Dead Poets Society: PLOT

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Welton Academy (Vermont, New England) is one of the most prestigious school of all the country. Welton is an only men school. The education is based in four main ideas "tradition, honour, discipline and excellence".

Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, Charlie Dalton, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, and Gerard Pitts are students of Welton. Their new English teacher is going to change their opinion about poetry.

Mr Keating’s methods are not like Welton ones, he tells the students that they may call him "O Captain! My Captain!” (From a Walt Whitman poem). Mr Keating also teach the students the idea of “Carpe Diem”.

  

Inspired by Keating, the boys secretly revive the "Dead Poets Society," to which Keating belonged when he was a student in Welton, every night they meet in a cave a read poems.

Todd tries to overcome his shyness. Neil is hiding his theatre passion to his father. Knox falls in love and he fights for her love. Charlie has a new identity, he is “Nuwanda”.

Neil plays the role of Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. His father told her before the day of the play that he mustn’t play that role. Without his father permission Neil acts the first night of the play and Mr Perry discovered him. He takes Neil home and tells that he is not coming back to Welton, that he will go to a military school and then to Harvard.

Neil is impotent, he doesn’t know how to express his feeling to his father, and he ends with his life.

In the school the headmaster begins an investigation, also Mr Nolan laid off Mr Keating. He blames Mr Keating the suicide of Neil. But the boys defend Mr Keating and  they say goodbye like Mr Keating wants.

Marta