Miah Ellison

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“True happiness consist not in the multitude of friends, but in the worst and choice”, by Ben Jonson. To say having happiness does not consist of having friends, but by making the special choice and decision of perfection. True happiness does not mean one have to have friends to be happy, but to be honestly happy with self. True happiness does not just fall out of the blue/sky, but by the content of character. Being happy and making the decision to be happy always take time to perfect. Being in a multitude of friends does consist of you to be happy with your surroundings. But by the content of judgment and greater understance of happiness will take you to a higher point in life. (The Alchemist)
In Ben’s early life it was somewhat rough as a child to conduct an educational life and trying to stay in civilization as a citizen. Ben always believed that you work hard and everything will pay off. While in school he worked under the leadership of his stepfather’s business as a bricklayer. Just looking back on time as one would work and trying to maintain school, it was not easy to handle all that stress, but back in 16th century there was not anything wrong about working while you are in school. Because the harder you work the more mature you will become and that’s what Ben Jonson succeed at. Later on in Ben’s childhood life he went back to school after returning home from the war and battle which he was in, he went to school to become an actor and playwright producer. (Ben Johnson in the Romantic Age)
Later on as years went by he started producing plays and poems, Ben worked hard on what he wanted to produce. In 1598 Ben Jonson produced his first official success “Every Man in His Humor” which this play was implying about how a person ...

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...ut to be absent from the body is to present with the lord. Time will not let you wait a minute late when it’s time for you to leave this earth to go to your eternal resting place and to see your creator’s face. It’s time to go home and that’s what Benjamin Jonson did, he went on home to be with his creator. http://www.bartleby.com/101/190.html Works Cited

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Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age. Oxford University Press Release, 2005.
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Bloom, Harold. Ben Jonson. New York: Chelsea House Publishers 1987
Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist. New York: New Mermaid. 1991 Selma – Dallas County Public library 822.3
Jonson, Ben. Every Man out of his Humor. Library of Alexandria, 1988 Selma – Dallas County Public library 822.3
Jonson, Ben. The New Ion: The Revels Plays. Manchester University Press, 2001 Selma – Dallas County Public Library 822.3

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