The film takes place in an old-fashioned boarding school, Welton Academy, in 1959. The school is very strict and disciplinary and most of the students who goes there are probably there to become doctors or lawyers. We are following seven boys and their new poetry teacher Mr. Keating.
Keating is a former student of Welton, but he doesn’t like the school system. He inspires the boys to seize the day. Carpe Diem. With his untraditional teaching methods he tries to make individuals out of the boys. As an example he tells the class to tear out the introduction in their textbooks, because it threats poetry like math.
One day they are reading about Keating In an old yearbook, and find out that he was a member of the Dead Poets Society. As the group Confronts Keating with the book, he explains the nature of the club.
In a remote cave the seven boys are holding Meetings consisting of reading out loud poetry for each other. Slowly the boys go through a transformation, each of them in their own way.
Neil, Who has a very domination father, is dreaming of being an actor. He sees the opportunity to play the lead in a play and takes it, though he knows his father is not going to like it. He makes a Letter “signed” by his father allowing him to join, but his father finds out and stops him to. He has other plans for him and that is being a doctor and not an actor.
Neil plays the role anyway, but his father looks him during the act, and after he takes him home. He has now decided for him to be sent to a military school. Neil is unable to stand up for himself and tell his father what he feels. The same night Neil commits suicide with his father’s gun in his office. The other boys are very upset and crying.
All the members of Dead Poets Society are forced into signing a document saying that Keating is the guilty for Neil’s Acting dreams. He is fired and Mr. Nolan who is the inspector of the school is now teaching his class.
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