In the texts Fence
happiness means do what you have to do to succeed in your life and enjoy it,
even if this collides with other people happiness; for example for Cory
happiness is playing football, but his father does not want him to do it so he
has do against him to be happy with his life. For Troy instead being happy
means cheat on Rose to have the feeling of freedom that she can’t give him
anymore, this will hurt his wife but to be happy he has to do it, even if this
will have consequences on their life as husband and wife.
Our society represent happiness as the main reason
of life, if you are not happy you have to do everything to change it and be
happy; this is probably a good way to live, having happiness as the only goal,
but is not always what we have to do. Many times we have to put other things in
front of our happiness, even someone else happiness, and then think about ourselves
and our own pleasure. Having the right of being happy is what we are used to
think. “I did it because I wasn't happy, I needed to do it”, is something that
many people says, but is not our right be happy against everything. It is our
right to do whatever we can do to be happy, but we also have to think of the
rest of the people that are around us, what makes them happy or what can hurt
them.
The version of happiness that the society try to
portray and the version that is represented in this text are very similar, both
are represented as a right, as something that we have to have to succeed in our lives. But the version of happiness
that we meet every day in real life is not the same one, we have to fight for
it, we have to conquer it, and sometimes we have to put it behind someone else
happiness, because this is what is important in life: make people that you love
happy and enjoy it with them, not against them.
I strongly agree when you said "“I did it because I wasn't happy, I needed to do it”, is something that many people says, but is not our right be happy against everything," this is a great point and something that is very common for someone to say. I agree that people do anything they can do achieve happiness because it is a right that we have.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that we strive to not only make ourselves happy, but also the people around us and the people we love happy.
You brought up very good points.
i agree with your prompt, mostly because of the connection to society. it is true that we have to think of other peoples happiness and how we can affect them, but we also need to think of how we can improve their happiness also.we see this by those who have established charities to help those in need. This in not negatively impacting those who have happiness already, but gives happiness to those who have nothing.
ReplyDeletebut there is also the case where happiness is something someone already has even when they have nothing and someone else tries to take it away. we see this with many of those who need charity help, and others that don't agree with how those people are happy and tries to take it away from them so the others can give their version of happiness. i only have one question for you, how can happiness affect other positively or negatively?
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ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed reading your article. When speaking about Troy and his happiness being a right, it really does correlate with what the book is trying to show us, that happiness can come from a multitude of places, some of them wrong, such as Troy's affair with Rose, and some of them right, spending time with friends and family.
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