Analysis of Dead Poets Society: Non-Conformity Changes Lives
English 11 ( A LIT)
7/11/2012
Non conformity changes lives Dead Poets Society is a movie set in the 1950 s But filmed in 1989 .Although it is set on the 50s the movie talks and is able to get through transcendentalist ideals to the viewer . The movie is set in a boy’s only private school called Walton that sends its graduates to Ivy league colleges. Where Mr. Keating is the new English teacher were he introduces non conformity and transcendentalism to his students. In the movie each boy has a scene where he breaks out of his norm becomes and a nonconformist. The movie also relates to transcendentalist poetry like Emily Dickson work And Walt Whitman especially in his poems in “song of myself. “ So Transcendentalism connects to the movie through poetry. The movie shows us that transcendentalism is freedom and braking from the norm while having consequences it is ultimately a good thing.
Mr. Keating is the new English teacher. He graduated from the same school Walton Academy. But Mr. Keating is very different in his way of teaching and his message to the students. The school learning is set on memorization on rules like x +y makes z in the movie they show us how other teachers teach in a way that does not allow the boys to think and put ideas out. From the first class Mr. Keating he seemed different to the students from the first thing he told them to do is to get of the room to the take the class some were else witch seemed very strange to the students . “Seize the day”( Dead Poets Society) was one of the first things he thought his class that means they should be free and live the day before they die it was the first non-conformist ideas he taught them . Then he started his next class when he told his students to rip the introduction of their book. The introduction describes poetry in a very mathematical way, by measuring the enjoyment by the hymn verse and the length .So he told his students to rip out the pages because he was a transcendentalist /
7/11/2012
Non conformity changes lives Dead Poets Society is a movie set in the 1950 s But filmed in 1989 .Although it is set on the 50s the movie talks and is able to get through transcendentalist ideals to the viewer . The movie is set in a boy’s only private school called Walton that sends its graduates to Ivy league colleges. Where Mr. Keating is the new English teacher were he introduces non conformity and transcendentalism to his students. In the movie each boy has a scene where he breaks out of his norm becomes and a nonconformist. The movie also relates to transcendentalist poetry like Emily Dickson work And Walt Whitman especially in his poems in “song of myself. “ So Transcendentalism connects to the movie through poetry. The movie shows us that transcendentalism is freedom and braking from the norm while having consequences it is ultimately a good thing.
Mr. Keating is the new English teacher. He graduated from the same school Walton Academy. But Mr. Keating is very different in his way of teaching and his message to the students. The school learning is set on memorization on rules like x +y makes z in the movie they show us how other teachers teach in a way that does not allow the boys to think and put ideas out. From the first class Mr. Keating he seemed different to the students from the first thing he told them to do is to get of the room to the take the class some were else witch seemed very strange to the students . “Seize the day”( Dead Poets Society) was one of the first things he thought his class that means they should be free and live the day before they die it was the first non-conformist ideas he taught them . Then he started his next class when he told his students to rip the introduction of their book. The introduction describes poetry in a very mathematical way, by measuring the enjoyment by the hymn verse and the length .So he told his students to rip out the pages because he was a transcendentalist /