window she thinks, but "It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought." She is critically thinking of what will come and what has just happened, she has not ever has to think for herself, her husband always did that for her. This is the first time her feelings start to stir, she tries to process the information more to figure out what they mean.
Heartbreak— the foreboding word that many people fear. Whether it is a small whisper of disappointment or the more common, excruciating ordeal associated with a lost or ‘stolen’ love; like many situations, every individual has a different coping mechanism. Yes, the conventional indulging of twenty-something ice cream buckets does apply. However, in the midst or aftermath of a heartbreak, an individual’s pain and sorrow often manifest into a series of alternative emotions such as anger, but more specifically— jealousy. Likewise, in Rupert Brooke’s 'Jealousy' and the excerpt from William Shakespeare’s Othello (III.iii.255-275), both of the speakers’ expression of betrayal by their ex-lovers is built upon a foundation of jealousy. Brooke’s poem
In conclusion, the irony is that their love, and death, was able to do what their lives could not, to end the feuding between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. It is with this thought that I shall examine “the thin line between love and hate” which is evidently shown on many occasions, such as when Romeo uses his love for Juliet to remove his hate for Tybalt “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage” and also the play itself is evident of this, Romeo and Juliet’s love was so strong for each other, that they were able to overcome hate and also the hate that others possessed towards each other.
It was not then I killed her, but much earlier. Just as they are all now killing, all, all.'” He does not see his killing blow as the murder, only as the final outcome of the path they were on from the beginning. It was inevitable. The passion which had prompted them to marry could not be maintained.
It is this selfishness that makes it hard for the reader to be empathetic towards her later in the play, as it is evident in this scene that her hardships were brought on by herself. If she hadn’t insisted on the murder, she would not be driven insane by guilt, which would eventually lead to her death.... ... middle of paper ... ... As we saw, it was plaguing her dreams, and taking a heavy toll on her mental health.
What would you do if your love faces the most difficult choice that makes your life change? Would you sacrifice your love for your lover who will marry other people to escape the death, or would you just let him die because of your jealousy? In the myth “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank R. Stockton tells the story about the feudal dynasty with a contradictory justice system based on the king’s decision. The king is compassionate and patriotic; however, there is another side of him who has opposite behavior, which is barbarous to whom dare to disobey his order. The king expected that his daughter, the pretty princess will marry an aristocratic; nonetheless, he found out that the princess is in love with a commoner. The king was very angry, so he
...her husband's death, 'she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment'; (Chopin 12). But, her grief was short lived. She soon was overcome with the joy that her husband would no longer control her. 'Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of day that would be her own'; (Chopin 13). However, when she realized that her husband was not really dead, she was overcome by grief again. The resulting grief because her husband was not dead was so intense that it killed her.
... off.”(“Love’s Bond”, Robert Nozick) If that is true when loving someone, Romeo evidently made the wrong decision to kill Tybalt. By fulfilling this revenge, Romeo not only caused Juliet to be upset, but he also placed a burden on himself: an imprudent decision. After analyzing Romeo’s careless approach to risking to lose Juliet’s love, it becomes clear that Romeo’s love for Juliet is not a real romantic love, but it is a hormone-driven, passionate, hasty love that is portrayed as ruinous and preposterous by Shakespeare through Romeo’s actions.
Does jealousy come from the act of love or is jealousy done in the act of love? While the envy does not have the same affect in “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” and “Othello”, both by Shakespeare, the reaction of the individuals when love and envy meet is a point spoken in the literary works. Shakespeare utilizes poetic images drawn from the ideas of time or one’s past, social status, and the nature of each of the works. “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” is most successful in conveying the unit’s subject of love and courtship. Sonnet twenty-nine has a transition from a negative to positive tone that contradicts the notion of envy in love with the utilization of various poetic images.
In the story the lady or the tiger by frank r stockon .he tells a story about love and jealousy which will triumph in the story he tills about a barbaric and good king he judged all of his criminals in the kings arena witch they had a choice between life or death there were two doors one was a tiger and the other was a woman of the most beautiful in the land but the doors that had the lady and the one of the tiger were always differ they changed them sometimes not sometimes they would .there was a bot who fell in love with the princes the daughter of the king and she loved him do dearly and they kipped this love for a while but the king found out and put him in his arena to let it decide the boys fate either way the king thought would get