Sunny Youth Journal

The story, “The lady or the tiger,” leaves an unsettling ending. It leaves on a cliffhanger that lets the readers anxious to know what the fate of the commoner would be. There could be many conclusions to what the fate of the commoner would be, but in every single way, the commoner would never get the chance to be with the princess due to his wealth status and her overbearing father.
First of all, I think the princess would have chosen to kill her love rather than give him up to another woman. Feelings like jealousy, anger, and hatred probably aroused in the princess, so letting her lover go to another woman was probably the last choice she had on her mind. Envy makes people do appalling things and things to the extent to achieve what one wants. In one line in the story, the princess herself said that it would be as if her soul burned in agony. The choice of sadly killing her lover would most likely be the conclusion of this story for the sole reason of jealousy and what the princess wants. To put it in simpler terms, if she can’t get him, no one can get him, especially the beautiful lady that stands behind the door. Of course, killing her lover would be so painful, but it would not be as painful as for the princess seeing her ex-lover living off a life with the beautiful woman without her. She would have to live through her life knowing that she would never get the chance to be with him. Consequently, if she chose to kill her lover, she would remember him forever, but also experience that pain of losing him and not having a future with him. However, the pain would not be as unpleasant as the pain of witnessing her love move on without her.
In the end, whether or not the choice of the princess is to kill her own lover, I think jealousy would overpower one’s choices. Surely anyone in the princess’s spot would also crack under jealousy. In this situation, would most people give up their own happiness, or be selfish and do what they want? In the end, we can’t technically blame the princess for feeling jealousy if her lover will have a future with someone else. Of course, my judgement out of the limited information may be way out of line, however, there are no wrong answers. The author himself wanted the readers to make the conclusion and take it upon ourselves to imagine the end of the story line. So, given the circumstances, the princess would probably not have sacrificed her happiness for his life, even though it would lead to killing him in the end sadly.

Beethoven is a musical composer that is said to have music that is confusing and surprising. His music even includes a strong power full of energy. His life was full of ups and downs making it interesting.

Beethoven was born in Germany. His father and grandfather were singers, which made his family a musical one. He started learning piano when he was four-years-old, with his father as the mentor. When he grew older, he became an assistant organist, and also played viola, apart of the violin family, for a Prince’s orchestra. The prince enjoyed it and began to live in a musical environment. Beethoven moved to Vienna when he was 22 to study with Haydn. He thought Hayden was the greatest composer of all time, so having this opportunity for him was like a dream come true. Because of Beethoven’s gifts in playing the piano, he was surrounded by the people of Venice during his career. Beethoven made himself as a famous piano player but wasn’t known of his structure yet. In his twenties, he started to hear large ringing sounds and lose his hearing ability. Beethoven was devastated after understanding the news of becoming deaf. He started thinking about committing suicide, but after thinking more about it, he decided to continue living for music.

Beethoven evolved as a composer, creating more heroic works explaining struggle and revolution in the central part of his life. An example of one of his revolutionary pieces is his third symphony which is dedicated to the leader Napoleon. Beethoven started growing his attitude around this time. He started dressing informally and was very rude towards people. He cared very little about how he looked like. He also didn’t like conversations because of his hearing problems. Some people thought his attitude came out because he didn’t find a spouse yet. He was a stubby man and would often stomp around Vienna, deep in thought. Later, different Princes gave Beethoven a lifetime payment, but only if he stayed in Vienna. He immediately agreed without hesitation and settled there for the rest of his life.

The final years of Beethoven’s life were very hard for him. He was almost completely deaf, adding to that, his attitude and appearance were getting worse. Most of the time during his last years of life, he tried gaining custody of his nephew because his father died. Beethoven wasn’t good with financial things and used up a lot of his money resources battling with his brother’s wife. He eventually lost and lost his ability to lead orchestras. He composed his last songs at this point, which shocked many of those who loved music. He became ill during the last years of his life, with rheumatic fever, and other illnesses. He pushed himself to write the 10th symphony, right after Ode to Joy (9th symphony) but didn’t finish in time. While he was in the process of dying, he couldn’t sleep at night nor drink and was paralyzed. Beethoven, sadly, died after four operations on a stomach wound which eventually got infected. Many mourners went to his funeral to say farewell to the successful composer.

Beethoven can teach people many things according to his actions. For example, he didn’t commit suicide because he thought he would continue living for his passion, music. This lesson may teach others to always live for their dreams because giving up will not do anything. His music has heavily inspired others to play piano, maybe other people will continue to spread positivity around.

