The Lady Or The Tiger Essay

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The Lady, or the Tiger? - My Answer Is it better to let your love live their life with someone instead of you, or let them have death if they can have no one but you? The princess in The Lady, or the Tiger? is faced with this problem, spending nights in agony over the decision with no positive result. She must choose whether her jealousy of the maiden to marry her lover or her love itself will conquer. Through evidence found in the story, I have concluded that the princess had ultimately decided that the hatred for the woman waiting behind the identical door to the tiger’s outweighed the life of her lover. In the text it states, “But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door”, as well as “Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation” (Stockton 163). The first quote refers to her fearing him opening the door with the lady on the other side much more than the tiger. This supports my theory because the conclusion she made on which door to direct her lover was picked ahead of time, during long and painful nights thinking of the sacrifice she must make. During these nights, the text provides …show more content…

Not only is the burning detestation of the girl expressed through this sentence, but instead of the usually semi-barbaric adjective placed upon the princess and the king, it is said she has the full and complete barbaric intensity of hate towards the damsel. This hatred was so extreme, it would persuade the princess that the only option is to have her lover die, rather then let him fall into the arms of the woman she greatly

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