Read the sentence from "The Lady, or the Tiger." In the context of the sentence and the entire allegory,
what do the princess's actions most likely represent?
Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to
wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric
futurity?
that the punishment always fits the crime
that everyone is selfish sometimes
that choices have consequences
that justice always Prevails

The princess's actions most likely represent:

B. that everyone is selfish sometimes.

Explanation:

"The Lady, or the Tiger?" is a short story first published in 1882 and written by American writer and humorist Frank Richard Stockton (1834 - 1902).

The princess is one of the characters in the story and she goes through quite a hard time to make a certain decision. She is in love with a man of inferior rank. Her father, a semi-barbaric king, arrests the man and sends him to trial. The trial is as fair as one could expect coming from a semi-barbaric mind: the man will have to choose between two doors - one hiding a tiger, the other hiding a maiden. In other words, he will be judged by luck or fate. If he chooses the tiger, he dies. If he chooses the lady, he has to marry her.

The princess needs to decide if she will point him to the door with the maiden or not. Of course she loves him and does not want to see him devoured by the tiger. However, she is also very jealous when she imagines him marrying the young and beautiful maiden. Her jealousy, as shown in the passage, is a representation of how everyone can be selfish sometimes. She is indeed being selfish if she asks herself whether saving him or letting him die is the best decision. Were she a selfless woman, she would not mind him marrying another. She would be happy to have saved his life.

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