Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society
In Peter Weir’s film Dead Poets Society an idea that I feel is the most important is education. Arguably, education is the most important influence in a teenagers life because it holds the key to our future. However, it is how we are educated that will determine our success. Whether we choose to conform with everyone else becoming controlled by rules and regulations, or if we choose to develop into free thinking and confident adolescents we have the ability to change the way we are educated. Weir unfolds the narrative structure of Dead Poets Society around the issue of Romanticism, a time where men who were Romantics searched for freedom in imagination and individuality. Weir crafts this in the film by editing in shots of nature that is free and wild, he chose nature because men who were Romantics believed it was nature that was the key to unlocking the soul. By comparing the confines of education with the freedom of Romanticism, Weir makes me realise that education has the power to crush a mans soul.
Director Peter Weir cunningly choses to unfold the narrative structure around Romanticism because the freedom that men who were Romantics possessed contrasts with the restrictions of education. To make us realise this, Weir inserts long shots of nature, but not an ordered nature, nature that is wild and untamed because Welton is a ordered school, controlled by strict rules and regulations to the point where the students seem like they are in a prison. A scene that reflects this is where Weir uses a shot of an open field with a cluster of birds flying away freely then cuts to the stairwell at Welton, where the students are yelling and trying to get down the stairs in utter chaos.
Welton Academy is a highly regarded single sex boys school, which thrives on the high expectations of the parents of students who go there. The standard job of the teacher is to ‘prepare the students for college, nothing more, nothing less.’ However, the new
In Peter Weir’s film Dead Poets Society an idea that I feel is the most important is education. Arguably, education is the most important influence in a teenagers life because it holds the key to our future. However, it is how we are educated that will determine our success. Whether we choose to conform with everyone else becoming controlled by rules and regulations, or if we choose to develop into free thinking and confident adolescents we have the ability to change the way we are educated. Weir unfolds the narrative structure of Dead Poets Society around the issue of Romanticism, a time where men who were Romantics searched for freedom in imagination and individuality. Weir crafts this in the film by editing in shots of nature that is free and wild, he chose nature because men who were Romantics believed it was nature that was the key to unlocking the soul. By comparing the confines of education with the freedom of Romanticism, Weir makes me realise that education has the power to crush a mans soul.
Director Peter Weir cunningly choses to unfold the narrative structure around Romanticism because the freedom that men who were Romantics possessed contrasts with the restrictions of education. To make us realise this, Weir inserts long shots of nature, but not an ordered nature, nature that is wild and untamed because Welton is a ordered school, controlled by strict rules and regulations to the point where the students seem like they are in a prison. A scene that reflects this is where Weir uses a shot of an open field with a cluster of birds flying away freely then cuts to the stairwell at Welton, where the students are yelling and trying to get down the stairs in utter chaos.
Welton Academy is a highly regarded single sex boys school, which thrives on the high expectations of the parents of students who go there. The standard job of the teacher is to ‘prepare the students for college, nothing more, nothing less.’ However, the new