Analysis Of Lewis's Essay: The Right To Happiness

In an essay writer claims that the people within the world do not have the right to happiness. Let’s analyze his claim that why he believes that we have no right to happiness. In our daily life we meet so many people, some are happy and some are not happy, but we cannot assume that people are happy or not because it is not in their control. We need to reconsider what happiness is, from where it comes, and how truthfully we can attain it. In his article, Lewis described a story about a husband who divorced his wife for another woman, who in turn left her husband to marry this man. The first wife of a man, as a consequence, committed suicide. Lewis discussed the issue with one of his friends Clare. The opinion of a man and Clare are that man has “right to happiness” at …show more content…
Clare goes back and forth too much while specifying and putting down that being sexist or biased for happiness is the way to gain happiness, she simplifies what the “right to happiness” means to her. In Clare’s mind the happiness means simply and solely sexual happiness, maybe it is because woman like Clare had never used the word happiness in any other sense. Something, we are legally permitted to do, however the position of those who argued the “right to happiness” speaks of more than just a legal right. The man and Clare referred the “right to happiness” as more of a moral right. We do have a legal right to pursuit the happiness as long as we operate within the legal boundaries and don’t harm anyone else’s happiness or drive them over to the edge. What will happen when we pursue happiness outside of our moral frame work? The answer to this question is that lives we live and the happiness we pursue are put in harm’s way once we use all forces to achieve them. Lewis clearly rejecting the “right of happiness” solely defined by the Clare that only the sexual relationship is the “right of