D. H. Lawrences You Touched Me and Nietzches The Use...

Compare Happiness and Life Between D. H. Lawrences You Touched Me and Friedrich Nietzches The Use and Abuse of History Taken From The Twilight Of the Idols INTRODUCTION In this paper, I wont stick to only one topic. I will compare different topics, such as happiness and life between two romantic writers, D. H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche from D. H. Lawrences You touched me and Friedrich Nietzches The use and abuse of history taken from The twilight of the Idols. I will start talking about life and happiness by giving my own little definition of each of these two terms. LIFE Life: one word, many meanings. Life: one word, one precious thing. We see life in a total different way by the two writers.†¦show more content†¦He (Nietzshe) claims that [life in any true sense is absolutely impossible without forgetfulness]. He also says something about death. [And when death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself]. He also mentions a universal law about living things. [A living thing can only be healthy, strong and productive within a certain horizon: if it be incapable of drawing one round itself, or too selfish to lose its own view in anothers, it will come to an untimely end.] HAPPINESS Happiness: everybodys ultimate goal. Unfortunately, happiness is very hard goal to reach. D. H. Lawrence demonstrate the failure of reaching happiness through money and other goods. Emmie and Matilda were two girls of a rich man. But these two girls were not quite happy. They couldnt get married because they were expecting too much of men. Their (Matilda and Emmie) minds were based on money or valuable goods, restricting them from a lot of things. Hadrian was not a rich kid but he seemed to be happy the way he was. He wanted freedom and thats how he was happy. The two girls were captives of their rich lives. Hadrian understood that happiness wasnt about money, but about other superficial things, such as freedom and love. When Matilda touched Hadrian, Hadrian suddenly