HSC Subjects Each MBTI Would (Stereotypically) Take
ISTJ: 2U English, 4U Maths, Business Studies, Ancient History, History Extension
ISFJ: 2U English, 2U Maths, CAFS, Hospitality, Modern History
INFJ: 4U English, 2U Maths, Legal Studies, Languages
INTJ: 3U English, 3U Maths, Economics, Physics, Chemistry
ISTP: 2U English, 3U Maths, Timber, Engineering Studies, PDHPE
ISFP: 2U English, 2U Maths, Music, Visual Arts, Biology
INFP: 4U English, 2U Maths, Music 2, Music Extension, Languages
INTP: 3U English, 3U Maths, Chemistry, Science Extension, Legal Studies
ESTP: 2U English, 2U Maths, PDHPE, Business Studies, Engineering Studies
ESFP: 2U English, 2U Maths, Dance, PDHPE, Hospitality
ENFP: 3U English, 2U Maths, Music, Legal Studies, Biology
ENTP: 3U English, 2U Maths, Legal Studies, Physics, Languages
ESTJ: 2U English, 4U Maths, Business Studies, Software Design & Development
ESFJ: 2U English, 2U Maths, CAFS, Hospitality, PDHPE
ENFJ: 3U English, 2U Maths, Legal Studies, Modern History, Society & Culture
ENTJ: 2U English, 4U Maths, Ancient History, Chemistry, Legal Studies
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Franz Schubert: the enigma of the man and the musician
If I were to identify the distinctive emotion that pervades Schubert’s music, I would say that it is a tragic but reconciled love: love not only for people in all their many predicaments, but also love for music, and especially for the music that was brought to him by his muse….When I think of Schubert’s death, and lament that he did not live to the age of Mozart, I think of the love that he longed for and never obtained, and wonder yet more at a musical legacy that contains more consolation for our loneliness than any other human creation.
- Sir Roger Scruton on Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
The story of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was one of the most tragic in classical music. Schubert died young. Really young. Younger than almost any other famous composer - younger than Mozart, Chopin, or Mendelssohn. He contracted syphilis at 25 and died at 31, which limited his life in many ways but also drove him to be an incredibly prolific composer. His personal life is shrouded in mystery and yet it greatly influenced his music. 2022 marks the 225th anniversary of his birth and perhaps then it’s good time to discuss the man and his music. Can unveiling his life bring into light the tortured genius of his musical compositions? Let us see.
Schubert wasn’t very keen on marriage for many possible reasons, perhaps because he didn’t have enough money, or because he was gay, or because he thought marriage was a bourgeois institution created to force conformity - or none of those things. In any case, he was a bachelor who lived a life of his own choosing. Schubert’s 20s were a lot like many artists’ and other urban dwellers’ 20s today: he was broke most of the time and lived with roommates, he hung out in pubs and drank heavily, he flirted with leftist political movements, and, most importantly, he had a close but ever changing group of friends to explore art, politics, religion, literature, and, of course, music.
Born in 1797 in Vienna, Schubert grew up with a strict schoolteacher father who encouraged his musical pursuits. Schubert first left home at the age of 11 to serve as a choirboy in the imperial court chapel, a position that included a scholarship to an elite school (“the principal Viennese boarding school for non-aristocrats” according to Grove Music Online). During Schubert’s five years there, he met the first members of what would become his adult circle of friends. Their help later proved instrumental in getting him out of his father’s house and off the path to becoming a schoolteacher, a low-level civil servant job, like his father.
Schubert didn’t just come from a strict family, he also lived in a rather strict society. In the aftermath of two successive defeats by Napoleon during Schubert’s childhood, Austria reverted back to a repressive political regime. He spent his entire adult life in a society with strict government censorship and powerful secret police, and he chafed under the limits of his freedom at various times. In 1816, a year after the passage of a law that barred men of lower social classes from marrying unless they had sufficient income, Schubert wrote a tortured diary entry disparaging marriage and the monarchy.
In 1820, Schubert attended a party that was raided by the police. He spent the night in jail, and his friend the political activist Johann Senn was jailed for over a year and then exiled to his native Austrian Tyrol. Later on, Schubert worked on the opera Der Graf von Gleichen even though he knew its plot about bigamy had no chance of making it past the censors.
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Seong Gi-hun: ESFP | Squid Game
Dominant Se: Gi-hun immediately works out how to pass the honeycomb game after his sweat drips onto the honeycomb, helping him realise that he could melt it by licking it. When he has no clue what to do during a game, he goes along with Sang-woo’s suggestions without hesitation such as splitting up for the honeycomb game and taking three steps forward in the Tug-of-War game, despite being in the front. Outside the game, Gi-hun is known to regularly gamble and drink, despite being 455 million won in debt. He asks his friends (and even some loan sharks he ready owes) for cash, promising he'll pay them back later, which he doesn't seem to be good at doing.
Auxiliary Fi: The dark and unforgiving nature of the first game is enough to convince Gi-hun to vote to stop the game. As the series goes on, Gi-hun starts to clash with Sang-woo about the latter’s decisions as they go against his moral code. Sang-woo’s cruel actions turn the two against each other due to their reversed function stacks (Sang-woo’s being Ni-Te-Fi-Se) and fuels Gi-hun’s temporary intention to kill him after the dinner party before being stopped by Sae-byeok.
Tertiary Te: With the desire to win the game (that turned out to be the marble game), he initially ditches 001 in search for a younger and more able-bodied player. Just as he is about to lose the marble game, he uses 001’s dementia to his advantage and lies his way through the game, and gets overly frustrated when 001 gets distracted and starts wandering away as time is almost over.
Inferior Ni: During the game of ddakji with the salesman, Gi-hun gets so absorbed in winning the game so that he can the Salesman back (Se), that he forgets that he was playing for the money in the first place. Additionally, he successfully guesses the passcode to his mum’s credit card and bets on winning horses based on his hunches.
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