Dead Poet's Society - Analysis in relation to What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Title: Dead Poets Society Date: Released during 1989 Author: Tania Modleski Source: Paramount Pictures Type of Text: Film Summary: Dead Poets Society explores the conflict between realism and romanticism as these contrasting ideals are presented to the students at an all boys 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. John Keating is a new English teacher with a passion …

…of Bonnie. Therefore, death in both films performed an important role for the protagonists to make their own discovery. However, there is still one difference between to two texts. Though in the prescribed text, Gilbert was able to free himself totally from the past along with the changes of Endora, Todd is still locked in the constrained ideology of the school. Therefore, Dead Poets Society has a less perfect ending as What's Eating Gilbert Grape.