Dead Poet Society

How did the movie The Legend of 1900 impacted you?
The movie Dead Poet Society had a great impact on me. I felt that I was so involved with the young students that I honestly couldn’t sleep that night. I was putting lots of assumptions in my head to try to figure what is the best way to help the young and adolescents to reach their goals and have a healthy and successful personality in this world. The movie tackles the concept of individualism in great depth. Fundamental principals of existentialism and transcendentalism were demonstrated clearly through the numerous conflicts that the characters faced. Neil Perry’s suicide, for instance, demonstrate the fact that when individual’s authority is allowed to prevail against tradition, distressing
Young men or adolescents are more passionate about things, reckless, smoke in secrets, share secrets and hide things from their parents and rebelling. Neil Perry was perusing a career in performing art rather than in medicine despite his father’s desire to get him to a medical school who wanted to control his son’s life and dictating his every movie. Neil was able to stand up to his father; however, because of the lack of healthy father to son relationship, Neil was unable to express his real desire and knock down his father’s increasing tyrannical figure. The movie shows how important father and son relationship is. Neil proved to his father that he was able to take control of his life by committing a suicide. Suicide was the only way for Neil to gain control and stand up to his father. It is important to allow sense of autonomy to adolescents because then they can rely on themselves and be better achievers in the future. Communication, support and monitoring are delicate tasks that should be done with care by parents. Neil and his father’s relationship lack communication, mutual trust and respect created a gap between them. Neil’s existential actions were important step in his process of self-discovery and individual