The Society of Dead Poets

The Society of Dead Poets

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English Essay: ‘Dead Poet Society’
By exploring the film, ‘Dead Poets Society’, directed by Peter Weir, we come across various types of emotions and reactions the class. By referring to the statement, we can examine that Mr. John Keating (Robin Williams), Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), is the major characters of the movie and the main characters that are being examined. The boys in Mr. John Keating’s class all react in different ways to the teachings methods of his class with both positive and negative sides. Mr. John Keating is a romantic and influences his class to follow his ways. The director Peter Weir set the film in environment full of nature as its surroundings to interrelate with Mr. Keating teachings. Another significant plot that plays it ways around the film is ‘Carpe Diem’ suggested Mr. Keating. The quote infers to ‘seize the day’ which was heavily emphasized by Mr. Keating and was a major reason for many different reactions from the students. The Dead Poet society was a community which the past graduates of Welton Academy created so that they could express themselves poetically and theoretically.

Teaching was his new passion. In his attempt to teach others what he had learned in life about romanticism and how it needed to be controlled, he watched Neil, Nuwanda, and Knox enter into extreme romanticism, and that not only led to their downfall, but his as well. Mr. Keating loved his students. He inspired many of them to become romantics and many became realists. “You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists, when they realize they’re not Rembrandts, Shakespeare or Mozart’s, they’ll hate you for it”. Mr. McAllister had said this to Keating during lunch after when he saw the boys ripping out the introduction from the J. Evans Pritchard book. Mr. Keating’s teachings were a bit different to other teachers such as Mr. McAllister is realists and prefers to teach his students in the traditional J. Evans...

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