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Frank Stockton's Objectifiers

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The author Frank Stockton used Simile to reveal how cruel, arrogant, and self-centered the princess is.The author say, “ and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own” (Stockton 47).Frank Stockton used simile to compare the princess to her father. Stockton used simile when he said, “as fervent and imperious as his own”. This Shows how cruel, arrogant, and self-centered she is. The princess is just like. The author say, “ would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the the blessed regions of semibarbaric futurity ”(Stockton 50). This shows how cruel and self centered she is. Since the princess cannot mary her lover she thinks if he dies then death will unite them. The princess has no regard for other people's

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