„Pride goes before a fall‟. Justify the statement on basis of the chapter Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger.
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in the story mrs.packletide get jealous of loona bimberton and she try to kill a tiger to show loona ,that she is much capable then her
Miss packletide was a jealous and materialistic lady .She has been portrayed as envious and vain . The statement" fake pride ends up in misery" or"Pride goes before a fall" fits honour character.She belongs to upper class society where people try to show off and consequently become subjects of mockery.
In the story Mrs packletide wanted to overshadow loona bimberton who talked of nothing else but a recent travel in an aeroplane 1 algerian Aviator so she decided to kill a tiger just to satisfy her vanity. But during the tiger shooting incident, miss packletide killed the goat instead of the tiger and the tiger had died of heart failure. Miss mebbin took this as an advantage and blackmailed miss packletide to buy a weekend cottage at darking for her.miss packletide faces financial losses and in the end give up hunting as' incidental expenses 'where to heavy. it was only have tried to show other her superiority that lead to financial loss .Thus, the statement Pride goes before a fall is justified