Christian represents all of the God-fearing humanity on our journey to meet our King. He encounters several characters along the way, some encourage him on his quest, while other’s bring fear and doubt upon him. Every person, however, is crucial in the story to developing Christian’s own character. Every encouraging character brings confidence and devotion to Christian, while all the pessimistic, cunning characters he crosses, arise in him a passion for his task and a self-assurance beyond what others may say about his journey. Joy is a character that both leads and follows and can be elated or sad. Joy is a foundational characteristic and whatever is built upon her, is completely different to whatever could be built without Joy. Joy does not change the things of life, but she …show more content…
Happiness is a characteristic meant to be felt during an exhilaration brought by an event, but is not meant to be felt always. Joy is often confused as Happy because society thinks that when a feeling of hope or optimistic vision is felt, that an event must have caused this occurrence, however Joy is beyond an experience, and is an ever-dwelling knowledge that travels beyond feeling. Joy is in Christian’s story always even if she does not appear so. Joy acts as a silent foundational friend, but in times of need, Joy always presents herself to Christian and guides him. She is expressed differently throughout his journey and his many, ranging feelings. Accompanying Christian during his ordinary moments, Joy is there to let his high spirits soar and to further encourage his excitement. She is present to walk beside him as his friend. In silent times, Joy trots behind Christian to keep him traveling onwards and calms him with her still presence. Times often come joy goes unnoticed, but if Joy were to leave, Christian would know. He would tremble backwards and not have Joy as his shield, or he would walk aimlessly without a purpose or
Joy is an enforcer who contributes to the "Party" by sacrificing his body in taking chronic beatings. He is a short man with a disfigured face. He is typified by some as not too bright and insane by others; he is very pugnacious, as he is willing to fight anyone.
Throughout the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan convey’s different mother-daughter relationships from each point of view. Joseph Campbell, a well known American Mythologist, in his interview “The Power of Myth” describes a true hero. In their conversation Campbell states “A hero is someone who moves out of a society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, or original experience” (3). Campbell is explaining how a hero goes from their original world into the unknown, the “Dark Forest”. He uses “World of fire” as a metaphor for the new experience you undergo. The Hero's Journey consist of eight steps, within these eights steps you change from a
One of the major trials that Christian experiences is when he is in the Village of Morality when he is faced with the temptation to end his journey. When Christian is in the Village of Morality, he is introduced to Mr. Worldly Wiseman, a kind man who, being that he is a nonbeliever cannot fathom why Christian left his family and home to go on the journey that God has sent him on. Mr. Worldly Wiseman tells Christian that his journey for the Lord will end in nothing but death and he should just stay in the Village of Morality where he and his family
Have you ever felt like you never wanted something to end? That feeling could possibly be the feeling of happiness. Happiness can not be described like other words. It is more complicated than just a simple sentence. Would a single sentence describe a person, with all their emotions and personal experiences? Just like people some words are complex and can’t be described by a concrete definition. These words are deeper, provoking thoughts and feelings to come to the surface. For me, happiness is more than simple words. Happiness is the joy of being with friends and family, seeing the joy in others, and being content with life.
Quote: Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity-Rollo May
Christian begins his journey in a very hopeless state, desperate for a rescue from his cursed future. Right from the very beginning of the ageless book, Christian is found outside of his home reading a part of the bible and being filled with despair. Upon his back is a visible burden, heavy and weighing him down. Even as he begins and continues his quest for salvation, the weight upon his back grows heavier and heavier.
Happiness: a mental or emotional state of well-being defined defined by positive or pleasant emotions. It is a thing many humans search for, but seem to have trouble finding. Philosopher John Stuart Mill is correct when he believes that happiness should not be a direct goal; happiness should come naturally without having to search for it.
Happiness is a common emotion that provides a positive and lifted lifestyle. Many people think happiness is handed around, that happiness comes from a lucky draw in life, as if it was a game. However people actually choose to be happy by living and thinking in a positive way that creates happiness for them.
While Christian had companions during his journey, none of them were with Christian from beginning to end. Once Pliable, one of Christian’s neighbors from the City of Destruction, fell into the Slough of Despond in the early parts of their travels, Pliable “became so discouraged by that experience that he refused to go any farther,” (Bunyan 25). Faithful, a good, honest christian, was burned at the stake for his beliefs after travelling quite a ways with Christian. Fortunately, Faithful’s untimely demise and unrelenting trust in God converted one man, Hopeful, into a believer. Hopeful joined Christian in his pilgrimage and completed the journey with him to the Celestial City. If Loyal were with Christian, she would never abandon him intentionally and she would aid him in his journey in many ways. Loyal would complete the journey with Christian and Hopeful to the Celestial City without ever leaving Christian’s
The Buddha taught that happiness is one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment. But what is happiness? Dictionaries say happiness is a range of emotions, from contentment to joy.
The Rood experiences many common earthly feelings such as embarrassment at being cut down to humility at being chosen to hold the one and only Christ. This develops into an eternal spiritual connection as he develops a loyalty and respect for Him and is, therefore, honored to “stand fast” for Christ. The Rood tells his story so that the Dreamer and the reader can understand that Christ’s suffering and resurrection have provided forgiveness for mankind’s sins. Hope will allow them to live in spiritual grace or as the author says, “to live in glory, when their Lord returned, the Eternal King to His own country.” The Rood presents a truth for living in the physical world by commanding both the Dreamer and the reader to “tell others the events you have seen.” Each person must “seek His kingdom” during their time on
It is essentially a fulfillment of our desires and goals either superficial or sublime. Happiness is bound not only to emotional but physical, intellectual and aesthetic pleasures of life. It is the root cause of every decision an individual takes. There is no set philosophical definition of happiness yet according to Aristotle, happiness is the one thing you can choose for itself and that everything else is chosen for the sake of happiness.
Happiness, something that everyone strives for, but not everyone achieves. Happiness is intangible, it’s a feeling. There is no pill to take, or spell that will make magically make people happy. In “ If you're happy, and you know it” by Kwame Appiah he said, Happiness is a feeling, you are happy if you think you are happy.”(449). To me that means happiness is just a state of mind. Anyone can be happy if they put themselves into that state of happiness. I personal have a hard time being in a happy state of mind all the time, dealing with school, family, having anxiety it’s difficult to stay happy.
According to Webster dictionary the word Happiness in defined as Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy. People when they think of happiness, they think about having to good feeling inside. There are many types of happiness, which are expressed in many ways. Happiness is something that you can't just get it comes form your soul. Happiness is can be changed through many things that happen in our every day live.
Happiness is a feeling that cannot be broken if strong enough, no matter how much sadness or hate is around you. Happiness can come from the smallest thing, for instance, music makes me happy and can easily change my mood, or when I am doing something I love my mood is easily changed. For others it could be whenever you do something well, or right and get recognition for it. It is the easiest feeling to be spread and given out but often neglected and forgotten about which is something we should all be more aware