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* * Unit 13 Dead Poets’ Society Historical Background: social needs -- a spiritual release Story source: based on one of Mr. Schulmans teachers while he was at MBA Characters Released: 1989 John Keating: Robin Williams Director: Peter Running time: 130mins Dead Poets Society explores the conflict between realism and romanticism as these contrasting ideals are presented to the students at an all-boy preparatory school. Welton Academy is founded on tradition and excellence and is bent on providing strict structured lessons prescribed by the realist, anti-youth administration. With the dawning of each new semester, hundreds of parents abandon their sons, leaving them in the tried hands of Welton staff in hopes that they will raise doctors and lawyers. When a replacement English teacher arrives, who happens to be a Welton alumnus, he brings with him a passion for teaching romanticism, thus opening a never-before-seen world to his students. Synopsis (Keating asked the boys to come out of the classroom and got to the building hall.) Keating: O Captain! My Captain! Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Keating: Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now, this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or, if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain! My Captain. Keating: Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don’t fester into facts. Yes, I, too, attended Hellton and have survived. And no, at that time, I was not the mental giant you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a ninety-eight-pound weakling. I would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face. Keating: Now, Mr. Pitts. That’s rather unfortunate name Mr. Pitts, where are you? Mr. Pitts, will you open your hymnal to page 542? Read the first stanza of the poem you find there. Pitts: To the Virgins, to Make Much of the Time? Keating: Yes. That’s the one. Somewhat appropriate, isn’t it? Pitts: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old ti