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  • Essay / Analysis of We Don't Have the Right to Happiness - 1092

    and Mrs. A, who lost their marriage because Mr. A left his wife to pursue someone else, which will make him happier than before with his wife. Claire, the woman who speaks to Lewis on the subject, provides a perspective that Lewis presents to his audience, that people may have the right to be happy in a way that is right in the eyes of the law but which does not. does not make it morally right. . This opens up the comparison that Lewis makes that the right to happiness is as meaningful as the right to be six feet tall. This follows Lewis's thought and argument against Claire. Lewis presents this allegory in order to show a real situation to present to his audience how the world has become based on state law rather than moral law. Claire believes in the idea that Mr. A had the right to continue this new life with Mrs. B; although Lewis expounds on this belief by adding the idea that Mr. A might very well leave Mrs. B to pursue happiness with someone else. Mr. A and everyone else previously talked about, including Claire, in this story never made an impact since Lewis only talks about them; This leads me to believe that Lewis wrote about all of these characters in our fiction, in an attempt to present a common moral law that people tend to break. This allegory perfectly opens up the persuasion argument that Lewis then begins to talk about and which is the basis of this whole argument that humanity must change its ways so that we do not become morally