This week in class we read a story called "The Lady, or The Tiger" by Frank Stockton. The story takes place most likely during the time of the Roman Empire. However, in this land the king is cruel and has a ridiculous system of justice. He makes all of his people enter a public arena for trial, except this trial is unlike any other. Within the arena are two doors, one with a lady behind it and the other with a tiger. The person within the arena would be unaware of what was behind it. If the person in the arena were to choose the door with the lady they were declared innocent and were given the opportunity to marry a beautiful woman on the spot. If one were to choose the other door with Tiger behind it they would be declared guilty and mauled by the beast on the spot. It seems this system of justice is more for the entertainment of the King rather than to do what is just. Conflict arises when the king's daughter's ;over must enter the arena for trial. The woman behind one of the doors was one of the most beautiful women of all the land and the daughter despised her with a passion. As her lover enters the arena, many thoughts circle her mind. One being the thought of telling her lover which door choose, what would her father do to her? She thought about which outcome she's prefer, her lover marrying another woman, or have her lover brutally murdered. She finally decides to signal her lover to a door without her father seeing her. As her lover opens the door the story ends. Although it does not state the outcome, I believe she told her lover to choose the door with the tiger because she could not bare to live with her lover marrying another woman.