The Lady or The Tiger?

4 Points:

- Frank Stockton discovered his passion for writing after winning a short story contest.
- Frank Stockton was writing when the Romantic period was in bloom in the U.S.
- Made a living as a wood engraver for fourteen years and then became writer.
- His most famous short story is The Lady or The Tiger? written in approximately 1882.

A. Vocabulary words

Will: As one wishes as or when it pleases or suits oneself / Determination
Valour: Strength of mind or spirit that enables a man to encounter danger with firmness / Courage
Poetic justice: An outcome in which vice is punished and virtue rewarded usually in a manner peculiarly or ironically appropriate / Virtue rewarded, evil punished
Wails: A usually prolonged cry or sound expressing grief or pain / Cries
Mourners: People who fell or expess grief or sorrow /People grieving
Dire: Exciting horror / Terrible
Fate: An inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end / Destiny
Fair: Pleasing to the eye or mind especially because of fresh, charming, or flawless quality / Pretty
Choristers: A singer in a choir / Singers
Maidens: An unmarried girl or woman / Young women
The apple of my eye: One that is highly cherished /Somebody important
Unsurpassed: That is not better, greater or stronger / The best, unequalled
Startling: Causing momentary fright, surprise, or astonishment / Surprising
Damsels: A young unmarried woman of noble birth / Ladies
Glances: A quick intermittent flash or gleam / Quick looks
Mazes: Something intricately or confusingly elaborate or complicated / Labyrinths
Fangs: A long sharp tooth as one by which an animal's prey is seized and help or torn / Sharp teeth
Gnash: To strike or grind (as the teeth) together / Grind
Shriek: A shrill usually wild or involuntary cry / Loud scream, shrill
Anguished: Suffering anguish, tormented / Tormented, tortured, anxious

B. What advice would you give the lover? Why?
I think the lover should listen to his own instinct, because I don't trust the princess, and we don't know anyway if the door she refered to was to be the one avoided or the one to open. For the lover not to mix this up, he should ignore her advice and choose on his own.