Dead Poets Society

Currently there is constant pressure to be better then the best. In the upper class society particularly, there is a tremendous strain on adolescents to excel beyond their peers. In high-income families where future doctors and lawyers are made, there is often too much pressure put on an individual. When the stress is too severe, sometimes the only way out is to take ones own life. There is a strong example of this in the movie Dead Poet's Society. This remarkable movie tends to focus primarily, on the pressures of society.
In the movie Dead Poet's Society, a student by the name of Neil Perry, finds the pressures of his father and society too overbearing and decides to take his own life. As a student in the wealthy Welton Prepatory Academy, his father had total control over his life. His father wants him to become a doctor and Neil has other plans in mind. He quotes a portion of a poem by Henry David Thoreau, "I wanted to suck the marrow out of life. To put to rout all that was n...