The Lady or the Tiger?

Frank Stockton was born on April 5, 1834, and died on April 20, 1902. He was an american writer and humorist, famous for his fairy tales. His most famous fable is "The Lady or the Tiger?", written in 1882.
He lived right through the Victorian Era, and liked to make fun of the Queen and her Empire in his stories.
"The Lady or the Tiger?" takes place in the Barbaric or Roman times, probably in the Mediterranean area. The story begins with a semi-barbaric king who has a singular way of administrating justice; he sends the accused to an arena where there are two doors. Behind one of the doors, there is a fierce tiger and behind the other, a beautiful lady. If the accused opens the door with the lady, we is considered innocent, and will be married to her. If he opens the door with the tiger, he is found guilty, and will be devoured by the tiger. The princess had a lover that her father, the king, did not approve of. The king decided to judge this man in his arena. The princess found out which door hid the lady and which the tiger. The whole intrigue is based on which door she will tell her lover to open. Will she let him live with another woman in order to save his life or will she sacrify her lover, but keep him to herself forever? The answer is left to the reader.

Vocabulary :
-will (n): particular desire, pleasure, choice.
-valour (n): boldness or determination in facing great danger
-poetic justice (n): the ideal justice - proper distributin of rewards and punishments
-wails (v): a wailing cry, as of grief, pain, or despair
-mourners (n): a person who attends a funeral to express sorrow for the deceased
-dire (adj): causing or involving great fear or suffering
-fate (n): something that unavoidably befalls a person, destiny
-fair (adj): pleasing in appearance
-choristers (n): members of a choir
-maidens (n): young unmarried women
-the apple of his eye (n): someone cherished above others
-unsurpassed (adj): unequaled, matchless
-startling (adj): creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder
-damsels (n): pretty women
-glances (v): to look quickly or briefly
-mazes (n): labyrinths
-fangs (n): long and sharp teeth of an animal
-gnashed (v): grind
-shriek (v): to cry out sharply in a high voice
-anguished (adj): tormented

Question : What advice would you give the lover boy and why?
The fact that the narrator insists on how the king and the princess are barbaric indicates that probably, the princess will choose the tiger. She'd rather see her lover eaten by a tiger than married to her worst ennemy. The advice I would give to the lover boy is not to go to the door the princess tells him to go to.