In The Lady, or the Tiger? there is a test in a kingdom. The test is if a person committed a crime that is noticed by the king, he or she will be placed in an arena, where there are two doors. Behind one door is a tiger, and behind the other is a lady. If the person chooses the door containing the tiger, he will be mauled to death. If the person chooses the lady, the person would get to marry the lady and live happily ever after. The princess of this kingdom has a lover, and when the king discovers the affair, he orders the lover to be put to this test. The princess, using her power and influence, finds out what is behind each door. To her horror, she discovers that the lady that is chosen is a member of the court that she deeply despises. She spent days thinking about what she should do, and eventually, she chose the right door. But we don’t know what is behind that door. So what would you have chosen?
If I had been the princess, I would have chosen the door with the lady. The first reason is that if I truly loved the man, as is implied in the story, I would have wanted what was best for him. If he had the choice of which door he would have chosen, I think he would have chosen the door that would allow him to survive, and if that is what he would want, I would want that as well.
The second reason is a little darker. As the story says that the princess is the “apple of his eye” of her father, the king. There is every reason to believe that after he dies, she(I) would inherit the throne, and along with it, absolute power. Once that happens, I would be able to take my lover back. Even if I don’t inherit the throne, I will still, as a princess, have a great deal of power and influence, and I would still be able to take him back by marrying him if his wife, the lady, had died, or if she was still alive, by waiting for her to die(or by speeding up the process).
Overall, it would have been a lot better if the king wasn’t that backward and barbaric, and this whole situation wouldn’t have happened, and the princess got to marry the man she wanted to marry. This is what I would have done if I were her. What would you have chosen?