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Thinking about happiness -- find a specific element of the play: theme, scene, interaction, character, anything that relates to something you are passionate about in your thinking about happiness. This is only the beginning--the germ of what we're going to put out as our final scene of reflection.

• hapiness; when do you sacrifice your happiness for others?
• should you defer happiness?
• relationship to play: active role in society?
• talk about defining happiness? Would people be happier in their old society or in their new society? Seneca (Moral Epistle 7, passim.Thoreau, ), Thoreau, Locke, Rousseau
• Ongoing process of overcoming obstracles (Bogdan) - how does this relate to the play?
• happy life vs. the "right" life to be living?

Corby's notes on what people were saying about the Birds:

The conceit at the basis of the play. Hugh & Peter are hassled and overpowered by the hubbub of daily Athenian/San Franciscan life. The path for happiness? An abandonment (physical/conceptual) of their home/society.

Can you find happiness by abandoning your circumstances? Do you need to grapple with your own internal situation? Are circumstances important?

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