'Gender Stereotypes In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'

This time the subject that was being accused was his lover. The young boy had two doors to choose from, behind one awaited a young beautiful maiden that he would be set to marry if that were to be his fate, however behind another door was a hungry tiger that he would suffer at the claws of if he were to pick it. The king had arranged this entire sick and twisted affair, a quote from the short story states that “It mattered not that he already possesses a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon another object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of retribution and reward”. The princess knew this which in turn unsettled her for she loved him with an ardor that had enough barbarism to make to extremely warm and strong. The fact that her personality was depicted as being semi barbaric and that her love for him had barbarism in it is a hint that the princess would subject her lover to death than see him with another woman.

All in all, the tiger will emerge from the door on the right because like most women, this princess will do almost anything for her own happiness and to keep the one she loves. That is why she chooses death of her lover, the accused man, over giving the man a life happy with a lovely damsel. She assumes that if he shall die of being eaten, they will meet once again happy in love. He will love her and only her, and not be married or be in love with another woman. The princess’s mission is accomplished.

There are many reasons why the princess will make her lover go to the door with the tiger and in this story I'm going to give you those reasons. I'm only going to state three reasons why she would send him to the door with the tiger.

Was the tiger going to come or the absolutely gorgeous lady everyone had been talking about? So many questions raced through the lover 's mind as the door opened. His fate had rested within the princess, and he trusted her with all his heart. He loved her so much, and not being with the princess pained more than he could ever demonstrate.

‘The Lady or the Tiger?’ The choice had to be made because one so innocent was guilty of falling in love with a princess, causing the princess to fall for him too. This union of a worthless commoner and a semi- barbaric princess was unacceptable for the princess’s even more barbaric father, the king, as ‘never before had a subject dared to love the daughter of a king’. (pg. 34) The decision was made and the date was set, the youthful soul was sent into the arena and fate decided the rest. If he had died or if he had lived, he was lost to the princess forever. The princess chose to kill her lover and save herself the misery of having to see him share a life with another. That day in the arena, the guilty opened the tiger’s door.

“The Lady, or The Tiger” by Mr. Frank R. Stockton has compelled readers for as long as time. This story ends with all wondering, so which is it, the delicate and fair young lady or the savage, fierce, wild-eyed tiger standing behind the door. This makes us ponder whether human heart chooses love or jealously. Within this essay, there will be proof that it is the stunning young woman behind the door. Although there is evidence proving that it is the tiger, in a sense there is more evidence stating that the elegant and barbaric princess allowed her real lover to continue living. To begin let us start with the small dwindling points that the tiger, lye behind the door.

I believe the princess pointed her man in the direction of the tiger because she was jealous and would rather have him killed then see him love another women. “But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door I don't think she could see him with another women when he's the love of her life, I think when you love someone you couldn't see yours self with someone else you wanna be with that person that you love the most.

In the story “The Lady or The Tiger” a princess is forced to watch her lover choose his destiny. The king is described as semi-barbaric because he shows compassion towards the accused. He allows them to choose their own fate by letting them pick a door, one with a hungry tiger and the other which contains a beautiful woman who he would marry on the spot. The man in the story finds himself in this situation after the king discovered he was having a love affair with his daughter. At the end of the story the princess is torn and she cannot decide if she should guide the man to life or watch him die.

One of the main characters in “The Lady or The Tiger” by Frank Stockhorn, was the semi-barbaric princess. From beginning, the unnamed princess had ambiguity written all over her, and it was generously displayed near the end of the story. The end started with the young man asking the princess in a secretive manner about who was behind each door, either the lady who he would get married too, or the tiger, by which who would eat him, including which door he should choose. The princess points to the right and the prince believes his lover without hesitation. He opens the right and the story is cut off there , leaving the reader with the question, who was behind the door? At that moment, we learn about the princess’s dilemma ; “She had lost him,

What these people fail to realize is that the princess is described as semi-barbaric, meaning she has a wild and untamed personality. On the other hand, her choice of the tiger is clear because the princess had seen, “or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived and even returned” (302). The princess’s immense jealousy and fear of her sweetheart leaving her possesses her to see her lover cheating. This is due to the princess’s nature which does not allow her to think of a less extreme scenario. The princess admits, “how much oftener had she seen him at the other door!

This suggests that the princess would send her lover to the door concealing the tiger because she would rather he die than see him with the woman behind the door. She also thinks that by sending her lover to the tiger’s door, at least they would have a chance to be together in the afterlife in “semi-barbaric futurity” instead of never being together (241). Although my opposers may argue that out of true love the princess would have sent her lover to the door concealing the woman, I believe that she hated the woman more. I know this to be true because on page 239 the author states “she [the princess] hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door.” Her immense hatred for the woman is due to her jealousy that the woman has a chance to be happily wed to her lover, while she, the princess, watches helplessly from her seat in the in the stadium.

In the story, “The Lady or the Tiger”, by Frank Stockton, a princess is forced to determine the fate of her soulmate by sending him to death by ravenous tiger, rather than letting him be wed to another. In this relentless battle between love and jealousy, the author says, ¨…and, with all of the intensity of the savage blood passed down to her through her long lines of completely barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door.¨ This quote clearly conveys the king’s daughter of having an extreme antipathy for the woman. This is why she would not choose her. The passage also talks about the nights leading up to the trial; ¨But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her nightmarish

"Lady of the Tiger" Paragraph Response The fate of a young lover is left in question at the end of Frank Stockton's short story, "The Lady and the Tiger. " Stockton asks his readers to determine to which door the princess motions--the door concealing the tiger or the door concealing the beautiful maiden. However, a close examination of the princess' character clearly reveals the answer. Considering that the princess is cynical and jealous, it is clear that she sends her lover into the claws of the tiger.

In the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, a semi-barbaric king in archaic times, sentences his daughter’s lover to trial after finding out about their affair. The king’s twisted form of trial is advertised in the arena where the condemned chooses between two doors and what awaits is either marriage to a maiden or death to a tiger. The princess must decide whether she’d lead her lover to death by tiger or to marriage with a woman whom she despises. While the story ends with Stockton asking the reader which came out the door the Lady or the Tiger, there are subtle clues that leads to the notion that the Tiger came out. Stockton subtly leads readers to the conclusion that the Tiger came out the door because the princess is

would have had an alternate ending. While the young man was reaching his hand to open the right door, he changed his mind. As his heart was tightened with the strong love of the princess, he thought that dying by the tiger would rather be better than betray his lover. So, he went right to the left door and opened it. A few minutes after, a beautiful, lovely lady came out. Then the young man knew that he was betrayed by his lover, the