Dead Poets Society Compare And Contrast

Dead Poets Society and A Separate Peace are similar stories in many ways, both stories are also very different in multiple ways. Both stories exists a secret club. The club in A Separate Peace is the Super Suicide Society the equivalent to that in Dead Poets Society is the Dead Poets Society, both of these clubs were the basis of rule breaking in the stories. For example the Super Suicide Society went to the tree that was off-limits at Devon in A Separate Peace, the only member of this group that could have managed to escape punishment would have been Finny. An example for Dead Poets Society was the cave just off of the school property where the boys met for their readings, this was a major risk because the students of Welton were not permitted off the
The Dead Poets misinterpreted Mr. Keatings “Carpe Diem”. The Super Suicide Society comes about after Gene tells Finny “that color makes you look like a fairy”. The misunderstandings that happen in the stories connect well because both were over analysed by the recipient, causing major happenings.
The final comparison is that both Gene and Neil have pressure to be the best in their classes and everything else they do. Gene gets these pressures from himself and from his best friend, Finny. Whereas Neal gets most of his pressures from his father and then only a small bit of it is from himself.
Dead Poets Society and A Separate Peace are different in many ways, the first way found was the involvement of adults and teachers. In Dead Poets Society the adult roles were very important. The parents of the students were very involved as well as the teachers and adults of the school. This plays a big part in the happenings in the school. In A Separate Peace the parents and adults were a very scarce commodity. The adults in the school were very lenient during the summer session at