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Dead Poets Society Quote Analysis
Evaluating Dead Poets Society through the Archetypical lenses there is various symbols and quotes from the book. One would notice that in Dead Poets Society this is a lot of symbols and quote with a dark meaning behind them. Such as when the Dead Poets Society starts a session in their secret cave they start by saying “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” (Kleinbaum 26). At the beginning of this quote i seems very peaceful but, it takes a darker turn near the end. By saying this when the marrow is sucked out of something it kills them. So by reading into the quote one could see that the quote want them to end or kill life in the end.another quote from when neil
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