What is the theme of the poem a tiger in the zoo?
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The author believes that no tiger should live in captivity and should be in the wild.
Hey there, I have just highlighted some parts of the story concluding with the message lying upon it.
In this story, as we have read, the king was destined to kill hundred tigers in his lifetime. But his death was tied up with the hundredth tiger, as the astrologer speaks of it when he was borned. As we all know "a person borned has to face his death" so the king was also no exception to this. As the readers know already, that the king didn't actually kill the last tiger as he missed the shot. Here comes the irony of the story...the king was to face death by the hundredth tiger...we all thought it to be the wild tigers, the astrology almost came to an end proving it to be wrong but the tiger that killed the king was just a wooden piece that infected the king when he was playing with his son. At the end, the whole view had changed.
The theme is that the king got so overconfident and was too much focused upon winning that he didn't think cleverly which bought him his faith. His stubborness and power pride nature bought him only mishappenings.
Hope this helps you.