Reading on Eudaimonia (if you didn't read yesterday)
Film Screening: Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude Seminar
Prep
Think of a
film as a text. Annotate it as you watch,
analyze, look for evidence. Refer to the
specifics of the film in seminar!
AFTER THE MOVIE….Prepare
answers to some or all of the following questions, using evidence from the film
to support your answers. Print out your seminar prep and bring it
with you to the seminar.
1. Is Harold and Maude
an existentialist film?
2. What are the roots of Harold’s angst and alienation? How do his ideas about happiness and meaning
evolve as a result of his relationship with Maude? How does his character change?
3. Has Maude has achieved Eudaimonia? Do you see her as an existentialist?
4. What message is this movie trying to transmit? What might it be trying to teach us about
Happiness and Meaning? How does it
impact you personally? Is it
rhetorically effective for you?
5. Identify 2-3
impactful quotes from the film and explain their literary significance.