Once upon a time lived a brute king

Who looked upon his people as play things

Think think, and he had a great scheme

Oh, but how it was so very mean

Alas the ones accused of a crime

Would blindly pick death, or there life-line

Two doors laid upon the man

Containing a tiger and bride hotter than a frying pan.

A handsome mortal was the king’s pick .

Accused of an affair with the princess chick.

From afar sat the royal lady.

Knowing something quite so shady.

How she despised the likely bride

Yet would she let her lover be left to homocide?

The appointed day has arrived. People from far and wide gathered in the great galleries of the arena. The princess sat beside her father, and as the crowd hushed, the signal was given. A door beneath the royal party opened, and the princess’s lover walked into the arena.

Her lover was tall, beautiful and fair, and the princess could hear the murmuring of the crowd, especially of the ladies. Half the audience had not known that such a grand youth had lived among them! Jealousy slowly started to fill her head.

As her lover advanced into the arena, he turned to bow to the king, but his gaze was fixed upon the princess. She understood what she had to do.

The princess knew who was in each room, the tiger and the lady. Not only did she know which room the lady stood in, ready to emerge, but she knew who the lady was. It was one of the fairest and loveliest of those who have been selected as the reward of the accused youth, and the princess hated her.

She have had nightmares of her lover opening one of the doors, and being pounced on by the ferocious tiger. But the princess had seen him at the other door much more, rushing to meet that woman, with her flushing cheeks and her sparkling eyes of triumph. Jealousy clouded the princess’s mind, and she made her choice.

As her lover’s eyes met hers, the princess raised her hand and made a slight, quick movement to the right. She had lost him, but who should have him? No one, the princess thought resentfully.

“We shall meet each other in the afterlife,” the princess muttered softly.

Her lover turned, and without the slightest hesitation, walked and opened the door on the right. The cruel tiger, waiting for its meal, pounced on the youth. Shrieks echoed through the arena, ringing in the princess’s ears. Tears ran down her face, and she cried miserably, looking away from her lover’s betrayed face.

The short story “The Lady or the Tiger?” is about a trial system, that completely randomly decides if a person is guilty or innocent. If the person is innocent, the person is married to a lady that was chosen beforehand by the King, regardless of whether the man in the trial was married or not. If the person is guilty, he gets killed by a tiger. The main plot of the story is about the internal struggle of the princess, who has to choose whether to let her lover live and be married to a woman that she does not like, or to let him die painfully in the hands of a tiger. When the lover looks at the princess for help during the trial, the princess makes a short movement, which indicates the choice the lover should make. However, the story ends without us knowing whether the lover got killed or if the lover was married. However, what was it like for the King, who arranged the entire system of the trial?

Imagine the King’s point of view. The King is doing the things that a monarch would usually be doing, such as managing the food supply of the kingdom or seeing who didn’t pay their taxes, and minding his own business, when he hears that his daughter was in an affair with a man behind his back. The King is enraged, and tracks down the man and throws him in prison to await his trial. In the trial, the man will open one of two doors, one of which would hold a tiger ready to feast on the roles of the man, and another would hold a woman, who the King knew loved the man, and also knew that the man did not love her.

A few days pass, and finally the day arrives. The King watches as the man approaches the two doors. His daughter, who is seated next to him seems to be very focused. The man looks at both doors, and then back at the princess. In the corner off his eye, the king sees a small flash of movement from the princess’s direction. The King does not know to which door the princess showed, but it didn’t matter, as either way, the King would have his revenge. The man would either be torn to shreds by a tiger, or be trapped into a loveless marriage, where the man would suffer for the rest of his life. The man, looking more focused and confident walked over to the door on the right, and puts his hand on the doorknob. The King smiled, the man opened the door, and the confidence the man had shown opening the door quickly vanished, and out sprang the tiger. The man ran back, and right before the tiger got him, he looked at the princess, and through his pained expression, one could easily see what his was thinking: Why?

Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger”, is an exciting and shocking story, mostly because of its open ending. Rather than arriving at a resolution, the short story closes with an open ending, leaving readers guessing. The ending of the story was unusual and begun numerous discussions and controversies. Stockton left readers debating between two very hard choices. An answer to this infinitely confusing question is presented here, along with supporting statements. 

In the short story “ The Lady or the Tiger”, there is a semi-barbaric king. The king had a strange method for the man who had fallen in love with his daughter. This man was to choose between two doors. Behind one of the doors was a savage tiger who will likely jump upon him and tear him to shreds. Behind the other was a lady, deemed appropriate by the king, whom the man shall marry. Choosing the door containing the tiger would declare the man as guilty, and send him to his death. If the man chose the door with the lady, he would be proven innocent, and is to marry the woman instantly. Based on whatever door the man chose, it would determine whether he was guilty or innocent, and whether he should live or die. 

