Reflection of Dead Poets Society

This film is about a professor who teaches poetry in English, Mr. Keating. The first day of school when students await the presentation of the new professor, asked out of the lounge and quoted them a poem that Walt Whitman dedicated to President Abraham Lincoln: “Oh captain, my captain.” The objective of Mr. Keating was that the students would learn the concept of carpe diem. He teaches them to follow their hearts, their dreams and desires.  Mr. Keating’s way to teach was very particular, so the students were interested in knowing more about him. They discovered that he was involved in the Dead Poets Society. Seeing this, the students became interested in knowing what was this society and asked Mr. Keating. The Professor answered them that his group met in a cave and said to them: “Dead Poets Society were dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. Was a bunch of guys reading poetry” “We did not just read poetry, we let it drip from our tongues, like honey.” They were romantics. Todd Anderson, Neil Perry, Knox Overstreet and Charlie Dalton decided to make a new creation of this group and meet at the same place, knowing that this was prohibited.

Neil Perry, one of the students of Professor Keating, was the most impacted. Neil's father, Mr. Perry, was in control of his son's life. He was always imposing what Neil had to do and never allowed him to choose what he wanted to do with his life.  He was afraid to face his father, therefore Neil always accesses to what Mr. Perry ordered. As the movie proceeded we saw how Neil wanted to take control of his life, but his father was preventing it. Starting with the part in which Neil quits the school annual, something to which he wanted to resign, but did so because Mr. Perry ordered him to do. Neil looked for help to get out of this situation and went to Mr. Keating. Neil told the professor that his passion was acting and that had auditioned for the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Neil receives the part as Puck, one of the main characters. But dared not tell to his father because he knew that Mr. Perry was not going to allow this, Although Neil tried to talk to his father, but it was in vain. Nevertheless the young boy did an excellent job on the play remembering the words of his professor: "carpe diem". Mr. Perry catched his son doing the play. The piece is finished, and Mr. Perry took Neil to the house. He told Neil that he would take him to a military school and that he would study to become a doctor. All this took Neil to a trap in which felt it would not be able never to leave.  He only saw one solution: commit suicide.

He didn't want to continue a life in which only his father would have control over. This leads us to reflect on its internal and external journey. See as everything what the father did, and the things he said affected Neil in a negative way. While the only thing that professor wanted was to show him to follow his passion and to deal with that fear, that problem with his father. Everything that happened on the outside, one way or another affected inside of him and took him to take off his life. Many young people live this every day and perhaps think of it, but for this reason we must see the opportunities that are presented to us every day and choose whether we take them or let them pass, but above all to find the true sense of carpe diem.