‘The dead poet society’ | Analytical essay

Indledning
It is the start of yet another school year at the academy and here we meet the head characters. Todd Anderson, a shy transfer student who we immediately get to know as ‘’Jeffrey’s brother’’, his successful older brother.

We also meet Neil Perry who is presented as popular and kind and is to be roommates with Todd for the remainder of the year.

Very quickly we get some insight on the main characters and their family relations, Neil is terrified of his father who is a very controlling and tells Neil what he can and what he can´t do .

Neil’s father wants is very has a very clear plan for Neil, go to Harvard and become a doctor. The rest of the group consists of Charlie Dalton, Richard Cameron, Knox Overstreet, Steven Meeks and Gerard Pitts.

This year a former graduate from the school, John Keating has taken the job of being an English teacher for the class all the boys are in.

Mr. Keating want the boys to be free-thinkers and quickly inspires them when he tells them about the ‘’Dead poet society’’, a society they used to have at his time at the school, where they would meet up in a cave in the forest and read poems.

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Uddrag
The novel is set to be in 1959 and takes place in the very prestigious Welton academy, a boarding school in Vermont. It is very clear that the story doesn’t take place in the present-day America in many ways.

When Charlie answers the phone at the assembly, he goes to the Deans office, ‘’’’Count aloud, Mr. Dalton,’’ Nolan instructed as he slammed the paddle into Charlie´s buttocks.’’ P106.

This definitely wouldn’t happen in a modern boarding school. The way of teaching is also very old fashioned as they read and write but doesn’t discuss a lot ’’Hands flew up into the air, students stood up and sat down like robots

reeling off answers, staunchly taking harsh reprimands for mistakes’’, this is definitely not the way kids are taught today, they are taught a lot more like Mr. Keating is trying teach them.

They also say ‘’sir’’ to their fathers instead of ‘’dad’’ like you would today. The environment at the school is as mentioned, strict and disciplined with very little room for activities and other fun stuff.