?Dead Poets society? :: essays research papers

Dead Poets societyIn the film Dead Poets Society, dir. Peter Weir, we toilet see vivid pictures from the life at Welton, a very old and traditional boys school. The action is taking place in 1950s. It is predominantly viewed by the eye of Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawk), newcomer, who is very shy and timid and is under the pressure because of his elder br different, who was successful and popular student of Welton. He and his classmates Knox, Max, Neil Perry and the others, came here to get a classical development and they were expected so. But everything had changed when a new literature teacher, Mr. John Keating (Robin Williams), came. He graduated here and came to teach here. But he taught another way, his methods absolutely differed from those of other teachers and from the spirit of the school in a whole. He was trying to teach them out of the textbooks. He bonkd verse line very much and wanted his students to love it too and he believed that it would help them in their future l ife. And Todd, Neil and the whole class loved him very much. They discover that while studying there, Mr. Keating organized the Dead poets society and decide to continue this society. In the secret from the whole school they get together in a cave at nights, smoked, read poetry and spoke About everything poetry, girls, philosophy, about the life in a whole.But the principal doesnt share the students admiration of their teacher. Especially afterward the fact that Neil Perry killed himself because he wanted to be an actor but his father didnt allow him. He wanted his son to be a doctor. And the government activity saw (or wanted to see) here the influence of Mr. Keating and his lessons. All the members of the society were punished and Mr. Keating dismissed. But in the final scene, when he come to take his belongings, some his students set up up at the desks to show their protest and solidarity with their favorite teacher.In this film Peter Weir in a masterly way showed the conflic t amidst craft spirit of Welton and fresh jet of Keatings philosophy. In a broad meaning it can be considered as a conflict between romantism and realism, between the way we would like to live and the way we live, the real life and how should we do with this problem.