Sunny Youth Journal

Have you ever thought about being a pianist and musician? As everyone knows Mozart was a very well known musician. Wrote many songs for piano and had a very interesting life. Till his death, he went through a lot of challenges and dangers. 

When Mozart was little he always played his violin. By then he was already known as a musician. He was given a really good gift of having good talent as a musician. He got really good at viola but then soon later he started becoming a prodigy at piano! Got really famous, started getting really good and mastered at 4 years old.

After a few years Mozart had gotten really good at piano and started to compose some little pieces. His full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When he had gotten a lot older he was still holding on to his piano career. 

Bad things happened to Mozart. He had gotten really sick and soon later gotten a disease. He had to go through a lot of suffering. Soon he had gotten even worse and could not do his music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had soon later died on  1791 december 5th. He died at quite an early age of 35.

Even though Mozart has died , people all around the world enjoy his music very much, by playing his songs. People are even trying to become a very good pianist and musician. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Austria in 1756. This young prodigy learned to play the clavier (piano) at age 4, and made his first symphony by the age of eight. In his lifetime, he would create up to 600 works of music, especially his famous Requiem mass, made right before he died.

As Mozart grew older, he managed to seize a job as a Court musician for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. He made so many symphonies and operas to the point where he got bored and went to Paris. That choice didn’t work well, and he ended up back in Salzburg, serving Archbishop Colloredo. They battled a lot, and finally, Mozart gave in and traveled to Vienna, which at the time, was a musical center for Europe. He was recognized and praised, and even married Constanze Weber, the third daughter of a musical family. Later, Constanze would prove a good financial supervisor for Mozart.

Finally, Mozart reached his peak. He was still in debt, but with the amount of revenue coming in, he moved into a opulent new penthouse and started spending money lasvishly. Soon, the world started to change, and it was really hard for a musician to survive and live a luxurious life. Roughly around 1786, Mozart’s fame depleted almost completely, with him barely performing in public.

He was forced to get a job as a chamber musician for the emperor to survive. He moved to other cities to spark his fame just like in Vienna, but all those uprisings weren’t successful. Luckily, in 1790, his financial situation started looking positive and here we are, still writing about his fame and music.

Sadly, by 1791, Mozart was in his deathbed, and he was writing his Requiem Mass. He finished the piece and conceded to death. This famous genius became world renowned even inspiring the great Beethoven. After 229 years, we are still speaking of his legacy.

I believe that jealousy and love can make people commit to doing things that are unbelievable. In the short story,”The Lady or the Tiger”,by Frank Stockton, the princess lover is put into the arena, because apparently that loving each other is a crime. Inside the arena consist of two doors, which one contains a tiger and the other a lady. The man must choose one of the doors to open. Ultimately the life of the man is in the princess hand because she knows what is behind them.
However, I believe that their could be a third option for the kid; when he goes to choose a door, what actually is behind them is absolutely nothing. This is obviously done by the princess. The objective of having nothing behind those doors proves that that in their religion in believing supernatural powers, this might have provided a good explanation to the king and people, that this man was chosen to live. After seeing this idea, I think the king might give the man permission to marry the princess. There are a few reasons why I believe that behind the doors contain nothing. Throughout the story we learn that the love between the princess and the man is pretty strong. Stockton states,” She loved him with an ador that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong”. We can also see that “love affair moved on happily for months”. After seeing this description of their passionate love we can say she would do anything for him.

Overall, the love between the two is too strong, that I believe she will do anything for him because after seeing both of the choices behind the door, she didn’t really have a good choice but to create a 3rd option for herself.

Picture the following scenario in your head. A man is standing trial in an arena. There are two doors, and his sentence is determined by whichever door he opens. One door holds a tiger, ready to rip him into shreds, while the other holds a beautiful lady, who will marry him if he opens her door. Nobody knows which door holds which. This is the setting of the short story The Lady, or the Tiger, written by Frank R. Stockton. A theme in this story is that sometimes your choices don’t matter.

In the story, a king makes up a judicial system in which he has no responsibility at all. The convict chooses a door, and whatever is behind the door is his sentence. If it’s a beautiful lady, she marries him, and if it’s a tiger, he gets mauled to death. A random peasant and the princess fall in love, and he is put on trial for loving the princess. The princess finds out which door is which, and is given the choice of letting her lover die or having him marry another woman. She points her lover towards the door she chose for him, and he opens it without hesitation, abruptly ending the story.

While the ending is left unclear, we can see that the choice doesn’t affect the princess at all. If she directs her lover towards the tiger, he dies and she’ll never see him again, and if she directs him towards the lady, he gets married to someone else and will also be forever separated from the princess. Either way, she’ll lose him. Here, the king has set up a situation in which either way, the relationship of the lovers will be severed. No matter which door the princess chooses, the results will be the same for her.

In The Lady, or the Tiger, the princess is given the illusion of having a choice. In reality, from her perspective, it’s all the same. Her choice in the end, is pointless, and either way her lover is dead to her.

In The Lady, or the Tiger? there is a test in a kingdom. The test is if a person committed a crime that is noticed by the king, he or she will be placed in an arena, where there are two doors. Behind one door is a tiger, and behind the other is a lady. If the person chooses the door containing the tiger, he will be mauled to death. If the person chooses the lady, the person would get to marry the lady and live happily ever after. The princess of this kingdom has a lover, and when the king discovers the affair, he orders the lover to be put to this test. The princess, using her power and influence, finds out what is behind each door. To her horror, she discovers that the lady that is chosen is a member of the court that she deeply despises. She spent days thinking about what she should do, and eventually, she chose the right door. But we don’t know what is behind that door. So what would you have chosen?

