Harold and Maude In the movie Harold and Maude, Harold is a young boy out of place in the world. He is obsessed with death and grief. Maude comes along and teaches him how to live his life and discover his true individuality. She adopts Harold and tries to bring him out of his depression and put him back in to the world as a person. Maude’s obsession with life and Harold’s obsession …showed first 75 words of 692 total…

…showed last 75 words of 692 total…is able to live and respect life and his individualism. He learns this from his lover Maude. With Harold’s newfound respect for himself he can now live as a true human. Being human by nature makes us different, otherwise our species would never evolve. If we all tried to be the same all our individual human talents and abilities would be lost. This I think is what Harold learned from Maude, how to live.