and Mrs. A, who lost her marriage due to Mr. A leaving his wife to pursue someone else who will make him happier than before with his wife. Claire, the woman who talks to Lewis on the topic, provides a perspective that Lewis presents to his audience that people might have a right to be happy in any way that is right in the eyes of the law but does not make it morally right. This opens up the comparison Lewis makes that the right to happiness makes as much sense as the right to be six feet tall. This continues Lewis' thought and argument against Claire. Lewis presents this allegory to show a real life situation to present to his audience how the world has become based on state law rather than moral law. Claire believes in the idea that Mr. A had the right to embark on this new life with Mrs. B; however, Lewis expounds on this belief by adding the thought that Mr. A could very well leave Mrs. B to pursue happiness with someone else. Mr. A and everyone else he talked about earlier, including Claire, never have an impact in this story as Lewis only talks about them; This leads me to believe that Lewis talked about all these characters in our imagination, in an attempt to present a common moral law that people tend to break. This allegory excellently opens up the topic of persuasiveness that Lewis then begins to talk about which is the basis of this whole argument that humanity must change its ways lest it become morally
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