Happiness: A Blessing or a Curse? (Essay Sample)

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HAPPINESS: A BLESSING OR A CURSE
Happiness is the epitome of the beauty that life offers and is every individual's solemn wish. There is no better feeling than encountering both happiness and freedom and are considered the two things that are worth dying for. What if they were? The sudden realization that happiness is what one would crave for and would somehow be the limitless way to freedom becomes apparent when the latter walks in through the craved door of existence. The story elaborated below showcases the different scenarios in which happiness in its most pure form combined with a long wish of freedom would eventually create a path to an inevitable end.
Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour introduces us to the main character of Louise Mallard, a fragile soul that had a heart condition and was married to one Brently Mallard. The story kick-starts, basing emphasis on her heart condition that was a cause for worry among her family and friends and more often than not was careful not to cause her sudden grief (Chopin, p.6). However, on a fateful day, the latter would come knocking as her husband is thought to have died in a train crash. As such, her sister, Josephine, would then reveal to hear in hints and broken fragments of sentences of this devastating news beside her counterpart Richard who was standing by if the report was too much for her fragile heart to bear (Chopin, p.6). Picking up the details of the information within it, she wept in her sister's arms in pain, and utter grief before the storm of sorrow waived itself from her, and