Princess or the Tiger Review

What inference can you support due to evidence in the text

• The Princess lover had an affair with the lady within the door

• The princess is semi-barbaric like her father

• The kingdom thought the Kings trials were unfair and were not curious

• The King only cared about his daughters happiness, no matter what

Choose evidence from the text that makes you conclude that the Princess had a hard time deliberating where to send her lover

• As the youth advanced into the arena he turned, as the custom was, to bow to the king, but he did not think at all of that royal personage.

•   When her lover turned and looked at her, and his eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than any one in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her, he saw, by that power of quick perception which is given to those whose souls are one, that she knew behind which door crouched the tiger, and behind which stood the lady.

• How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!

• Tall, beautiful, fair, his appearance was greeted with a low hum of admiration and anxiety. Half the audience had not known so grand a youth had lived among them. No wonder the princess loved him! What a terrible thing for him to be there!

Show me in the text what makes you think that the princess lover was having an affair?

• Often had she 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.

• She knew in which of the two rooms, that lay behind those doors, stood the cage of the tiger, with its open front, and in which waited the lady

• It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her

• From the moment that the decree had gone forth that her lover should decide his fate in the king's arena, she had thought of nothing, night or day, but this great event and the various subjects connected with it.

What action did the princess do that provoked her father to put her lover on trial despite her being his dearest treasure?

• The Princess was forbidden to date anyone

• The princess lover was courtier, not a prince

• The King was jealous of their love and wanted his daughters attention to himself

• The princess hid her affair for months, the king being the only one in the dark

What were the princess motivations and were the conflicting?

• The Princess motivations were because she did not want to be embarrassed by her lover

• The princess motivations were to save her lover and made her deliberate day and night

• The Kings motivations were not wanting her daughter to be with that courtier

• The lady and the princess lover had been seen talking

How did the interaction between the princess lover and the lady contribute to the development of the plot?

• The princess lover fell in love with the lady and wanted to marry her

• The king became mad and inprisoned the princesses lover to be on trial

• The princess became skeptical of saving her lover since she did not want him to be happy with the lady and forget about her making her deliberate

• Gossip among the kingdom said they were having an affair, reaching the princess

What is the theme or central idea of "The lady or the tiger" By frank stockton? and why?

• Think things thoroughly, this shows how the princess thought day and night on which door to send her lover

• Revenge, the princess wants to get back at her lover for supposedly cheating on her

• The apple does not fall far from the tree, this shows how the princess was semi-barbaric like her father

• Actions have consequences, this shows how the prince speaking to the lady made the princess skeptical

Cite textual evidence of the key details that reveals the development of the theme that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, representing the king and princess?

• Think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the question depended upon yourself, but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy.

• This was the king's semi-barbaric method of administering justice. Its perfect fairness is obvious

•   He had expected her to know it. He understood her nature, and his soul was assured that she would never rest until she had made plain to herself this thing, hidden to all other lookers-on, even to

•      This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own. As is usual in such cases, she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity.