Read the passage from "The Lady, or the Tiger."
In the context of the allegory, what does the king's
behavior most likely represent?
O the abuse of power
In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king,
whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened
by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were
still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of
him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant
fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at
his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
O the power of great ideas
O the consequence of choice
O the uncertainty of love