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There is a river with a bridge and a wife and her
husband live in a house on one side. The wife has a lover who
lives on the other side. The only way to get across the river
is to walk across the bridge or ask the boatman to take you.
The husband has to go on an overnight business trip in a
faraway town. The wide pleads with him to take her with him.
She knows if he doesn't she'll be unfaithful to him. The
husband absolutely refuses to take her because she will only
be in the way of his important business. So the husband goes
alone.
That night the wife goes over the bridge and stays with her
lover. Dawn is almost up when the wife leaves because she must
be back home before her husband returns. She starts walking across the
bridge but sees an assassin waiting for her on the other side.
She knows if she tries to cross, he will murder her. In
terror, she runs up the side of the river and asks the boatman
to take her across the river, but he wants too much money. She
doesn't have enough, so he refuses to take her.
The wife runs back to the lover's house and explains her
predicament and asks him to pay the
boatman. The lover refuses, telling her it's her own fault for
getting into this situation. As dawn comes up the wife decides
to dash across the bridge. She comes face to face with the
assassin and he kills her.
How to do this test. Now give the names of the five characters in the order in
which you think they were most responsible for the wife's
death. i.e. The wife, husband, lover, assassin, and boatman in the
order you think they are most guilty.
Here's the key to this.
Lover = sex
Wife = fun (fun could also mean contentment)
Assassin = money
Boatman = magic (magic could also mean luck)
Husband = love
Each of the
characters is a symbol for one aspect in your life, it reveals
what's most important to you in your life. Therefore if you thought
that the lover was the most responsible then sex is the most
important thing in your life. If you thought that the wife was
second most responsible then fun is the second most important thing
in your life and so on. |
