The movie Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989) is set in the 1950's and it focuses on the life of a group of upper-class boys confined in a private boarding school and their reaction to the arrival of a new English teacher who is completely the opposite from the rest of their teachers. This new teacher encourages them to "seize the day" by doing what they really want to do, even if it means breaking the rules set by their parents or by the school. Dead Poets Society is a clear representation of the oppression suffered by teenagers in a society in which they were not allowed to decide or even to think for themselves. This is exposed in the movie through two factors: the parent-children relationship and the teacher-student one.

The first factor is given by the boys' relationship with their parents, in which they have to obey...