Which came out of the opened door,—the lady, or the tiger?
I think she pointed him to the wrong door, but since they switch them sometimes, I think he married the lady. I just want him to marry the lady to make her angry and think about her actions. But if we were to talk about what will happen, he for sure got eaten.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
This proves my point. She wants him to not marry the woman. Jealousy is stronger than love because if she loved him, she would be happy that he lived.
C
She is beautiful, but seems to be very jealous of the woman who blushed and trembled. I think the princess definitely has jealousy over the beautiful lady/woman. She also seems nice because she, in a way, is helping her lover.
And not only did she know in which room stood the lady ready to emerge, all blushing and radiant, should her door be opened, but she knew who the lady was.
The princess knew who the lady was. The lady was also dressed up beautifully for this occasion.
CONFLICT
He wasn't accused of anything bad. He was just accused of loving the king's daughter, no one ever dared to love the daughter. I don't know if it was like breaking the law.
This love affair moved on happily for many months, until one day the king happened to discover its existence. He did not hesitate nor waver in regard to his duty in the premises. The youth was immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the king's arena.
So they loved each other but when the king found out, he grew angry and made the man go into the arena.
3
In The Hunger Games, President Snow does the Hunger Games to prove power and leadership over all of Panem. Similar to the king in this story.
2
If he is not innocent, that means he is guilty. I think the king will probably be happy that he died.
1
It is not completely fair because what if you have kids or a wife? The man ends up loosing his family! If you choose the other door, you get eaten. It is not fair unless you are single and choose the lady door.
hilarious
Joyful instead of funny.
as a reward of his innocence
Isn't it about the luck of which door he chose?
The moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided, doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience, with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have merited so dire a fate.
So the bells would be clanged, and the audience would bow their head, sad that they lost someone in that way of punishment.
crime of sufficient importance to interest the king
The crime is of enough importance for it to matter to the king.
was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.
It was created to either punish someone for what they did, like a jury, or reward someone for the good deed they did.
an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
This is another way of saying "anything he would imagine or think, he would turn into facts." It is a very stubborn way or ruling.
condescending paternalistic terminology
What does this phrase mean?
The whole point of the story is that the wicked stepmother makes her wear old clothes and sleep in the fireplace-"
Just like Cinderella.
poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked stepmother
I feel like this is usually the cliche scenario to some movies.
query
Query means a question or to ask a question.
And stepmothers-they always get it in the neck!
I completely agree. Most of the time, the stepmothers are the villains or are evil (Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel).
There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.
This is going to come to play later. Something is going to happen.
He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
Why would Josephine cry? Did something happen to her sister?
And yet she had loved him
She loved him yet not all the time. I don't get it, did they get into lots of fights?
She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will
Is this a metaphor for her trying to overcome/avoid the depression that wants to take over her?
Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
When you cry too much, the physical exhaustion will make you feel like sleeping. I can only imagine how she feels.
while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.
I think he did this as a victory. He felt pride in sitting over the perfectly covered up corpse, since he had "done a good job".
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
He was driven mad by the deed he had done. I'm assuming this story is about how the decisions you make and try to cover up will only come back to haunt you? I'm not entirely sure.
First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
How is this going to come to play later? Was there a reason he decided to cut of the limbs?
He shrieked once—once only.
Was he dead by the time the lantern reached him?
crevice
A narrow opening in anything, mainly a rock or wall.
I looked in upon him while he slept.
He killed the man in his sleep all because of an eye, and before the murder occurs, the mad man decides to watch the old man every night while he sleeps.
Hearken!
Definition is to listen.
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.
He seems to be not be sane. He can't possibly hear all the things in the world.
During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarabbeetles, a faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions.
How come in the dark, it seems like a ghost town?
its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.
Does that signify every other house is the same, and his is the odd one out?
; it smelled too clean and hard and metallic. There was nothing soft there.
The car was too good to be true. I'm starting to sense they (maybe androids) want to get rid of people like him. They want to eliminate the people that aren't stuck on the screen. Maybe that explains why he doesn't see anymore faces on the streets.
"And you have a viewing screen in your house to see with?"
I think this is going to come to play. It is a television and it seems that almost everyone there is inside, watching television, not doing anything else.
Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house
Does he ever get tired? Why did he only return to his house at midnight?