If I had been the princess, I would have chosen the door with the lady. The first reason is that if I truly loved the man, as is implied in the story, I would have wanted what was best for him. If he had the choice of which door he would have chosen, I think he would have chosen the door that would allow him to survive, and if that is what he would want, I would want that as well. 

The second reason is a little darker. As the story says that the princess is the “apple of his eye” of her father, the king. There is every reason to believe that after he dies, she(I) would inherit the throne, and along with it, absolute power. Once that happens, I would be able to take my lover back. Even if I don’t inherit the throne, I will still, as a princess, have a great deal of power and influence, and I would still be able to take him back by marrying him if his wife, the lady, had died, or if she was still alive, by waiting for her to die(or by speeding up the process). 

Overall, it would have been a lot better if the king wasn’t that backward and barbaric, and this whole situation wouldn’t have happened, and the princess got to marry the man she wanted to marry. This is what I would have done if I were her. What would you have chosen?

In the end of the short story The Lady, or the Tiger?, the youth has to open one of two doors, which can have a hungry tiger or a damsel. This youth was in love with the King’s daughter, and the King’s daughter is watching. The king’s daughter tells him to go to the right hand side, but the author never reveals which door he took. So, did he take the one with the tiger, or the one with a damsel that he has to marry on the spot. I will be giving reasons for both sides.

First, she might have told him to go to the door with the damsel, so that he could live. The youth’s life was worth more than chuckles from the king. She also only had a split second to think, so she might of been nervous and just did not want to regret him being dead.

In contrary, the daughter might of killed him because she actually loved him but it would be a pain for her to see him married to another woman, who is also a person she hates. Also, her father is barbaric, and she might have the same gut feeling as her dad. She also might of hated him which makes it likely.

To sum it up, there are many different possible answers to this question, but one is not sure of it. There is a lot of different mindsets that the daughter could’ve had in that moment at that time. We will never know what the answer might be.

The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton is about a tyrant’s daughter whose lover is put in an arena. In this arena the princess is forced to choose whether her lover gets mauled by a tiger or is married to another lady who she knows. We end up not knowing whether the princess has the lover choose the door with the tiger or the door with the woman.

Now the king is described as a semi-barbaric man in the story. He is described this way since he was somewhat influenced by the Romans who were actually considered polished and progressive. He in his arena was doing what he loved which was controlling peoples fates by chance, he was the judge. He controlled them as a tyrant and the audience found this ritual like thing entertaining but they most likely wouldn’t find it entertaining if they chose the tiger in this arena.

In the moment that the princess had to choose her lovers fate she effectively becomes the judge of the arena. In her choice she would either give in to her jealousy and barbaric side and give her lover the tiger. She could go into her love and compassion and give her lover to someone else.

In conclusion whatever she chooses she loses but it depends on whether she wants to live the rest of her life in guilt or live the rest of her life in envy. but whatever she chooses her lover will do whatever she wants him to do for he loves her and is enough of a fool to do anything.

In the kingdom of the semi-barbaric king, justice is served with the unlocking of a door. In a public arena, the guilty is forced to choose between two doors, behind one a tiger, behind the other, a lady. Based solely upon luck, a man is deemed guilty and devoured by a tiger, or free to go, married to a beautiful lady. More than just revealing innocence, or lack thereof, however, this “arena of the king” brings up questions if impartial and fair consequences even exists.

In the king’s arena, justice is impartial; it is regulated by “the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.” After all, luck isn’t something that can be bribed. Nevertheless, this form of justice isn’t just at all. A criminal worthy of death could easily choose the door to the lady, and a blameless person could just as easily swing open the door barring a hungry tiger from its meal. Despite being unbiased, the consequences in the king’s arena are not justly imparted.

Unlike luck, humans are very vulnerable to bias. In this story, the princess is to pass judgement on her lover. She, being the princess, knows what lies behind the two doors. But there is no way she can be impartial, as she loves the guilty man in question. The princess is in a tight bind, losing if she gestures towards the door containing the tiger, still losing if she points towards the lady. On one hand, she loathes the thought of her lover dying a gruesome death, but on the other, she is filled with jealousy when thinking of him marrying another, hating “the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door.” Clearly, the princess also unfit for passing justice, for she has too many emotions and memories tying her to the guilty man.

The king’s arena chooses impartiality over fairness, while the princess is unable to stay unbiased. Both complete disinterest and amorous love jeopardize true justice, leading back to the question if justice can exist. Ultimately, even the author doesn’t pass judgement, instead choosing to leave it in hazy ambiguities.

The Lady or the Tiger is a story about a king who punishes people by giving them two doors. One with a tiger that will certainly kill them. The other with some sort of nice thing, such as a lover. In the story the lover of the princess is forced to make the terrible pick. One door with a tiger, the other with a lover. The princess has the chance to tell him which door to pick, but she doesn’t want him with a new girl. Which does she pick? The story doesn’t say but the princess likely chose to tell the prince which door does have the tiger.

She hates the fact that the future lover is someone she hates. “and the princess hated her. Often had she seen, or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived, and even returned.” This means that the woman is basically stealing him from her, and she definitely doesn’t want that. Also the fact that she is doing that in the first place likely means she is not the greatest of people. The princess also likely doesn’t want the prince to be with that person, so she might do it “for his own good”.

Some may say that watching her lover get slaughtered is bad, but she has definitely seen it before. According to the story this is how the king punishes every criminal, and also is very likely to being her along. “But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!” She thinks about the lady stealing his man more than him dying, meaning she prefers him getting killed.

In conclusion, she would much rather see him die. This is because she hates the woman he will be with if he doesn’t. She also thinks about him getting to marry the woman much more, meaning she thinks this ending is worse. She would rather see her lover die than marrying someone she despises.