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Thus he becomes, much like the title sailor of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, a figure who is martyred as a result of intolerance. Budd draws the ire of the captain of his ship because he is attractive and charismatic in a way that defines conventional maritime rules and conventions. Budd is literally hung out to dry upon a mast, while Williams is only symbolically strung up -- but the kind of hatred of the new that both figures call upon is the same impulse depicted in both Romantic texts, of the film and the novella. "Oh captain, my captain," say the boys, overcoming the natural timidity all of them feel, as they jump up upon their desks in a show of support. By uniting in common bonds, forming a solidarity of purpose and ideological unity against tradition and by using Whitman's words to embody their lives, they demonstrate a true Romantic spirit -- art is in life, not learning about life through analysis, charts, and dusty pages.
The setting of an American preparatory school in New England seems uniquely appropriate for a screenwriter to inveigh against the type of ideals that New England authors such as Melville, Hawthorne, and Emerson all wrote against. Passion,...
The Puritan stress upon predetermination and fate suggested that spontaneous appreciation was to be distrusted, and the idea that nature was good, rather than potentially carnal ("It's God calling and he wants girls to be admitted," notes one student, during an assembly, and is promptly expelled) is something denied by the leadership of the prep school and the authorities Emerson and Melville wrote against in their works.
Works Cited
Dead Poets Society." (1989) Starring Robin Williams. Directed by Peter Weir.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature."1839. Full text available 11 Jan 2005 at Oregon State English Department Website. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-emerson-a.html#ChapterI
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. Full text available 11 Jan 2005 at University of Virginia Crossroads, English Department Website. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/bb_main.html
Works Cited
Dead Poets Society." (1989) Starring Robin Williams. Directed by Peter Weir.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature."1839. Full text available 11 Jan 2005 at Oregon State English Department Website. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-emerson-a.html#ChapterI
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. Full text available 11 Jan 2005 at University of Virginia Crossroads, English Department Website. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/bb_main.html
Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Specifically, it will contain a critical analysis of the text. "Hope Leslie" is a romantic novel that sheds light on Puritanical views of the time, and involves two young heroines who both love the same man. This novel indicates the differences between Hope, a young New England Puritan, and Magawisca, a young Native American Pequod. They both
Ross (1988) notes the development of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century and indicates that it was essentially a masculine phenomenon: Romantic poetizing is not just what women cannot do because they are not expected to; it is also what some men do in order to reconfirm their capacity to influence the world in ways socio-historically determined as masculine. The categories of gender, both in their lives and in their
" James a.S. McPeek further blames Jonson for this corruption: "No one can read this dainty song to Celia without feeling that Jonson is indecorous in putting it in the mouth of such a thoroughgoing scoundrel as Volpone." Shelburne asserts that the usual view of Jonson's use of the Catullan poem is distorted by an insufficient understanding of Catullus' carmina, which comes from critics' willingness to adhere to a conventional -- yet incorrect
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