According to the movie < Dead Poets Society>, it tells a story that a couple of boys pursue the dream and freedom within the teaching from an English literature teacher which happens in the boy’s school.
Some of the major themes being used in the movie aimed to raise the diversity and complicated storyline and character relations. The following three major themes give the deeply impression.
Firstly, Symbolism; in this movie, many symbols has been designed to state the details and create a mysterious circumstance to the audience. For example, Four Pillar Banner being mentioned aims to symbolize the four values of Welton Academy which represent traditions, honor, discipline, and excellence. Those four values restricted those boys and kept them far away from freedom and resistance.
Secondly, image; during the whole movie, plenty of images appear in people’s eyes. Most of images were intelligently designed and each of them demonstrated different meanings which the writer left the various ways for the audience to think about it.
For instance, single kindle lightning, the student read poem in a cavity, the Keating standing on the desk, photographs of past students, large details were represented by those visions in order to show the image of history, future or mental element. When student ripped out first pages of poetry book, a slightly smile appeared in their face. That was the first attempt to get close to freedom and think of the poetry by their own way.
Thirdly, irony; the film also had some situation to express irony which increase the artistic and critical literature performance. For example, Todd was the shy one in the group and finally he is the first one to stand up and say O’ captain my captain.
Also the myth discussed in the paper takes responsible to irony. The pattern and images presented to reader seems so familiar to realistic but it is just myth in their daily life. That’s a huge contrast between the reality and