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Cameron was friendly with Todd, so much so that Todd felt comfortable joking around and having fun with him. He wasn't shown doing anything like this with the other poets, excluding Neil. This may have been this way because Neil and Cameron were good friends. Now that I know what happened between these boys, I look back on this picture and tear up.
Mrs. Perry is visibly afraid of Mr. Perry. She has her back turned to him, in fear of facing her husband. She's frozen by what happened to Neil when her husband found out about the play. She knows that something bad will happen to their family soon.
When Meeks was being questioned by Mr. Hager, he was crying. In the first image, he is wiping tears from under his glasses. The second image confirms that Meeks was crying, he is seen holding a tissue. He truly missed Neil.
Here, Todd is asking Meeks what he told Mr. Hager, in regards to the Dead Poets Society. Meeks tell Todd to go away, and that he has to study. Time never stops for the grieving, and the bell at Welton keeps ringing.
Mr. Keating was talking with Mr. Nolan, and was visibly afraid for the future generations of kids that would attend Welton. Mr. Keating also knew that Mr. Nolan was not happy with him being there. Mr. Keating could sense that he was going to be terminated soon. Mr. Nolan was not ready for his teachings, and new way of thinking.
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DPS Quotes I Think About A LOT
“Words and ideas can change the world.”
“Bullshit, nothing’s impossible.”
“To indeed be a God!”
“But beauty, romance, poetry, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
“But room fairy, here comes Oberon.” - I think this every time I enter a room
“Carpe Diem.”
“ℐ 𝓈ℴ𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝒶𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒸 𝐘𝐀𝐖𝐏.”
“No :)”
“Mr Anderson thinks everything inside him is worthless and embarrassing.”
“His hands reach out and choke me.” 🫣
“It’ll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.” “:o”
Not a quote but when Todd jumps onto Neil when they’re playing football and he definitely knees him in the balls
“Your parents collect pipes, wow that’s really interesting!”
The entirety of Poetrusic… I’m a slut for the saxophone
“Did you bring any earplugs?”
“VOCABULARY!”
“So we can all stop beating off.”
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The two ways I think about Dead Poet's Society:
1. Neil Perry's death was unavoidable, needed and the only really good way the film ended. Anything else would have taught the lesson the film is supposed to teach wrong or less impressively.
2. Wtf do you mean Neil Perry died?!?! HAHAAHA (delusional laughter) well that's funny but super untrue because well if we're talking about the same Neil Perry then you're wrong because Neil Perry ran away after the play and became a Broadway actor and moved in with author and poet Todd Anderson who historians will later call Neil Perry's "best friend" and "roommate" but actually they were and still are very much in love and a super gay couple and they adopted four cats and a dog and continued meeting the other poets and lived happily ever after.
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I hate that these are the characters I can relate to
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i wanted to eat you / she's only eating me because she loves me
(beverly + eddie parallels: parents, incest, & repetition compulsion)
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Since I presented the Tragic Hero and Fatal Flaw and even got a prize for it, I will try and explain here how it works and maybe touch upon The Secret History.
Aristotle was the first one to define the tragic hero based on his studies on drama; and the tragic hero is usually the main character. Tragic heroes typically have heroic traits that earn them the sympathy of the audience, but also have flaws or make mistakes that ultimately lead to their own downfall.
He believed that a good tragedy must evoke feelings of fear and pity in the audience since he saw these two emotions as being fundamental to the experience of catharsis (the process of releasing strong or pent-up emotions through art). As Aristotle puts it, when the tragic hero meets his demise, "pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves."
Aristotle define some characteristics, and according to him, a tragic hero must:
Be virtuous: The character should be both capable and powerful (i.e. "heroic"), and also feel responsible to the rules of honor and morality that guided Greek culture. These traits make the hero attractive and compelling, gaining the audience's sympathy.
Be flawed: While being heroic, the character must also have a tragic flaw (also called hamartia) or more generally be subject to human error, and the flaw must lead to the character's downfall. On the one hand, these flaws make the character "relatable," someone with whom the audience can identify. Just as important, the tragic flaw makes the tragedy more powerful because it means that the source of the tragedy is internal to the character, not merely some outside force. In the most successful tragedies, the tragic hero's flaw is not just a characteristic they have in addition to their heroic qualities, but one that emerges from their heroic qualities—for instance, a righteous quest for justice or truth that leads to terrible conclusions, or hubris (the arrogance that often accompanies greatness). In such cases, it is as if the character is fated to destruction by his or her own nature.
Suffer a reversal of fortune: The character should suffer a terrible reversal of fortune, from good to bad. Such a reversal does not merely mean a loss of money or status. It means that the work should end with the character dead or in immense suffering, and to a degree that outweighs what it seems like the character deserved.
Knowing all these facts, THE TRAGIC FLAW is a literary device that adds dimensionality and reliability to a character. It also help extend the plot line leading to a tragic downfall. Tragic flaws add reliability by making characters more relatable, as humans tend to have positive and negative traits that impact their lives, just as character traits impact the course of the plot in a fictional story. Tragic flaws contribute to the plot by contributing either directly or indirectly to a character's tragic downfall.
Regarding The Secret History, Richard's fatal flaw was his desire and need for the aesthetic "a morbid longing for the picturesque", as he states in the opening. He was obsessed with how things should appear and aestheticism. The lengths to which characters are prepared to go to keep up appearances inevitably bring about their downfall.
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Donna Tartt said that for TSH she read “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” a lot, mainly for Henry Winter. I just think this is so interesting and makes me think about who would be the Jekyll to Winter’s Hyde.
Papen could be Jekyll, with Henry Winter being the evil Hyde. But so could Bunny, often portrayed as virtuous with a great reputation.
This novella also has so much queer connotations so do with that what you will.
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losing your virginity on your mother’s grave is the ultimate girlhood and horror combo
#mary shelley#mary shelly's frankenstein#percy shelley#i know it’s only alledged but still#girlhood#horror
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richie: ahhh you mad 😂😂
pennywise: ahhh you gay 😂😂
richie:
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Okay, but Todd jumping into Neil’s arms when they won the game 🥹
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i’ve been feeling so mentally exhausted by any kind of activity that involves more than three people it’s crazy
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talking about the clown movie again i can't let it die; bill and richie being friends is so important to me (richie being close to all of the Losers is important too but that'll be a post for another day) in the book richie told bill georgie's death wasn't his fault, consoled him when he started crying, went inside neibolt despite not wanting to, fucking fights the damn creature off, and at the end they cry and hug each other. i know the movie(s) couldn't jam everything in but come onnn man. they were such good friends
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in desperate need of donna tartt publishing another book to base my entire personality on
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