How Does Ressalas Obtain Happiness

Finding True Happiness In life, every person is on their own personal quest for ultimate happiness. IN The History of Ressalas, Ressalas is a prince in a glorious kingdom. However, he is stowed away from the real world in a vacated valley, sealed off from the world beyond the mountains that surround it. The tale portrays Ressalas as unhappy in the one place where there are no true worries, yet he wants to travel the real world to have a better understanding and appreciation of his position and placement in the private place of Abissinia. Throughout his journey, Ressalas shows why he is unhappy, how his journey helps achieve happiness, how people pursue happiness differently, and what ultimately Ressalas finds at the end of his journey. Ressalas lives in a private beautiful kingdom protected from the evils of the outer world. Ressalas is unhappy living in the palace and though the palace adheres to all the desires of the royalty in the palace, he feels that he doesn’t want anything and he doesn’t desire anything of the palace. Through many attempts of and talks with his former instructors, Ressalas still could find no happiness
Ressalas says “Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification” from where he believes he can find his happiness beyond (Johnson 11). Ressalas and Imlac work by digging a tunnel through the mountain by inspiration from rabbits digging burrows into the mountain. To help pursue his happiness, Ressalas tales Imlac along with him and uses him as a guide to help understand the people the group meets and learns what different groups of people view as their own happiness. As he finds what happiness are viewed from the many people he meets, he sees the problems that come from those people's pursuit of that