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True Self - Door to True Happiness
True Self: The Door to True Happiness

Not everyone in this world is like what they seem to be. Today, we live in a world where only a few live their true self and not disguise themselves with the traits they never had. One can never be truly happy until they start living their true self and take off the illusionary disguise. There are two characters in the novel, Chronicles of Narnia, that disguise their true identity. The reader can get glimpses of their real character throughout the book. One of the characters is Edmund, the second youngest of the Pevensie children and one of the main characters in the book, who always pretends to be superior to others and ends up making himself and others happy. The other character is the White Witch who pretends to be a powerful sorceress but is a coward from within. Her false self leads to her defeat and she loses everything. A person can never enjoy true happiness if they don’t be what they really are.

You must take off the illusionary disguise and live your life by being yourself. People waste their lives copying others and trying to be something they never were. In the novel, Edmund pretends to be superior and intelligent to others and later suffers and puts his siblings in trouble too. When the White Witch asks him to bring his siblings to Narnia, he says, “There’s nothing special about them”. (Lewis, pg. 39) He pretends to be better than all others in front of the Witch not showing his real self. He also makes fun of Lucy’s story and enjoys being like that. Even if we like to live our false self, it can never give us true happiness and at the end one has to suffer. Edmund’s behavior with Lucy weakened his relationship with his siblings. Peter reprimands him by saying, “You’ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she started the nonsense about the wardrobe”. (Lewis, pg. 45) No one likes a person who disguises oneself with traits one never had.

You can never be successful if you pretend to possess traits

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