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.
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.
Isabella LaBianca English 2H, 5th Mrs. Miller Dead Poets Society “Dead Poets’Society”: IDK In the film, Dead Poets Society, Peter Weir illustrates the romantic elements of nonconformity and nature. As the film opens, Todd Anderson, a shy and lonely teenager, under pressure from his parents to succeed like his brother, arrives for the new semester at Welton Academy. He sees a different side to this strict school after the first day of English class with the new teacher, Mr. Keating. His first words of wisdom, perhaps the most important, to the boys are in his first lesson: “Carpe Dium lads! Seize the day!
His unorthodox methods not only taught the boys to think for themselves, but they also awoke the boys’ inner desires and dreams. This movie does an excellent job of portraying the school’s four pillars (tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) and the four I’s (individualism, innocence, intuition, and imagination) through members of the Dead Poets Society, specifically Todd Anderson and Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton. Todd Anderson showed the best understanding of the philosophies of transcendentalism, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s. Todd failed to follow Emerson’s philosophy of “Imitation is suicide” until the very last minute of the movie, when he daringly stood up on his desk and called out “Oh Captain, my Captain!” to Mr. Keating. He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office.
Dead Poets Society is a film which tells the story of an English teacher at a very traditional all boys prep school and how he inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. From his teaching his students learn how important it is to be yourself and that you must take risks at live, his unorthodox teaching style impacted four of the boy the most. There has been some debate over whether or not Dead Poets Society should continue to be studied in high schools. Personally, I believe that the film has educational value. By analyzing the film, students learned about the important themes of identity, “Carpe Diem” and tradition.
Kirjan ENG-2D3 Cregan, N 11/13/2014 The film Dead Poets Society set in the year 1959 focuses on the painfully shy Todd Anderson who is newly enrolled in to Welton Academy, and his roommate Neil Perry who is exceedingly bright and popular, while under the thumb of his over-bearing father. The two, along with their other classmates, meet Professor John Keating, their new English teacher who tells them of the Dead Poet Society; the boys reach over their dream’s and in their own way each of their lives have changed. The element of sound brings a burst of excitement, a hold of suspense, and a grudge of terror as it assembles the very scene we are awaiting. Peter Weir the director of Dead Poets Society has used this element to maximum perfection in this film; he was able to adorn each astonishing scene with an impeccable tune. When Neil Perry is up late at night, just after his dad harshly instructs him to take part in military school and medical school, we don’t know what is going to take effect.
For example, “Old Colonel Matterson thinks he’s still in World War I, Billy Bibbit suffered a breakdown in ROTC training when he couldn’t answer the drill officer’s command without stuttering, and McMurphy, who received a dishonorable discharge in the Korean War for insubordination” (American Dreams). In conclusion Kesey was well influenced during his time writing the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. During the 1960’s the world was well impacted by drug usage and challenging authority to find peace, harmony and liberation. Over all according to the novel Ken used McMurphy to represent someone who wants to bring peace harmony and liberation to
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.
First, both of them have a good education. For example, Atticus Finch, the man in “To kill a mockingbird” can read and write, and is able to read to Jem and Scout every night. Atticus: “If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have.” (Page 31, Line 26). Similarly, Michael Scotfield, the guy in “Prison break”, completes university and works as an engineer. A second way in which these two characters are similar is that they both respect other people’s privacy.
When the audience first see the school grounds during the opening section of the film, we are confronted with the sturdy stone structures of its buildings, high interior walls and ceilings, shown in high angle camera shots, which emphasises the power and the authority of the school. Mr Keating rebels against the school traditions through his unique teaching methods, such as the scene in his first day of class where he tells the students to rip the pages out from textbooks, close up shots of the ripping are shown in this scene which indicates the students initial rebellious action against the schools traditions. Mr Keating believed that the students should develop their own responses to poetry through teaching in dynamic and inspirational ways such as asking the students to kick soccer balls while shouting poetry. Stark angle shots effectively capture the sense of dynamism in the scene where Keating leads his students to stand on the desk to take a different perspective, high angle shots give a powerful vision to the viewer to consider repositioning and gaining different perspectives. Mr Keating teaches the