An Analysis of Happiness on The Main Character of Me Before You Movie

Abstract

A Quadriplegia man who has the chance to gain a new life choose assisted suicide leaving reader and watcher gowned by the decision. The question is always why? Don’t human wanted to be happy? Me Before You movie was a breath taking piece of literature art and the main character William Traynor was the object of this study. This study explores the happiness in human live using Authentic Happiness theory by Martin Seligman using descriptive qualitative method to collect the data from the movie as the evidence. The findings indicate that characterization allow us to observe a character stages of emotions and feelings. And the result showed the three stages of happiness are the major evidence of experiencing True happiness itself and does it do. Findings showed that the happiness played a key role to help people condition and gave them the quality of living.