Identity It is truly amazing how comparable things are in life when you take a moment to actually compare them. When we use the right side of our brains, and start connecting things, we realize how much in common that certain things or objects have. Not only are physical objects comparable, but texts and literature can be reflected upon and connected to other texts in numerous ways. Characters, setting, mood, and a myriad of other elements in texts have the ability to be compared to something else. In society today, comparison can be seen as something negative. For example, if you’re a high school girl and you spend your whole life comparing yourself to others, it is most likely not bringing you any benefits. This is true if you’re telling …show more content…
Finny and Gene are the two main characters in the former story, and these two are extremely exceptional friends. Finny is outgoing and involved in many activities, and Gene seems to be more reserved and keeps to himself. Even though Gene shows contained emotions, he always goes along with Finny’s crazy ideas to break the rules and have many little adventures and games of his own. In the latter text, two of the most main characters are Neil and Thomas. Neil, like Finny, is involved in many things, including the play, and he doesn’t fear teachers and professors and the rules at the school. When the actual Dead Poet’s Society is created, Neil has no problem going against the school rules to pursue the things that he appreciates. Thomas is the new boy that comes to school in this movie, and as a result, he is a bit more apprehensive and doesn’t draw much attention to himself. However, he always follows Neil and participates in the Dead Poet’s Society, even though he knows that they could very well get into a lot of trouble. These characters from each text have so much in common and they possess many identical characteristics and overall
The pressures of getting an education can be very stressful. Trying to consistently maintain good grades, please your parents, and in the meantime try to hang out with your friends, can become very overwhelming. The Super Suicide Society from A Separate Peace and Dead Poets Society from The Dead Poets Society were both essentially formed in an effort to make their schooling less stressful. Both the Super Suicide Society and the Dead Poets Society provided an outlet from the pressures of their education and helped the members to conquer their fears. First of all, these two secret societies provided an outlet from the pressures of their schooling.
For instance, Phineas, also known as Finny, is demonstrated as the naturally successful and achievements come natural to him. Where as, on the other hand, Gene is a more somber and a somewhat hostile character as he resents Finny. According to the text, Finny was handsome, athletic, and adventurous adolescent; he was a distinguished young man in many aspects of his life. Along with being successful, the author also portrays Finny as being a remarkably caring and reliable friend and roommate for Gene. For example, “Finny saves Gene from falling out of the tree when he loses his balance” (Knowles, 31), this quote indicates that Finny saved Gene’s life and shows Finny’s kind
Once Finny is thoroughly introduced, you begin to gain a better understanding of Gene’s feelings. Finny is perfect on paper he is athletic, naïve, charming, outgoing, the list goes on and on. He is an example of all the things Gene isn’t which makes him “competition”. In chapter 4 Gene says, “We were even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all” (54).
Gene in the second part of the book comes to terms with reality, or his distorted version and begins to try and correct it. He becomes more and more suspicious of Finny, wondering about their friendship: “Then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn at the beach. Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies”.(24). Gene begins to examine and analyze his relationship with his friend. Gene matures when he asserts these ideas.
A Separate Peace and Dead Poets Society Compare and contrast There are many things we can compare and contrast between Dead Poets Society and A Separate Peace. The two stories are more similar than different. Both Dead poets society and A Separate peace did something illegal or “off limits” like John Knowles says in the book. Going to the cave, and having the dead poets society are similarities with A Separate Peace because in the Separate Peace the kids jumped off of the tree and had the super suicide society of the summer session.
Gene and Finny are the main characters in this story, they teach you a lot about their friendship. Finny and Gene’s friendship can be described by their rivalry and loyalty, betrayal and guilt, and confession and forgiveness. The first stage of Finny and Gene’s friendship is loyalty and rivalry. Gene usually does what Finny wants to do.
The movie unveils Neil’s conformity struggles with his tragic suicide, due to the fact that his father hates that he his an aspiring actor. Dead Poets Society has revealed how conformity to Neil’s father’s wishes weren’t what Neil wanted to pursue in his life. He fell in love with acting, and Mr. Keaton inspired him to pursue his dreams. Unfortunately, his dad pressured him to do well in academics, in hopes of him becoming a doctor.
Throughout the movie, Neil went to a cave away from people. Furthermore, Neil’s friends joined him to have fun with the Dead Poets Society, a group Neil recreated after hearing that his professor, Mr. Keating, had been involved in when he was a student at Welton. Overall, Neil Perry was a great example of transcendentalism throughout the entire movie. One transcendental quality Neil possessed was his love for the beauty of words. Neil Perry was a good student; he wanted to do what was best for him and not what his mom and dad wanted.
Gene believes that Finny and he hate each other, until he realizes Finny’s pureness, which Gene can not stand. At first, Gene believes that Finny wants to exceed him, and that the two are rivals. Everyone at Devon likes Finny. The teachers adore him, the students look up to him, the athletes aspire
Gene and Finny are different in many ways. Gene is from the South, so going to a school in the North is a little odd for him. He doesn’t have the nicest house, but it is suitable for him. On the other hand, Finny lives in a beautiful, white house. This would seem to be the opposite of where Finny would live, with his outgoing personality.
Neil Perry had so much pressure from his dad, Mr.Perry, because he wanted him to achieve more than him and his family ever did. Mr. Perry cared about his son, he just expressed it through conformity and discipline. He sets standard for Neil such as, being a doctor. He does not let him follow his dreams to be an actor, because he chose his path already. Neil loved acting and his dad did not approve and acted like his dreams were not important.
Keating’s unique teaching methods start to mold the boys’ minds in becoming individuals. The boys revive the Dead Poets Society club that Mr. Keating was originally a part of. Resurrecting Mr. Keating’s Dead Poets Society, the boys start sneaking out at night to a cave where they have their secret meetings. To discover himself, Neil finds auditions will be held in town for a play and decides he wants to audition. Neil’s roommate, Todd Anderson, attempts to persuade him not to go against his father’s wishes and anger him.
Neil Perry is the leader of his friends, and the leader of the Dead Poets Society. He is the most intense and driven of his friends, and he has a hard time balancing his interests and his responsibilities. He is an uncompromising person, and he cannot seem to put his emotions, which are as intense as he is, into perspective, which leads to his drastic behavior throughout the film. In Welton Academy, Neil Perry is a popular, confident student who is outspoken and who understands the value of discretion, obedience, and discipline. However, throughout the plot of the film, we watch Neil become a young man who values his passion, talent, and his need to explore himself and his interests outside of his father’s plans for him.
Neil Perry was an incredible and very interesting character in Dead Poet Society. He seems to be the most transcendental character in the movie besides their teacher, John Keating (Quoting Henry David Thoreau) “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life” (Leonard). He shows how much he cares about others feelings and how being creative/doing what you love is more important than being in school to be the same person that everyone else is trying to be. Many of the kids don’t want to be a normal average person but they are forced to by their family.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, TUCAS-Tirupattur. Why Comparative Literature The distance between two nations is very small and Universe has became a global village. No man can confine to one nation, to one Language or to one culture.