As defined by Merriam-Webster.com, a dilemma is stated as “a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices”. Dilemmas often play a huge role in our lives and are even used by story writters to draw people into the story and to develop the plot and to round out a character. The two short stories Gentlemen, Your Verdict, and The Lady, or the Tiger have dillemmas which lead to characters making decisions, as dilemmas often tend to do, that leave readers questioning whether or not the decision in Gentlemen, Your Verdict was morally and ethically the right decision to make. Readers were also left with an indeterminate ending in The Lady, or the Tiger, where the decision to the dilemma is cut off due to the indeterminate ending.
Gentlemen, Your Verdict, and The Lady, or the Tiger, are based around dilemmas. Gentlemen, Your Verdict, is about a submarine with a crew of twenty one that hit an underwater mine and became stranded at the bottom of the ocean. The submarine only had enough oxygen for three days for a full crew and rescue was seven days away. The commanding officer, Lieutenant-Commander Oram, was forced to choose between having his crew sit tight and hope for the best or to kill fifteen of his men inculding himself so that at least a small portion of the survivors will have enough oxygen to wait until rescue. Oram choose the option that would ensure the lives of some of his crew would get out alive. In The Lady, or the Tiger, a princess and a commoner fall in love in a barbaric state not unlike Rome. The king dissaproves of this relationship and puts the princess’ lover into an arena where he has to choose between two doors. one door hides a blood thirsty tiger and the other offers the lover a bride with whom he shall marry and spend the rest of his days with. The princess has to decide which option would bring her the least pain after finding out which door hides what and her lover asks her which door to choose but the author never actually reveals what door the princess actually sent her lover through.
The Essay on Finders keepers my ethical dilemma
Introduction My mother always told me I must learn to think for myself, question a situation and most importantly, I must learn to say ‘NO’, cause when the devil shows or makes you an unbelievable offer it’s harder than you think to say ‘NO’. Regardless of ethnicity, religion or culture when faced with a moral dilemma there is no telling how you would react or what your decision will be, even if ...
Lieutenant-Commander Oram killed himself and fifteen others of his crew so that at least five men under his command may survive. At a glance Lietenant-Commander Oram may seem to have made a horrible decision, but the key word there is glance. In order to fully understand whether Oram made the right choice or not, one has to dive into the story and fish out the facts. There were no ships close enough to the submarine that had the proper equipment and recources to rescue the stranded crew. The earliest that Oram and his crew may have been evacuatedwould have been in seven days. The submarine only had three days worth of oxygen for all of Oram’s men, but there was enough oxygen for five men. The only way for at least five men to survive until the evacuation would be if all but those five men left the vessel, or stopped breathing and it’s not like anyone could have simply left the submarine. If they could have then there wouldn’t be a problem at all but the hatches were jammed shut so that was not an option. The only two options left were for everyone to die together or for the majority to sacrifice themselfs for the few and it makes a whole lot more sense for sixteen men to die and five to get out alive rather than twenty one men to die and nobody gets out alive. So by looking at these facts, the only viable option left to Lieutenant-Commander Oram was to poison sixteen men, including himself and leaving the final five to wait for rescue. Therefore Oram actually made the best decision that anyone could have made in his postion.
If the author had actually finished The Lady, or the Tiger, rather than cutting it off right on the climax and going into some philosophical mumbo jumbo. Most readers would agree that the philosophical mumbo jumbo was exactly that, mumbo jumbo but if one were to actually claw himself through the pompus and annoying way that the mumbo jumbo was written, it would become obvious that the author actually did tell the readers which choice the princess made, albeit very subtly and not at all direct. The fact that the princess was even considering condeming her lover to death indicated that she had very little faith in the possibility that if she gave him the gift of life, he wouldn’t run off with the pretty girl behind the door, with whom they already have a bit of history. With that in mind the other bits of evidence which indicate or give any sliver of hope to those that hoped that she would send him through the door of life almost becomes insufferior to the looming possibilty of her sending him through the door of the tiger. Jealousy is a very powerful force which can drive poeple to make rash decisions. The saying that goes hand in hand with jealousy sounds something like “if i can’t have him, noone can”. That is what is going through the princess’ mind as she makes a list of pro’s and cons. Her list of pro’s and con’s would make the majority of people let the man live but the princess is the daughter of a barbaric king and most likely would rather see her lover’s life ripped from his body by a blood thirsty tiger than face the possibility of him falling in love with another woman. So by putting oneself into the princess’ shoes it becomes clear that the story ended with the tiger having a delicious dinner.
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Of mice and men – how does Steinbeck make this extract a particularly powerful moment in the novel? The begging of chapter 6 is the same as chapter 1. I think this symbolises the beginning and the end of the story, meaning the end of an era for George and Lennie. Just as at the begging Steinbeck describes Lennie as “dragging his feet, the way a bear drags his paws” and then again at chapter 6 he ...
“A situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices” is exactly what was demonstrated in both Gentlemen, Your Verdict, and The Lady, or the Tiger. Lieutenant-Commander Oram was forced to take the only viable route and kill himself and fifteen other crew members so that his second in command and four of his subordinates may return to there families alive. The princess from The Lady, or the Tiger, condemmed her lover to death by the jaws of a man eating tiger so that she may not loose him to the heart of another woman. Both Lieutenant Oran and the princess were painted into a corner in which they had to make a great sacrifice for what they believed was the right thing to do.
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