Lady Or The Tiger

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Have you ever read a story, in where, it never explicitly answers a question? That is the case in the short story “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton. In the short story, the author introduces us to a semi-barbaric king who has a system of both entertainment and “justice” (crime). The way the system works is, the criminal chooses between two doors. In one doors lies a tiger and in the other a fair maiden, waiting to be wed to the criminal in her “social class”. The thing is, the king has a daughter, and she happened to fall in love with a handsome young man in a lower social class. This, in fact, was a crime to the king. It broke his rules. Of course, this would lead the king to send the princess’s lover to the amphitheater (where