Once the barbaric king found out about his daughter’s lover, he was furious, and decided to punish the man. He sentenced the convict to the two-door method that was mentioned before. The princess that the convicted man loved was extremely beautiful, and has a similar barbaric personality to her father. When the important day came, hundreds of citizens filled the amphitheater, excited and ready to see the fate of the man. Before choosing a door, the man glanced at the princess, as though he was asking for help. She held her right hand on her lap, secretly telling the man to choose the door on the right. Earlier that day, the princess had used her power and status to find out what was behind both the doors. The man went to that door and decisively opened it. The story ends there, giving readers a choice to finish it, while leaving them wondering.

There are many clues in throughout the story that suggests that the door contained a lion. First of all, if the princess chose the door with the lady, she would have a living reminder of her bad choice. Seeing her enemy and her loved one be together everyday will surely inflict more pain on the princess than anything else. Some might say that if she kills her loved one, it would be a lot more painful than seeing him marry another woman. This may not be the case, because the princess believes in the afterlife. If she was confident they would be together even after death, then she would have no trouble killing the man she loved. Choosing the tiger door saves the princess from the pain of watching the man she loves marry another lady.

In the story, it says “This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.” This tells readers that the princess is as barbaric as her father. To be barbaric means to be cruel and uncivil. If she chose the door with the tiger, it most likely will not faze her as much as a normal person. Moreover, if the princess truly is similar to her father, she could be having the same thought process as him. The father thinks the lover is guilty and deserves to die. Of course, it is true that in the story is clearly stated that the two were close, but if the princess truly loved the man, she would not have had such a hard time choosing. If she truly loved the man, she would never want him to get hurt in any way. Even if she believed in afterlife, true love would overcome any beliefs that she had.

Any conclusions that readers come up with will take a lot of thought and consideration. Frank Stockton’s, “The Lady or the Tiger” is like maze that it yet to be finished. The author clearly states that the princess is similar to her father. She is a woman who wants to settle down her emotions, and get justice at the same time. The short story shows many clues that can help readers find a conclusion. As a result of these subtle hints, it is safe to say that the tiger was behind that door.

Would you let your lover perish at the claws of a vicious tiger, or let him be married to your sworn enemy? The Lady, or the Tiger?, by Frank R. Stockton is about a princess who had to make the decision for her forbidden lover. The question is, was it the lady or the tiger?

This story takes place in a semi-barbaric kingdom, where someone accused of a crime will be able to choose between two doors; one opens to a savage tiger while the other opens to a beautiful maiden whom you will marry immediately. This trial determines if one is guilty or innocent by chance, unlike modern times. This happened to the princess’s lover and he let her decide his fate as she knew what each door held. At the end of the story, we know that the princess pointed to the door on the right, but we don’t know what was behind it.

Before this event, the princess “had thought of nothing, night or day, but this great event and the various subjects connected with it.” Let’s say that the princess chose the one with the tiger. It’s stated that she loved her lover a lot, so why would she lead him to his death? However, the maiden behind one of the doors is one that the princess hates a lot, as the princess suspects she to steal her lover. Even if she doesn’t want him to die, he’ll marry another lady and they’ll still be separated from each other.

I believe that the princess chose the door with the tiger in it. Both of the doors would lead to her not being able to be with him again. If she chose the one with the maiden, she would still need to bear the pain of having her lover marry someone else. However, if she chose the one with the tiger, she’ll still grieve a lot but they will eventually be reunited in the afterlife. This kingdom is also “half-barbaric” so even though they aren’t as heartless, they still accept killing.

The content of the door on the right was never revealed so it is up to the readers to decide what the princess chose. Was it the lady … or the tiger?

Power and riches can turn a person from kind-hearted to cold, and from bad to ruthless. It can easily go to someone’s head and turn them into a person that they are not. In “The lady or the tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton, we are introduced to a king who was immediately described as “semi-barbaric.” Throughout this short story, the author describes how the king would throw any person or “criminal” in an arena and face them with a life or death situation. Either they could choose a door and be greeted with a beautiful maiden, or choose a different, identical door and be eaten by savage tigers. The king was semi-barbaric because of his immorality, biasness, and remorselessness.

