Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Happiness


In Fences happiness is portray in many ways. Rose is dealing with the betrayal and how dishonest troy was with her. She keeps all of her emotions in without overacting and even though troy was the most loving husband she went on and try to be happy that she even has him. “Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes too” (Wilson 70). She prefer making her family happier than herself. Troy has been getting away with all the problem such as sleeping with other woman. “It’s just… She gives me a different idea… a different understanding about myself” (Wilson 68). Troy doesn't much care about how his actions would hurt his family but rather what makes him feel good and that was the main reason why he went on to sleep with this woman because he felt like he could be himself around her rather than worrying about the house and what needs to be fixed. Cory happiness is portray by him wanting/fighting for a spot to get into the football team but the only thing that in his way is his father. He feels like his dreams are being crushed by him even though he knows that his father would just want him to have a better future than he did.

In our society, happiness is defined by giving and receiving love and kindness from people. In today world happiness is must things to have. “Happiness is a priority. I believe that happiness is the most important aspect in our lives, what people strive for. Mostly what makes people happy is doing what they love and happiness would mean being selfish sometimes and to want something for yourself just like troy did, he went on to sleep with this woman because he felt a happiness for himself rather than doing something for his family.


In the play fences and what society definition of happiness is similar in some ways. For example rose wants her family to be happy which today people want that for their family. Troy is happy with providing the essential needs for his family. The main difference is that in today’s world people are wanting to get as much money as they could to make themselves happy but in reality that’s not true. Buying extravagant things isn't going to make you happy because those materials are going to be done but in the play fences he believes that happiness is what he does for his family and that should be enough for them to know. 

1 comment:

  1. I agreed with when you said that she preferred to make her family happy rather than herself because Rose stayed with Troy mostly because of their family, while Troy cheated on her because the responsibility of a family was too much for him. I also liked how you said happiness in our society means being selfish for what you want and how you connected it back to Troy was perfect since that is exactly what he was doing.

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