"Lady or the Tiger" Evaluation
“The Lady or the Tiger” Evaluation In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” human nature is evaluated. It shows how far the princess will go when she is motivated by love and anger. Would she really be willing to kill her lover by sending him to open the door with the tiger or would she send him to love someone else at the door with the lady? Many such questions are considered in the story. I myself believe that she sent him to his death at the door of the tiger. She and her father were, after all, semi-barbaric. It was stated in the story that she quite enjoyed attending the trials in the amphitheater. It says she would not have gone had her nature not made her incredibly interested in what took place in the amphitheater. I also read in the story that the princess spent much of her time, day and night, contemplating the decision she knew she would have to make. It claims she spent much time despairing over the idea of her lover being killed by the tiger. However, it states that she spent more of her time thinking of him opening the other door, finding the lady on the other side. In the story, the princess thought that the lady was in love with the princess’s own lover. She hated the lady. The princess also worried her lover loved the lady. I believe she would rather send him to his death than have him marry the girl she hated. She then believes they could meet again when dead. The princess knew she had lost her lover. While she was alive, that is. She was enraged to think of someone else having him. As the story asks, “She had lost him, but who should have him?” She wanted no one but herself to have him. Many people wondered if the princess would be in eternal torment when she died. After all, she had sent her lover to his death. I believe the two would both be in the same place when dead, as according to the story. It only spoke of semi-barbaric futurity, one place where they could be together. I also do not believe that