Point out at least three conflicts in Dead Poets Society
...ravesty, horror, decadence, and excrement mention that these boys are bound by strict rules and even stricter parents, but they are not reconciled to live this kind of life; therefore, they find out other way to release themselves from the grasp. It also deals with the age-old conflict of traditional compulsion verses new modern freedom and flexibility. Secondly, Walton Academy has a large sense of tradition that both the teachers and the student must abide by. The teachers must follow the rigid set of rules, while the students are to mindlessly intake information and regurgitate them on command. But after Mr. Keating comes to the school as an English teacher, he focuses around Poetry. He teaches the boys to express themselves and do what they in their hearts wanted to do, not what their parents wanted them to do. Furthermore, an older, more experienced teacher has asked Mr. Keating whether the teenagers are really ready yet to handle his brand of freedom or not. “Gee, I never pegged you for a cynic,” says Keating. “I’m not,” says the other teacher. “I’m a realist.” This smells like the set-up for a promising battle of philosophies, but Keating gives his partner a sympathetic intellectual sparring. Thirdly, the major conflict is Neil and his father. Mr. Keating encourages Neil to pursue his desire to be an actor, against the wish of his oppressive father, who holds more emotional influence over his son than he ever realizes. Neil is put in an unfair situation, where he has a passion for acting and wants to pursue it as a career, but his controlling, d...