Is it more important to do your duty than to follow your dream?

 Nowdays people say “Follow your dream”, although in the movie "Shakespeare in Love "  we see Great Britain of XVI century where it was more important to do your duty. My answer to what is more important is to make following your dream a duty of your life.

      In the first part of the movie Viola de Lesseps – one of the main characters-  who always wanted to be an actor, is a great example of how person should stick to his dreams, to do everything possible to make them come true. She performed even though women were banned from the stage in those times.

  In the second part she did “a daughter's duty and the queen's command” . She was engaged to a wealthy man and married him even though she loved another person. She didn’t gave up, it was just the times she lived in.

    However, if she wouldn’t have left Shakespeare - the other main character – he probably wouldn’t have been inspired to write his another masterpiece “Twelfth Night” .

   My opinion is that it is important to make following your dream a duty of your life. However, there are some circumstances in our life that we don’t have control over (in this story Viola de Lesseps was a victim of the times she lived in, she couldn’t change the rules). But if you have a dream, you should do something right now and keep doing every day for your dream to come true. And may be you will be the one who will inspire another masterpiece....