Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets society

In the movie Dead Poets Society, we meet John Keating (or Mr. Keating) who is a teacher at boarding school Welton Academy. As a child, John Keating himself also went to Welton Academy, or as the students call it: ‘Hellton Academy’. At that time, he was a member of a club called Dead Poets Society, where a group of boys would meet and read poems out loud. John Keating is teaching his students in an unorthodox way. In the first lesson, he has with his class, he tells his students about the term carpe diem, which means seize the day. He wants the students to be individuals, freethinkers and creative - he wants them to reach for the things they want to do, not what other people wants them to do. One day he makes them rip out the introduction in the book of poems, another day he makes them go around in the schoolyard to teach them to be individuals. He also makes them read lines out loud with power to a song before kicking a football. One day in the class John Keating is standing on his desk and ask the class why he is. He tells them that sometimes they need to see life from a different perspective, so he makes them all stand on the desk one by one.

One day a group of boys finds a book from when John Keating was a student at Welton Academy, where they find out he was in a club named Dead Poets Society. He tells them secretly and indirectly that they should recreate the Dead Poets Society. So one night after bedtime, the boys sneak out and have their first meeting in the club. Slowly the Dead Poets Society grows bigger, and two girls are accepted to the club.

A boy named Neil Perry is a student in John Keating’s class, who is one of the best and most promising students on Welton Academy. One of his biggest dreams is to be an actor, and he recently got the leading role in a play called A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Though Neil has this dream, his father does not approve it, so he writes a letter