Happiness is the Key to Living a Satisfying Life
In a majority of literature, the old man character is usually not content with his success and is unhappy to instigate the readers to feel sympathetic. The characters from Naguib Mahfouz’s short story, Happy Man, and T.S Elliot’s poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, both raises the question from the reader, is any man truly happy? The two characters are not living satisfyingly to their full potential, therefore, causing them to question their existence, to be alone, and miserable with their lives.
First, both of the old men do experience events in their lives to cause them to be alone. However, they decide to stay alone by choice. J. Alfred Prufrock does not socialize with women due to …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock is what the happy man will be like when he crashes from his euphoric state. Since the happy man’s “happiness” exhibits symptoms that also coincide with depression. Therefore, he will be riding a high for a certain time, but it will not last forever and when it finally ends he will crash because his “happiness” is a sickness. In addition, the longer he is in the state of happiness the larger effect the crash will have on him. This relates to J. Alfred Prufrock because he is crashing due to his old age as he states, “I grow old… I grow old…” and is reflecting on his regrets of what he could have done differently in life. Therefore, the crash is going to continue the men’s unhappiness towards their …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock are very similar in character, they are both older men who are not content with their lives. Both men are at a point in their lives where they find themselves detach from society and wish to be alone due to being misunderstood. As a result of the happy man’s disruptive and newly found “happiness” that is similar to depression and that he will eventually crash from the high to have a similar demeanor as J, Alfred Prufrock’s. Lastly, Prufrock and the happy man are older men they are still in the process of finding their true selves, therefore, making them question their purpose in life in the process. It is clear that the men are forlorn with their lives and no one is truly content with their lives because it seems that people have too little yet never enough to be completely
In a majority of literature, the old man character is usually not content with his success and is unhappy to instigate the readers to feel sympathetic. The characters from Naguib Mahfouz’s short story, Happy Man, and T.S Elliot’s poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, both raises the question from the reader, is any man truly happy? The two characters are not living satisfyingly to their full potential, therefore, causing them to question their existence, to be alone, and miserable with their lives.
First, both of the old men do experience events in their lives to cause them to be alone. However, they decide to stay alone by choice. J. Alfred Prufrock does not socialize with women due to …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock is what the happy man will be like when he crashes from his euphoric state. Since the happy man’s “happiness” exhibits symptoms that also coincide with depression. Therefore, he will be riding a high for a certain time, but it will not last forever and when it finally ends he will crash because his “happiness” is a sickness. In addition, the longer he is in the state of happiness the larger effect the crash will have on him. This relates to J. Alfred Prufrock because he is crashing due to his old age as he states, “I grow old… I grow old…” and is reflecting on his regrets of what he could have done differently in life. Therefore, the crash is going to continue the men’s unhappiness towards their …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock are very similar in character, they are both older men who are not content with their lives. Both men are at a point in their lives where they find themselves detach from society and wish to be alone due to being misunderstood. As a result of the happy man’s disruptive and newly found “happiness” that is similar to depression and that he will eventually crash from the high to have a similar demeanor as J, Alfred Prufrock’s. Lastly, Prufrock and the happy man are older men they are still in the process of finding their true selves, therefore, making them question their purpose in life in the process. It is clear that the men are forlorn with their lives and no one is truly content with their lives because it seems that people have too little yet never enough to be completely