Essay on The Lady or the Tiger

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AP English
Dr. Gordin
22 September 2012
The Deeper Meaning of a Barbie The poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and the essay “Our Barbies Ourselves” by Emily Prager, both argue that Barbies carry a deeper meaning. According to Piercy, Barbie dolls are menacing tools that affect the way young girls grow up. Prager claims that Barbies are used as sexual devices since the creator is a man. Piercy shows us that from a young age girls are given the tools to become what society expects them to be, for example “presented dolls that did pee-pee/ and miniature GE stoves and irons/ and wee lipstick the color of cherry candy” (Piercy lines 2-4). Piercy emphasizes how society expects girls to be a cook, a house wife and still be able to look good. Also we can see from the poem that the young girl is constantly judged and is molded to be something that she is not even though she is perfectly normal, “she was advised to play coy,/ exhorted to come on hearty, /exercise, diet, smile and wheedle” (Piercy12-14). Piercy emphasizes how Barbies are menacing tools that make girls seem like she is not good enough and changes her appearance to satisfy others and to look as perfect as a “Barbie doll”, Furthermore Barbie is used as a sexual device when Piercy states “In the casket displayed on satin she lay”(19). Dressed in a pink and white nightie” (22). The casket in this quote represents a Barbie doll box and the nightie makes the girl look like a sexual device. Dominguez 2
Prager also believes that Barbies carry a deeper meaning such as the one that Barbies are sexual devices created by a man “There are millions of women who are subliminally sure that a thirty-nine-inch bust and a twenty-three-inch waist are the epitome of lovability (Prager 354).” Prager states that women have come to believe that Barbie has the

The Lady Or The Tiger Quotes

and units everyone together to pursuit everyone’s ambition for greatness. In the fiction story “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank R. Stockton, he introduced a princess that acquires the information on her lover’s fate due to her father, The King finding out their secret love affair. The princess gathered information on the two doors which one obtained the fair maiden and the one with the hungry tiger. The decisions she had to decide from would be more crucial, would she let her lover marry another woman…

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The Lady Or The Tiger Essay

“The Lady or the Tiger?” is a short story by Roger Stockton, is about a servant who has secret relations with the king’s daughter, and then gets put in jail. The king had made it so trials were held in the arena, where the accused chose between two doors, one with a ferocious tiger and one with a beautiful woman to marry. The servant goes to trial where the daughter, who secretly knows what is behind which doors tells him to choose the door on the right. Although the story does not say, I believe…

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The Lady Or The Tiger Character Analysis

emotional plot twists, or even an appropriate use of humor. The text, "The Lady or the Tiger", by Frank R. Stockton, would be an example of a quality story. In "The Lady or the Tiger”, a barbaric king enforces harsh rules over his kingdom and anyone who disobeys these rules is sent to a coliseum. When inside the coliseum, the accused has to pick a door, behind one door is a fair maiden and behind the other is a fierce tiger. One day, the king was made aware that his exquisite daughter had a lover…

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The Lady Or The Tiger Literary Analysis

whether they were to witness a bloody slaughter or a hilarious wedding”(Stockton, 4). This quote represents the brutality of the plot of The Lady or the Tiger because it says what could or could not happen in the story. In the story, Stockton uses suspenseful elements as well as a mysterious ending to keep the reader’s attention. In the story The Lady of or the Tiger Frank Stockton creates suspenseful experience for the reader through his use of tone creative plot structure and ends in a mystery. The…

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Comparing The Story 'The Lady And The Tiger'

I believe that in the story "The Lady and The Tiger" the lady is the one who came out of the door. The story opens up with a little history of what happens in an amphitheater filled with the king, a lady, a tiger, a man convicted of a crime, and a hand full of citizens. In the story the princesses lover is the one convicted. He can pick one door. Behind one there is a women which he immediately marries. Behind the other door is a hungry tiger that will rip him to shreds. The princess however knows…

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Short Story 'The Lady Or The Tiger?'

that he had a tough decision, made a choice, and it ended badly. In the short story “The Lady or the Tiger?” there is a princess who must face a tough decision to either save her true love, yet him be with another woman, or her love being killed by a tiger. Although, the woman who the lover would be wedded to is not on good terms with the princess. Throughout the story hints are placed to tell whether the lady or the…

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The Lady Or The Tiger Research Paper

The Lady or The Tiger There are multiple reasons why I believe that the princess would point the love of her life to the lady and not the Tiger. Of course if she points him to the lady she will lose him forever to a lady that she hates with a passion, but if she points him to the tiger he will die and she will never be able to see him again. I would like to think that if someone really loves another person and that person was in a life or death situation that they would point them towards life…

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The Lady: The Tiger Or The Monty Hall Debate

In everyday life we are faced with making decisions. These decisions may be more serious or impactful than others. In the short story, The Lady or the Tiger or The monty Hall Debate the main characters have some decisions to make one bigger than the other. The princess is forced to make the decision to let her lover get killed by a tiger. Or let her lover get married to another and live happily ever after without her. By analysing the themes of choices it is possible to understand how these choices…

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Frank Richard Stockton's 'The Lady Or The Tiger?'

influenced Stockton’s most famous story “The Lady or the Tiger?” During the nineteenth century, popular American literature included plenty of adventure novels and humorous works which often depicted the emerging American culture. Another popular form was the simple short story with a trick ending, like O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” Stockton was considered a humorist, and his stories often combined elements of humor with a trick ending. In “The Lady or the Tiger,” the king built an arena for punishing…

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The Tiger Essay

“The Lady, or the Tiger?” Final In Frank Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger?" a half-barbaric king conceived a way of exercising justice on offenders against his rule. He placed his suspects in an arena and had him choose to open one of either of two doors that would open into the arena. Behind one of the identical doors lurked a ferocious tiger that would leap out and devour the accused. But behind the other door awaited a lovely maid who would, come forth and be married at once. All of this…

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