In Shakespeare’s time people believed in witches. They were people who had made a pact with the Devil in exchange for supernatural powers. If your cow was ill, it was easy to decide it had been cursed. If there was plague in your village, it was because of a witch. If the beans didn’t grow, it was because of a witch. Witches might have a familiar – a pet, or a toad, or a bird – which was supposed to be a demon advisor. People accused of being witches tended to be old, poor, single women. It is at this time that the idea of witches riding around on broomsticks (a common household implement in Elizabethan England) becomes popular.
There are lots of ways to test for a witch. A common way was to use a ducking stool, or just to tie them up, and duck the accused under water in a pond or river. If she floated, she was a witch. If she didn’t, she was innocent. She probably drowned. Anyone who floated was then burnt at the stake. It was legal to kill witches because of the Witchcraft Act passed in 1563, which set out steps to take against witches who used spirits to kill people.
King James I became king in 1603. He was particularly superstitious about witches and even wrote a book on the subject. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth especially to appeal to James – it has witches and is set in Scotland, where he was already king. The three witches in Macbeth manipulate the characters into disaster, and cast spells to destroy lives. Other magic beings, the fairies, appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elizabethans thought fairies played tricks on innocent people – just as they do in the play.
I don’t see a picture, but if I had to guess, As a language develops, new usages, meanings, subtleties and nuances arise.
That's because the other important element of language is context. ... The more of these words included in a language, the faster, and more efficiently, people could understand one another — as long as they were also good at parsing out which of the words' different meanings were appropriate.
Hey ! Without the environment, there would be no democracy and no peace. They all intertwine to form a society of peaceful people. With peace, an environment could be much cleaner. Have a great day...
Answer:
Love becomes the influencing factor for the princess and she did not want him to die but she also knows she can't have him get married to another woman. And debating between the two options, which either way will make sure she doesn't get him, she must decide on which door to choose from, with the man's full faith in her.
If I were in the princess's position, I would choose rather see him get married to the woman instead of leading him to his death. Even though there may be no future, the man still deserves to live and be alive and not be killed just because he fell in love with a princess.
Explanation:
In the short story "The Lady or The Tiger", the fate of the young man depends on the decision of the princess. And with his life on her hands, the author Frank R. Stockton leaves us with the big question of whether the princess led the young man to his death the tiger, or to the beautiful lady who will become his wife.
With the primary theme being love between the princess and the courtier who was from a lower social class, the notion of love becomes the most important aspect of the young man's life. And with his faith in her, the feeling of love supersedes the fear of choosing the wrong door. He has full faith in the princess's choice that is best for him. But the princess, on the other hand, has a lot to think about before deciding to lead her lover to the door he thinks is right for him. She has to choose to either see him get married to another woman or be killed by a tiger. And she even feels jealous to think of him getting married to another woman. This is what love does to a person, bringing in jealousy and hatred even to the point of killing the other person with the notion "if I can't have you, no one can". But at the same time, the author did not specify what door the princess leads the young man to, leaving us to conclude.
If the position to make the decision was on me, I think I will choose to keep him alive and rather see him married to another woman instead of killing him and taking his life. Taking the life of a person is not something that a person has the right to, and it is far better to see a person alive and secure instead of leading him to his death. Besides, living is our right and no one should be deprived of that unless they did a sinful deed worthy of death.
I don't know what your options are but from my experience I have to go with faithfulness and/or loyalty.
Hope this helps!
-Payshence
