Additionally, the two poems are similar in that in Suicide Note, the college student is trying to please her family by getting perfect grades; she is working hard at school, and feels that she is not good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough (Mirikitani, 1417); the college student is under pressure to live up to her parent’s expectations. In Out, Out, the young boy is also hard at work, trying take care of the family. The poems are different in that in Suicide Note, the college girl has taken her life and writes her parents an apology note informing them why she is taking her life; in Out, Out, the child in the poem does not take his own life, but dies as a result of cutting his hand using a saw. In Out, Out, the young boy is cutting wood, and he becomes excited and cuts his hand on accident. The two poems are also different in that in Suicide Note, the young girl has time to think about and give reason as to why she is taking her life.
The Analysis of Grotesque Character of Light Yagami in Shūsuke Kaneko’s Death Note the Movie: Psychological Approach A paper to fulfill assignment of Seminar on Literature Lecturer: Nuri fainudin, M.hum By Marciana Trihastiti 08004421 ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION AHMAD DAHLAN UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2011 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study In general, types of literature are fiction, poetry, and drama. Fiction and drama have almost similar characteristic in their elements since both works are written prose and in certain time-sequence. In globalization and the development of technology, people prefer watching films on television or movies to reading novel. Film is a fascinating form of entertainment, because everything on the screen appears to be life like natural.
Dead Poets Society At the welcoming ceremony for new students, Mr Nowlan is introduced and explains the principals of the Welton academy ( a school only for boys), which are tradition, excellence, discipline and honour. Mr John Keating who has been a student on the school, is introduced too. He is a English teacher, who has his own conception of teaching. He is inspired by values like passion, imagination, beauty, language and love which he integrates in his classes. His slogan is “Carpe Diem”, which means “seize the day”, therefore he wants his students to think of their own life, choices and become individual persons.
In the film The Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, the behaviour of one character, Mr Keating, has made an impact on the film by conveying key themes such as non-conformism and promoting critical thinking. It depicts a story of a young teacher Mr Keating and his endeavour to help the students of his English class at Welton Academy, to think for them-selves and not to follow conformism. His behaviour and the reaction of the students show the controversial nature of conformity. He has his own way of teaching his students to strive to find their own voice. Mr Keating demonstrates to his class how easily it is to conform to something.
This is exemplified by Charlie Dalton when he refused to do his walk when Keating ordered them to do so and when he changed his name to Nawanda which is a unique name. Keating encourages his students to don’t just consider what the author thinks when they read but consider what they think themselves; quoting Thoreau who said “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!” Emerson also wrote “To believe in your own thought, to believe what is true for you, in your private heart is true, that is genius!” Another element is the concept of “Carpe Diem” which was demonstrated by Knox who seized the day when he finally acted upon by his desire to call Chris. The third element is spirituality in nature as shown by the recitation of poem and the chanting of the boys in an Indian cave.
The movie, Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir is set in an American private school during a time of romanticism in the first half of the twentieth century. Dead Poet’s Society negotiates the transition of poetry and life as an unconventional English teacher encourages a group of private school boys to seize the day. The boys intimidate the teachers youth by reforming the dead poet’s society and getting in touch with romanticism and their true inner life. However a fathers controlling nature pushes Neil Perry to his limits as the stress of all work and no play takes its toll. It is this scene where Neil sacrifices himself that has greatest impact and adds overall effectiveness to the movie.
So the cultural background of these boys had trained them to see life in a much different way until they have Mr. Keating for an English teacher and he gives his “Carpe Diem “speech which greatly changes their perceptions of school, the future, and life. One of the characters Neal Perry struggles with his own demons after the free thinking Mr. Keating has inspired him to discover that he does not want to be the doctor that his father has so much pushed him to be but rather an actor. Acting is what he is passionate about. Neal was motivated and controlled all his life by his father’s wishes. It was a learned response that to get his father’s approval, he must go the route of prep school, medical school, and then a career as a doctor.
Dead Poets Society (1989) Dead Poets Society is a story of an English teacher named John Keating (Played by Robin Williams), who inspires his students to be themselves and change their lives and “ Seize the Day” through his teaching of poetry and literature. Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, Charlie Dalton , Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, and Gerard Pitts are senior students of the Welton Academy, which is the best elementary school in America and the values is defined by the headmaster Gale Nolan as tradition, honor, discipline and excellence. John Keating, a former student at the school, begins working in the school as an English teacher. He tells his students to call him “O Captain! My Captain!” In his class, he is making unusual works for his students in teaching them.
SEIZE THE DAY Carpe Diem, the Latin word for ‘’seize the day’’, is a broadly presented theme in the film Dead Poets Society, as well as parenting, conformity, making choices, youth, generation gaps and many more. In this essay I am going to go more into these different themes and explain how these are related to the film. In the film Dead Poets Society you see the different impressions of discipline, tradition and honor, through the students at a school called Welton Boys Academy. The film represents the different educational sights of Welton Academy and the new English teacher, Mr. Keating. Welton encourage the students to achieve their best abilities in order to be accepted by society.
This school hires a new English teacher, Mr. John Keating, a teacher who will make an unforgettable impact on his students. Throughout the movie Mr. Keating challenges his students to “think for themselves, to look deep within themselves, and to make their lives extraordinary” (Keating). While Welton tries to make the boys good citizens through conformity, Mr. Keating attempts to convince the boys to think for themselves and not just follow the crowd. He encourages the boys to discover their dreams then pursue them. Charles Dalton, known by his friends as Charlie, is one of Mr. Keating’s students and is the rebel of the group.