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Lady or the Tiger?
Features: Voice-over narration; extrapolated dialog (there is no dialog in the story); exemplary background music
Since the music dominates, here is the dialog:
Narrator: In the very olden time there once lived a king. . .
King: For your crimes, you shall pay! Who’s to say that it’s unfair? For did you not choose your fate yourself?
Narrator: When a man, a commoner by birth, dared to love the princess. . .
Princess: Go! Go! For my father is coming.
Narrator: Will their love end happy?
Princess: But, Father, I love him.
King: Love? You are but a child. He will pay for this treachery, for none escape the judgment of the king’s court!
Narrator: Two doors. One. . . a beast. The other. . . a maiden of noble birth to which he will be married. She has the choice. Shall she surrender her love to another woman? Or have him be killed?
Which is stronger – Love or Jealousy?
A short story by Frank R. Stockton, Lady or the Tiger? |