Literary Review of Dead Poet's Society
One of the 20th centuries most compelling and best films goes by the title Dead Poets Society. This movie is set at the Helton Academy for Boys in 1959. The movie focuses in on a small group of boys. They have been sent to this preparatory school, most against their will, and have been forced to conform. However, they come across an English professor, Mr. Keating, whose lesson plan contradicts the entire schools mentality. He taught that to conform was to die. Carpe Diem seize the day. He taught the boys to march to the beat of their own drummer, to suck the marrow out of life, but above all never conform. They didn't. The students reformed the Dead Poet's Society. For this they were punished. None of the boys suffered from their nonconformity more than their leader Neil. He joined a play without his father's consent. His father told him that he would be going to a military school and would never be in the theatre again. Thus, Neil felt he......
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