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=Was it the Lady or the Tiger?=

In the end of this short story, “The Lady or the Tiger?”, the author had leaved the readers to think what will come out of the door that a young man opened, the lady or the tiger? For me, I think it might be the tiger that will come out because the princess, who wild and reckless, directed it for him.

From this quote “A young man who despite his low station in life loved the princess with all his heart. The princess, for her part, loved him equally” (from page 25), I think she will choose the door that hides the tiger behind because she loves the young man with all her heart so I think she cannot live if he married with someone else like this lady, fairest and loveliest lady that her father had chose. And other quote from page 26 also tells that she hates the woman, “She hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door” I think she hates this woman because she thinks she will lose her lover to her. And she does not want to lose him to any other lady. I think another reason that also made her decided this way because she is jealous and angry. Like from this quote “Her soul burning with the twin fires of jealously and despair”(from page 27).

Another quote from page 25 can explain the princess’s personality. “This semi-barbaric king had a daughter. She had a soul as wild and reckless as his own” I think this quote explains the princess’s personality clearly, wild and reckless. So, from this quote I think she can let her lover killed by the hungry tiger because of her wild and reckless personality. In page 27, it also explains the princess’s thought, like from this quote “Would it not be better for him to die at once and wait for her to join him in the future?” So, from these example evidences that explain princess’s personality, her human nature and her thought, I think the princess will direct the young man to the door that hides the tiger behind so he will die instead married with someone else which she cannot accept it. In my beliefs about the human nature, I think if we love or like someone and he or she already interested or love somebody else, we will definitely jealous the one that he or she like. Normally, I think people will not harm or kill other because of the jealousness or anger. But some people do, even with someone they love.

From my experience, often that I had read from the newspaper about someone had injure their lovers. They thought their lovers have someone else or they injure their lovers with anger which might they had dumped by their lovers. So, from this point I think jealousness and anger can injure or might kill people, in the same way that the princess will do. I think when we have problems we should calm down and solve the problems with very peace way instead injure people which is not a good way to solve the problems.