Dead Poets Society
When I first saw Dead Poets Society, it was nothing I expected. The film is quite serious and it is without question the best movie I've ever seen. It takes place in 1959 at Welton Academy, a private collage prep school for boys where discipline is the most important goal and any demonstration of a free thought is strictly prohibited . One voice stands out among narrow-minded administration-John Keatings, eccentric and inspiring teacher. He wants his students to "suck the bone of life to the marrow", "to seize the day", and to make their lives "extraordinary". Keatings teaches poetry, but his students get a lot more than that- they learn passion, courage, and romance. Group of his students dare to form Dead Poets Society, a secret organization. One of the boys, Neil, who wants to be an actor but whose overbearing father forbids him to , commits a suicide and dies . His roommate , Todd, is trying to live up to expectations after his brother becomes the school's valedictorian. At the end, Mr. Keatings is fired after being accused of having a negative impact on his students. Self-esteem becomes one of the centers of the movie. Neil's low self-esteem reveals itself only in the relationship with Neil's father, but leads Neil to his
tragic end. On the other hand, Todd, with the help of Professor Keatings, was able to build up his self-esteem . John Keatings wasn't a regular professor: his teaching methods were very different from those of others in Welton Academy. The relationship between Todd and professor Keatings is quite interesting because we can see the transformation that Todd went through from being afraid to answer teacher's question to being the first one to show his appreciation for Mr. Keatings when doing so could lead to expelling from the school. Mr. John Keatings guides his students into an expended awareness of life's possibilities, and I can only wish to find someone who will help me to find myself. For now, I am alone : neither my parents, friends, nor my boyfriend will help me, and I don't blame them. In their eyes I am a young sophisticated women who knows where she goes and what she wants from life, but inside I am a scared little girl who is not sure about anything in her life. I realized after watching this movie that we are too complex and many aE"sided to rate ourselves as "bad" or "good", even more than that , we shouldn't rate ourselves at all. However, it is part of our nature to often evaluate ourselves, and self doubt might become our companion throughout our lives; still it doesn't mean that we have to think about ourselves as "good" of "bad" in general. We might want to evaluate our specific actions in specific circumstances in order to avoid mistakes that we made in the future. By assuming that we are bad, we program ourselves for the failure. Perhaps the highest purpose of education is for the individual to become aware of oneselves because when people know themselves they can maximize good outcomes, for it is through awareness that we are able to choose our goals and create our destiny. Todd suffers from low self-esteem, and this low self-esteem prevents him from seeing his own strength thus making Todd to be unaware of his positive traits.He himself creates his own limits by having a negative concept of himself. It is very interesting to see how John Keatings establishes the re
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