The king was immoral because any person he deemed a criminal would be thrown in an arena. Even if that person was innocent, they could choose the door to the tiger. Both doors were bad options because the “criminal” had to marry the maiden. The king either forced the person into an unwanted marriage or an unwanted death. The king’s immorality would lead him to believe that it was okay to pluck a maiden out of her village and basically sacrifice herself for entertainment. Though she was not the one dying, there was a 50% chance that she had to give up her life because of the king.

Another reason that the king was semi-barbaric was because of his biasness. Sure, any father might be over-protective of their daughter, but to take the man interested in their daughter and throw them into an arena to not only be ridiculed by the public, but have a equal chance of dying or living an unhappy life is terrible. The king specifically chose the most ruthless, crazed tigers to be in the arena along with the most beautiful maiden in all the land. The king was biased against this man for liking his daughter, so he made sure that he would get the worst punishment regardless.

Lastly, the king was remorseless in all his actions. Considering how often the king must have punished people, that would mean that he also witnessed many people be eaten by tigers. Yet, he continues with these cruel and ruthless actions. He showed no remorse for targeting his daughter’s lover, and he never seemed to show remorse for any of the other men that he punished. Though all of the king’s actions were inexcusable, showing remorse would most likely make the reader more likely to forgive him. Villains turned good are very popular in all sorts of books, tv shows, and more. However, the king was a villain and stayed one.

In conclusion, the king from “ The Lady or The Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton was a cruel, ruthless, and semi-barbaric man. He plucked maidens and men from the street and forced unto them a chance at a terrible life. The story focused on a specific man: the man in love with the king’s daughter. The king was close with his daughter so he decided to pull all the stops to ensure that the man would suffer whether he chose the maiden or the hungry, savage tigers. Though us readers don’t actually know what happened to the man, because the author left the ending ambiguous, we can assume that either way, the man suffered; and it was all the king’s fault.

At the end of the short story, we all know that the princesses lover chose the right door. The question is, was that the door for the tiger, or the door for the bride? Well, she does not want to go to the tiger, as this passage shows, “she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!” (the lady, or the tiger) But she does not want her lover to chose the bride, either, as this passage shows,

“she
gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door
of the lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with
her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph; when she had seen him lead her forth, his whole
frame kindled with the joy of recovered life; when she had heard the glad shouts from the multitude,
and the wild ringing of the happy bells; when she had seen the priest, with his joyous followers,
advance to the couple, and make them man and wife before her very eyes; and when she had seen
them walk away together upon their path of flowers, followed by the tremendous shouts of the
hilarious multitude, in which her one despairing shriek was lost and drowned!” (the lady, or the tiger) These passages from the story show that, to her, both of the doors are bad, because she does not want her lover to die by the tiger, but she does not want him to marry the woman, either, because she wants him for himself. It is extremely hard for her to decide, as this passage shows,

“Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semibarbaric futurity?
And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood!” She is not sure, and as the story says, and even though she decided in an instant, it was after days and days of torture. (she did not want to decide) So anyway, if she is a more selfish person, who would not like to share her things, and would rather destroy them than share them, then she would probably have chosen the tiger, but if she is more selfless, and would share her things to not have them destroyed, she probably would have chosen the woman for her lover.

       

Mozart and Beethoven are both super amazing composers for music. But their styles and life is different. I mean in How they write their music and just their life story. 

Beethoven likes music that is very peaceful and steady and you can say “happy”. But when Beethoven writes his music, he has a style of writing his pieces “sad” and has emotion. When he wrote his song “Ode to Joy”. It is just the right fit to listen to when you are reading.This is true because “Ode to Joy” is very peaceful and calm.

Mozart wrote his songs he put a lot of loud bangs and impressive octaves, and was very emotional to some people. For example Requiem in D minor is a very “jumpy” piece and has a lot of emotions in the piece . So I would say that when Mozart writes his songs he thinks more of him and his life when he experiences the feeling of what this music feels.

  Now we talked about the different styles in Mozart and Beethoven. We all know that Music technically took over their lives, but during their life of becoming a musician was very challenging in a lot of ways. 

        Some similar things that Mozart and Beethoven have are they both are very very very talented in their music. They both started when they were little kids. But later when they grew up things started to change for them. Mozart wouldn’t really get accepted from many of the companies for music. Beethoven got very ill and later became death. 

Even though Mozart and Beethoven are super amazing and talented musicians. They also began a lot of struggle such as Mozart dying early in the 20s and Beethoven being death and very very sick and ill. Even though times are tough they still manage to write very nice songs and people all around the world enjoy there hard work.