The Lady or the Tiger?

4 points:





1. Frank Stockton discovered his passion for writing after winning a short story contest.





2 FS was writing when the romantic period was in bloom in the US.





3.He had a shorter leg, so he couldn't practice sports. However it made him discover litterature.



4.His stories were usually not only meant to entertain people, but to make them think too.



A.Vocabulary to define



Will: Something that someone orders, that this person commands to do.
Determination

Valour: The capacity to face risky situations with courage.
Courage

Poetic justice: A justice system where people are judged with irony for what they did.
Virtue is rewarded, evil is punished

Wails: Powerful cries of pain or sadness.
Cries

Mourners: People who mourn at funerals to commemorate someone's death.
People who mourn and grieve

Dire: Something very horrible and cruel.
Terrible

Fate: Someone or something's destiny.
Destiny

Fair: Something that is objective and that thinks with justice.
Pretty

Choristers: People who sing in a choir.
Singers

Maidens: A young virgin woman.
Young women

The apple of his eye: The most important thing for someone.
Somebody important

Unsurpassed: Something that was never surpassed by something better.
The best/unequalled

Startling: To be surprised by something.
Surprising

Damsels: A young noble woman.
Ladies

Glances: To look at something quickly.
Looks quickly

Mazes: Complicated schemes, with many complicated elements.
Labyrinth

Fangs: Long teeth that wild animals have to chew meat easily.
Sharp teeth

Gnash: When someone grinds his teeth together.
Grind

Shriek: A loud and sharp scream of fear.
Loud scream/Shrill

Anguished: The negative emotions with being uncertain about what is going to happen .
Tormented, tortured, anxious

B.What advice would you give the lover? Why?
I would tell him that it wouldn't matter which door he would choose to open because the girl could have told him to open the door of the room with the tiger in it not to seem him with the other girl by pure love for him. In fact, I think that the lover's own life is more important.