Then we have examples of Cooley: Looking-Glass Self, Merton’s Theory of Deviance, and finally Durkheim’s theory about suicide being related to social factors. Dead Poets Society opens with all the boys in school and meeting their new teacher Mr. Keating who is going to be their new poetry teacher. Right off the bat we meet a specific group of young men who remain a tight group throughout the movie. Throughout the movie we see that one of the main characters, Neil, is having a lot of issues with his father trying to run his life and telling him what he can and can’t do. All the while Mr. Keating is trying to get these boys to think for themselves, he even opens his first class with the line “Carpe Diem” (Seize the Day) which they all take seriously.
1. The teacher rearranged the seating to make it more uniform, he voted himself to be the project leader and made the students call him Mr. Wenger for respect as a dictatorship would be. The teacher made it so that nobody talks without permission, and when they do talk they must stand up. Mr. Wenger made the kids sit straight so that they seem more respectful towards the dictator, and make their answers to the point. The leader created a bizarre energy which everyone was caught up in.
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
Simply stated, he is the man voted most likely to do anything in his senior yearbook. That anything turned out to be an English teacher, or better a life teacher, to a group of young men who were naive about the world they lived in and everything outside of their small boarding institution. Meet John Keating, the teacher played by Robin Williams in the influential movie Dead Poets Society. The teacher who used all aspects of the word ethos to motivate and transform his students’ lives. Ethos can be described as the nature, character, or unique values peculiar to a particular human being.
Manny potty trains while eating cereal and he calls Greg “Bubby”, which, according to Greg, is too childish. Greg’s mother has bought him a diary, but Greg persistently insists it is a journal and not a “diary”. In Greg’s journal he has to write about his days and, apparently, his feelings. He writes about his best friends Rowley Jefferson and Fregley, who treat Greg like he is still a child. Initially, his friends are a source of frustration as they at first seem to lack social cue reading skills needed to be a “Class Favorite”, which are mock election like positions published in the annual school yearbook.
How does the director of the film Dead Poets Society, use cinematic techniques to convey the central ideas? Peter Weir, director of the film Dead Poet's Society, has used several cinematic devices to convey the main themes of the film to the audience. Dead Poets Society follows the lives of a group of boys in the 1950s whose new English teacher shows them the importance of standing up for what they want and seizing the day, instead of conforming to what others think is right. Dialogue, mise en scene and different camera angles have been used by Weir to express the ideas of being an individual and not conforming to what other people are doing, conformity and expressing your individuality and the importance of being your own person. In the scene that introduces each of the teachers at Welton Academy, Weir has used the character Mr Keating to develop the idea of being an individual and not conforming to what other people are doing.
The movie Dead Poets Society follows a group of teens at a strict school who become heavily influenced by the transcendentalist philosophies of their new teacher, Professor John Keating. The values they are taught completely change their entire perspective and attitude towards life. For the most part this is a good thing, as the boys normally lead boring lives that they are bored with. They form a group known as the Dead Poets Society and their lives are immediately changed forever. They live by the philosophies of writers like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Overwhelmed by the task of reading, Montag looks to his wife for help and support, but she prefers television to her husband’s company and cannot understand why he would want to risk reading books. He remembers that he once met a retired English professor named Faber sitting in the park, and he decided that this man might be able to help him understand what he reads. He visits Faber who agrees to help Montag with his reading. “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me.
These three texts help us explore the desire to belong to anything especially family or school. The poem ‘St Patrick’s College’ by Peter Skrynecki is about a young boy in high school and the problems he faces. A search for belonging is seen throughout the entire poem but especially in the second stanza where the persona says, “I stuck pine needles into the motto”, with the representation of first person this statement reinforces the persona’s lack of understanding for religion and education. Being adolescents we all should understand the frustration of feeling like education doesn’t signify you as a person. Again in the second stanza we see the persona feeling unwanted and unneeded, within his school.
In the book Rodriguez takes every thing that his teachers say at face value and he never questions if perhaps they could be wrong or mistaken on subjects. In school Rodriguez read acclaimed literary books: Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, and Wuthering Heights. Which his teachers praised him for considering the books were a bit advanced for his grade and for the fact that other students lacked the ambition to read them. So he decides to be really ambitious and he wants to impress his teacher with his new reading choice. So he decides and tells his teacher that he wants to read the bible but the teacher (nun) feels that it is out of his reading comprehension and would be difficult for him to understand.