Questions and answers

1.

1) What does the Latin term "Carpe Diem"
mean?
2) Who is Nuwanda?
3) What problem does Neil face the day before
the play?
4) What advice does Mr. Keating give Neil?
5) What does Neil decide he really wants to do?

2.

1. What are the four "Pillars" of the Welton Academy?
Tradition, discipline, excellence, honour
2. There is much added pressure on students who attend
prestigious schools like Welton. Name two aspects of
education at Welton that are different from your
experience at school.
e.g. students at Welton wear uniforms, the teachers are
stricter, have to study more, etc.
3. What does the Latin term "Carpe Diem" mean?
seize the day (“ лови момент”)
4. What is the goal of Mr. Keating’s teaching?
To create free thinkers, to help his students seize
the day

3.

5. What happened at meetings of the Dead Poets’
Society?
The students read poems, talked, ate food, invited girls to
take part etc.
6. What is the purpose of language according to the
movie?
“to woo women”
7. Why does Mr. Keating stand on his desk?
Keating wants his students to remember to always see things
from different perspectives.
8. What does Neil decide he really wants to do?
Neil decides he really wants to be an actor.

4.

9. What is a yawp?
a loud/barbaric scream
10. What does Todd get for his birthday? What happens
to it?
Todd gets a desk set. Neil turns it into the “first unmanned
flying desk set”.
11. What happens to Knox at the party?
He is made drunk by other students.
12. Who is Nuwanda?
Charlie Dalton.
13. What does Charlie do to get the boys in trouble?
He published an article in the school paper, in the name of the DPS,
demanding that girls be admitted to Welton.

5.

14. What are the consequences of his action?
Mr. Nolan holds an assembly of all students where Charlie pretends to
receive a phone call from God saying girls should be admitted to Welton.
Nolan thinks Charlie wants to be expelled and punishes him by beating
him up.
15. What problem does Neil face the day before the play?
His father wants to prevent him from taking part in the play because Neil
has lied to him and not followed his orders.
16. What advice does Mr. Keating give Neil?
Keating advises Neil to talk to his father and explain his feelings about
acting.
17. How does Knox seize his day?
He woos Chris by visiting her in her school, reading a poem to her and
inviting her to a play with him.

6.

18. Does Neil have a talk with his father? If so, what is the result of
that talk?
Neil does not talk to his father before the play, only afterwards.
19. Why can’t Neil express what he really wants to do in life to his
father?
He is afraid of his father who has planned a career as a doctor for him.
20. What does the boys’ final statement tell Mr. Keating?
That it was Mr. Keating who Mr. Keating, who encouraged the boys to
organize the DPS. He also encouraged Neil Perry to follow his
obsession with acting against the will of his father. It was Keating’s
action that led directly to Neil’s death.
21. How has Todd’s character changed in the course of the film?
He becomes more confident and stands up for his opinion. In the end it
is him who stands on the desk for Keating first.

7.

22. What is the themes of this film?
there are many themes:s. love of poetry, that you
should seize the day, that you should be a free
thinker etc.
24. Why exactly did Neil take his own life?
Because he faced a life he did not want: to become a
doctor and not an actor. There was no possibility
for him to change his father’s opinion.