Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And To Kill A Mockingbird

Charles Spurgeon has once said: “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness”. Finding happiness is everyone’s final destination in life, but being able to truthfully own happiness, there is always going to be letting go of troubles and celebrating what you already own. Through the roughe journey of life, we are able to balance happiness and compromise to an equal extent and that’s where the meaning of happiness lay. When it is pursued consciously and ruthly, for an instant that may seem real, however, the pursuit will ultimately compromise happiness, not gain it. It connects deeply with Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird along with William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. In both texts, the authors similarly
Through the priorities of oneself, sacrificial actions and narrow-minded thoughts, Shakespeare reveals how even when love causes impracticality for any compromise to show through, the unwillingness to accommodate must be held back during inordinate times and rationally thought of. Since we can not possibly have the perfect way in things from life, we need to learn how to successfully navigate through life finding things that we can manage with.

From To Kill A Mockingbird, when Atticus Finch was first introduced with his personal values, and beliefs on justice, it is obvious to identify that he pursues happiness in a meaningful manner but also teaches the reader by speaking to Scout, his daughter about compromising when we do not have the desired. This was
Others who lust for selfish contentment may end up with unavoidable consequences. In the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, The two protagonists Romeo, a Montague and Juliet, a Capulet who is also the daughter of Old Montague’s enemy was facing entanglement between their love and family history. They can not just disregard their families’ past to pursue their own love and pleasure but as the story moved along, we have noticed that the love and true affection that they emit places a priority over the feud between the families as indicated by a “Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montague, what is montague? Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”. The two young lovers obtain a selfish mindset as they are influenced by the power and strength of their love especially when Juliet commits to kill herself after witnessing Romeo’s dead body: “Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!This is thy sheath”. With their impulse based actions, it lead to irreparable conditions which made the play end in tragedy, however, by doing so they have attained the happiness they wished for at the moment. The selfish and egoistic decisions provided satisfaction in a way that promoted the pursuing of happiness without limitations but Shakespeare also intends for us to understand the deep underlying