The Pursuit Of Happiness In Romeo And Juliet, By Harper Lee

William James once said that “Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action." Everyone living in a society we live in today are putting in efforts to obtain happiness. Many individuals will pursue that happiness while others will compromise it. To achieve happiness, everyone has their own methods, but sometimes it will not work, when you realize you can’t always have what you want. In the text To Kill A Mockingbird and the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, Harper Lee and Shakespeare developed the idea that every individual pursue or compromise happiness differently because we have different beliefs and values that shapes our identities. Compromise can seem like a negative thing, but in some situations it is crucial to happiness. It is not possible to always everything you want in life but the desire of pursuing happiness provide individuals with more satisfaction than compromising happiness.

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Happiness comes in many different ways depending on an individual. When you have to compromise to acquire happiness, it does not always end with good results. This idea was developed in the play Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare when the ending was not was we were anticipating. To acquire the happiness they wanted, Juliet faked her death to avoid marrying Paris and run away with Romeo. When Juliet tried to compromise her happiness she never thought about possible consequences. After discovering Romeo dead, Juliet said “Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath.” This quote represents how when trying to compromise happiness, results are not always satisfying. In this case, if Juliet had to fake her death to acquire happiness, it is not worth it. If she had a stronger desire to pursuing happiness with Romeo, death would not be how this story