Film The Society Of Dead Poets

Film The Society of Dead Poets

This essay is an analysis of the film "The Society of Dead Poets", and the current life of the institutions, we can say that in the film that takes place during the year of 1959 in the prestigious Weston preparatory academy that is found in The United States, where only boys enter wealthy families, are currently not Keating that breaks the idea of ​​the teaching team of this institution. The film treats when 6 young people (Neil Perry, Knox Overstree, Charlie Dalton, Todd Anderson, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitss) who are friends since they entered, the plot itself tries to make the parents force them to do what they say. But at present both parents and teachers leave the free choice of what students choose what they want to do in their life.

The film of "The Society of Dead Poets", takes place in an academy called Welton, which starts a new academic stage, where a new poetry professor was presented by SR. Keating, the same one that in his first class achieved an impression towards his students when he approached the trophy area, and tells his students to take advantage of the day ”, at the end of their class I advise them that they should not waste time.

Keating replace the theoretical approach to poetry using a method based on poetic reading and freedom of thought, in what some young people do not like the way he taught, all this was because they were not accustomed was something was something New, some young people discover that Keating had made a club called "The Society of Dead Poets", when he was a student, the young people at that moment worried about the idea of ​​living intensely.

These young people had several things in common the fact that their families had their future planned so they seek class, at that moment he said that it was about a group of young people interested in poetry.

That moment is the life of the students change, mainly in Knox that has discovered love, but does not know how to conquer it, to the extent that young people dare to think for themselves, discover their talents and interests, that way it was like Neil found his vocation for acting and integrated his father’s hidden theater group, but upon discovering what his son was doing he decided to punish him severely.

Knox finds the value to go after the girl he likes, Todd manages.

Nowadays education compared to that of before is very different, since every time education has evolved through the learning method and technology there were previously more values ​​especially poetry was of the utmost importance for young people currently poetry not poetry It is very appreciated, since some people use social technology and networks as a means of expression where it was used to send a text message to write something romantic or conquer someone.

conclusion

In conclusion, this film shows us that the system used by the Weston Academy is the behaviorist who have their 4 values: tradition, honor, discipline and excellence, so only the parents of the students agreed in this way of educating the students , which was based on training them according to the requirements of the company or society that each of them belonged, so the students are locked and cannot make their own decisions, here is where Professor Keating appears and breaks this idea of ​​being behavioral And it teaches them to make their own decisions, the part of constructivism, putting as bases the practice and experience and thus the students break structures and ideas imposed by behaviorism and begin to create their own learning based on their lives of their experiences as long as These are not incorrect under the guidance of your teacher.

As for the present we see that they are more liberal and take into account their parents or teachers, but that they are more independent when doing their activities.

Sources

• Documents sent by Mr. Susana Rivera Yela