Articles Analysis Essay on Finding Happiness: Discourse & You Rang

Introduction

The paper will focus on two sources whose major theme is happiness. The first source is known as Discourse on Happiness from the previous reading, whose author is Emilie du Chatelet. Discourse on Happiness offers a record of what people understand to be happiness, mainly, the difficulty to get happy; however, the truth as per the source's revelation is that it will take years to figure it out eventually. The second one is You Rang? Written by John Davidson with a look into the mastering of the art this time when serving the rich. The source illustrates how people in their quest for greener pastures left what appeared as not lucrative ventures to venture into roles that involved serving the rich through responsibilities such as house managers. The two sources share common themes, and the body of the essay will offer significant information on the shared ones. To begin with, the subject of good versus evil comes out in both articles. Discourse on Happiness puts forth the bad versus the good conversely to each other with the highlight being that the good practices wield happiness while the evil ones bear unhappiness. On the other hand, You Rang? Concerning good versus evil underlines, the consequences of Davidson not following through the rules. The good in the source highlights following all the rules to the latter that will, in turn, bring forth even job favors. Secondly, the happiness theme is the most outstanding subject with issues such as passions and taste assisting to offer a proper explanation on it in the Discourse on Happiness. In the You Rang? Source the happiness is pegged upon doing what you like in employment with a view into the marketable professional roles such as the professionalized type of private service sector. Davidson, while undergoing the private service sector course, is unhappy about what he describes as a sense of favoritism; therefore, the unhappiness that ensues throughout on different occasions illustrates the happiness theme. Both articles postulate that the choices one makes are very central in the realization of an ideal life. Furthermore, Chatelet argues that for one to be happy, they must be healthy, virtuous, and free from prejudices, be susceptible to illusions, and have passions and tastes.

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The article under focus for this essay is the You Rang? That has its major themes focusing on Happiness and service. Service is key in this article with the plot of the narration in this source highlighting the same. Davidson highlighted that being a servant was an idea he looked at as one that can be held by idle dropouts in their fantasies. Davidson had his life not moving in the direction he wanted given that the novel he was writing was not selling and had even lost his home. In the illustration of the service theme, Davidson took up the need to learn and venture into a whole different service sector to be able to enhance his life in what he identified as getting six figures. The choice of service was not out of passion for Davidson, but rather out of information that other people had made it through the channel as he underlines that, "I had read somewhere that Patrick Dennis, after blowing the fortune he'd made on his novel Auntie Mame, had ended his life happily as a butler (Davison, 2009)." The quest for service for one to get remuneration or employment even to get rich comes out as a key theme.

The Happiness theme connects the two sources given that all the characters involved and the discussion underlined the need for a better today and even tomorrow. You Rang? And Discourse on Happiness both follow a different trajectory when highlighting the theme. Discourse on Happiness in its entirety focusses on how people hold that it is not easy to be happy with the certainty of the revelations not real because the truth is it takes years for one to figure that out (Chatelet, 2009). When it comes to You Rang? The Happiness aspect gets looked at from the viewpoint of service. Ms. Bullock statement that "This will make you happy," she said. "I changed your numbers (Davidson, 2009)." The mentioned earlier proclamation indicates that what they were engaging in was for fulfillment and some sense of satisfaction.

You Rang? Article in its presentation provides an approach that develops the plot of the story through different sections with each beginning with a drop cap to show a shift in trajectory. The presentation style is different from Discourse on Happiness that does not have what appears to be sections, but instead uses proses to offer insights into the discussion (Chatelet, 2009). You Rang? The source does not name drop happiness in the storyline but rather illustrates the character by Davidson, whose target is to achieve happiness through a better life. The target by Davidson is in service whereby the employment he lands will significantly make a change. The evidence it uses is majorly testimonial like it is for the example of Mrs. Starkey, who continues to get credit for changing lives through private service. The evidence is also statistical with the illustration of the billionaires in the US in need of house managers and other statistical data to illustrate a household that already makes use of the service. On the other hand, Discourse on Happiness makes use of formal arguments to underline on the people's understanding of happiness or unhappiness. The evidence is also in journal articles used in providing formal arguments. You Rang? Source has the perspectives of the author and Davidson's colleagues in Mrs. Starkey's institution. On the other hand, Discourse on Happiness only has perspectives from Chatelet with the insights coming from the journal used to make arguments on happiness.

You Rang? Advocates for a particular position which is to have a specific stand when it comes to the pursuit of whatever you want in your life. The source offers insights on happiness through the example of service or employment. Davidson is an author who chooses a path that does not give him happiness because of pursuing the wrong things. The failure by Davidson to take up the opportunity that comes up about a publisher willing to work with him to deliver as expected his novel even when it is crystal clear getting a job appears difficult in the private sector when he's not favored. On the other hand, Discourse on Happiness both seeks to inform as well as advance a position that for one to be indeed happy he or she requires to remain virtuous, have passion, have taste, be susceptible to illusions, be healthy and free from prejudice.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the discussion of the happiness theme in the article is different from the Discourse on Happiness previous reading. The evidential nature, as highlighted above for the Discourse on Happiness reading, is one that relies on formal kind of arguments and does not necessarily make use of statistics to highlight happiness or testimonies of other people. The author makes use of journals to come up with an argument that underlines why people hold the thought of happiness as hard to find. On the other hand, You Rang? The selected article makes use of testimonial revelations of other people to illustrate how they achieved satisfaction and happiness with a viewpoint coming out of being in service. The chosen article also makes use of figurative language, particularly, personification with Davidson offering the narration.

References

Chatelet, E. d. (2009). Discourse on Happiness. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/Chatelet/Downloads/Discourse%20on%20Happiness%20-%20Du%20Chatelet%20(1).pdf

Davidson, J. P. (2013. You Rang? Mastering the art of serving the rich. Retrieved from https://harpers.org/archive/2014/01/you-rang/?single=1