I say the tiger.
I guess it all really depends on which door I open.
Since the OP has declined to provide any form of useful information for those of us who do not recall the story, here is one version. I should state this particular form is much longer and fancier than it needs to be.
The meaning fo the story is question for the reader: which do you think love really is? Naked possession, or both the wanting the lover and the best for the lover . Is it Mammon or Eros?
Really? I thought it was about a semi-barbarian princess with a dilemma.
I’m not very good at allegories.
Definitely the lady. No, wait, forget that; the tiger. I mean lady. Can I ask the sex of the tiger?
The lady – because as long as the hero is alive, there’s always a chance.
But if Monty opens one of the three doors to show it is empty, would you change your choice?
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I couldn’t vote. Way back in junior high English class, we had a writing assignment to finish the story.
He opened the door to find the lady and pushed her through the other door with the tiger, thus making himself available for the princess.
Win-win.
Pfft. No need to speculate, the original author wrote a sequel.
The tiger for sure. If she can’t have him, no one will. The story states that she dwelled upon the possibiity of his life with the lady more than his fate with the tiger. And life with the lady disturbed her more.
There were probably tigers behind both doors, if I read my princess’ correctly.
The story is complete as it stands. To specify the outcome would render it incomplete.
Malleus–are you a Furry?
If so, there may be no difference between the two options.
So, were there no female criminals in this land?
Yes. They were not exempted from the choice, nor were they given the option of a gentleman rather than a lady.
A great number of gaolers in this land wrote letters to Penthouse.
While that’s possibly accurate, by specifying that she’s a barbarian, that she hated the idea of him pairing up with the one woman more than with him getting mauled, it does seem like he’s trying to force us to accept that she would send him to the tigers and that we shouldn’t find this odd. Of course, it might be that he only stressed these points because he felt that otherwise people wouldn’t think that she might actually choose the tigers.
But personally, I’d say that she would choose the tigers. But that’s based on how she is displayed in the story, which is separate from what love is or should be.
Tiger, for sure. I always thought so.
I read the sequel. I can’t say I’ve decided yet.
I’d ask both the lady and the tiger which door the other one would say is the correct one.
I notice that in the sequel, the reasoning is missing a key point. The groom is pondering whether his bride would smile or frown, but he’s failing to consider the other lady: There’s a woman in the line-up who isn’t his bride, who’s also showing a non-neutral face for some reason. I think if he can figure that out, he has a better chance of picking correctly.
There’s an old Wizard of Id strip which shows a guy standing in front of two doors in an arena, and the king says, "Behind one of these doors is a beautiful woman, and behind the other is a ferocious, man eating tiger. Which door do you choose.
And the guy says, “The one with the beautiful woman.”