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Literary Essay – Dead Poets Society


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Literary Essay – Dead Poets Society

... Literary Essay - Dead Poets Society Bill Beattie once said, "The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." All too often, however, individual thoughts are crushed by the powerful weight of conformity. In the film Dead Poets Society, conformity exercises it's influence and the results prove disastrous for some. For others, the effect of conformity compels them towards individual strength and the discovery of one's true self. Modern education is one of the largest "offenders" when it comes to conformity, and that point is illustrated repeatedly in the film Dead Poets Society. At Wellton, students of all walks of life are expected to learn the same lessons the same ways. They are expected to memorize the important facts

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