There's More To Life Then Happiness Rhetorical Analysis

Humans strive to be happy in life, and it is the natural motivation for everyone to live and breathe. If you are not happy, then your automatic purpose is to make life happy. Is that the real reason though? In There’s more to Life Then Happiness, Emily Smith says there is more to life then to just being happy. She says that there are deeper meanings to life and happiness, and how everyone has different purposes to live for. Smith uses three types of rhetoric to show how life has more definition and meaning then to live for pleasure and happiness. She uses Victor Frankl as her main focus of evidence as to why there is more to life than happiness. She uses his story in an inspirational way to show people that it is in fact true that there is …show more content…
There is a deeper meaning to why humans live and strive to do things on a day to day basis to long term purpose. Viktor Frankl is used in which he finds purpose of his life, and it doesn’t have to do with pleasure. He finds his meaning of life to help others through pain, and having himself suffer with people in order to make the quality of life better for other people. He could be happy and live a perfect life of happiness, but prefers to have self-sacrifice for others benefit. If a person is living for happiness as the reason of life, they are not truly happy, but will always seek more happiness and not be content. If a person has meaning like Frankl, they are satisfied with life and find happiness through other means. Happiness that might not be pleasurable, but having content inside them that satisfies why they are alive. She also uses a real word psychological experiment that was with 400 Americans. The outcome is that people who had something to live for were “more satisfied with life” but may not have had as much short term “happiness” as those who were living strictly for happiness. Her tone is if you have more meaning to life if you are a giver, and have a more helpful attitude, and vice