Wittgenstein Research Paper

Happiness in our society is harder to find than in the society of Fahrenheit 451, but once achieved, it is a true happiness, one which grows upon its seeds, and sprouts a great and fulfilling life for that person. The average citizen in our society believes themselves to be happy, but in reality, they too are replacing their true desires and childhood dreams with superficial entertainment and mindless activities, which resembles the society which is portrayed in Fahrenheit 451.

Whitsett, North Carolina is a town that many have never heard of, yet it is my hometown. Situated in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, Whitsett is located directly between Greensboro and Burlington, North Carolina in eastern Guilford County. Having moved from a house located in the city limits of Greensboro, NC at the age of three, Whitsett is practically all I have ever known as “home.” My parents decided to move to Whitsett because they were able to find a larger and more suitable house with the arrival of my younger brother, Landon, in the year 1999. With almost 19 years having gone by, my family still lives in the same house today. Our house is located in the neighborhood development known as “Stoney Creek.” Importantly, this is the

Wittgenstein was born in 1889, in Vienna, Austria. He has 7 siblings, and his family was extremely wealthy. Growing up Wittgenstein had a stutter. Which peaked his interest in communication and language itself. Three of his four brothers had committed suicide and Wittgenstein had also suffered with suicidal thoughts. He was interested in aeronautics, experimenting with kites, but when he met Bertrand Russell at Cambridge university he forgot all of that. Russell read

Happiness is a fundamental right that all human beings are allowed to pursue of their own accord by the government. Yet, imagine a society in which all the thinking is done for their citizens, feelings are gotten rid of before they could be felt and it was encouraged to not accept the downsides of life. Throughout the pages of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he describes the lives of many characters. Specifically their relationship with the emotion of happiness. Bradbury brings to the attention of the reader of whether the characters are happy or distracted. A person cannot be happy if they do are not honest with themselves and if they do not feel or think for themselves. Through the experiences of the characters spoken about, it will be seen how happiness is not felt and lived, because their distractions take place.

People can be happy if and only if they try to be. True happiness is spending time with others, and having fun together. Something that involves other people or other things other than themselves is what true emotion is. People who do not try to experience the world are not the best at being happy. Feeling emotion is the thing that a human must always have, and it makes a human have personality. If a human does not have personality, then they do not have much emotion either. People always have personality, even if no one else sees it. Happiness is not expressed much in Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, and human nature can compare with it, but there is still

A person’s happiness is completely different than that of the person next to them. In Fahrenheit 451, the society is given the idea that happiness is found in the fast life. Students crash cars, crack windows, and drive recklessly for fun. Schooling in this society is not even in the realm of learning. Instead, it is filled with sports, electronics, and everything but an education. Death is a quick cremation instead of a proper funeral and mourning. Adults not only have poor relationships with their spouses, but also their children. Despite all these things, to the people of the Fahrenheit 451 society, the weak human connections and speedy existence

Happiness, to a certain extent goes with internal human experience. To be happy is to feel well, either through “good” experiences or a “good” lifestyle. The authorities in Fahrenheit 451, incorporated this definition of happiness into the lifestyle of the society. They provided civilians with, “fun parks to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place… go out in cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts” according to Clarisse (Bradbury, 27). The authorities provided activities that evoked exhilaration and appealed to darker instincts within the civilians giving them a sense of satisfaction, when in reality it is the opposite. Mildred embodies

Ray Bradbury defines happiness as intelligence and portrays this in his book Fahrenheit 451 through the main character, Montag, and his experiences on his quest for knowledge. Since most people have so little knowledge in the beginning of the book, the overall happiness in the world is minimal. After coming home from work, he finds his wife, Mildred, overdosed on sleeping pills and he has to bring her to the hospital. While he is there the highly unqualified “doctors” explain to him that they “‘get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had these special machines built” (13). This is one of the first events in the book which makes Montag realize how unhappy the world is because even with so little knowledge,

I would like to tell you a bit about myself: I am a social person, who loves to help. I try to invest in the studies as much as I can, yet I also work to provide for myself. In the future, I would like to work in the field of medicine, and in the army I would like to serve in the border guard unit.

    Dan Goldberg, a keynote speaker and coach, once wrote “Happiness is a state of considerable pleasure and cheer... Contentment is different. It is a feeling of peace with one's self and one's life, an ease of mind and satisfaction with one's state of being.” We see many examples of different variations of this in both the real world and in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. We see characters who are happy but not content, characters who are content but definitely not happy and finally we see people that are fully bathed in both happiness and contentment.

Happiness is many things to different people. People have referred to the pursuit of happiness for hundreds of years. In the book, My Antonia by Willa Cather, the main character, Jim Burden, quotes happiness as “…to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” Antonia Shimerda, the person who impacted Jim’s life directly and indirectly for all of his life would view happiness in a different way.

The philosopher Aristotle once wrote, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” This famous quote compels people to question the significance of their joy, and whether it truly represents purposeful lives they want to live. Ray Bradbury, a contemporary author, also tackles this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451, which deals heavily with society's view of happiness in the future. Through several main characters, Bradbury portrays the two branches of happiness: one as a lifeless path, heading nowhere, seeking no worry, while the other embraces pure human experience intertwined together to reveal truth and knowledge.

According to Storm Jameson, “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” Jameson suggests that happiness is not just having fun, but it is to be present in the moment and to make connections with others. Happiness is rarely found in the novel Fahrenheit 451, because this joyless society defines “fun” as driving with the need for speed and with an intention of killing small animals and people or the deadening white noise of endless television viewing. The novel Fahrenheit 451 conveys this very idea as the protagonist Guy Montag and others in his society are unable to achieve full happiness. Author Ray Bradbury suggests the truth of Jameson’s statement primarily through

He soon began experimenting with technique. His main concern was with tricks of language. He was finding out just what he could do. His use of language has made him the greatest figure in English, and perhaps in any literature. At the same time,

The connections between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Soren Kierkegaard as philosophers are not at all immediately obvious. On the surface, Wittgenstein deals with matters concerning the incorrect use of philosophical language and Kierkegaard focuses almost exclusively on answering the question 'how to become a Christian'. But this account belies deeper structural similarities between these men's important works. Thus, this paper suggests that their methods, rather than exclusively content, contain a strong parallel on which a natural and hopefully fruitful examination of their work can be based.