" To find something like this happening nowadays would be quite rare, for it is now well understood about the need for teachers to give their students time to learn properly. Already the mounting expectations to perform are thrown upon the students, and to conform to these demands is the only way to please and succeed. As Mr Nolan, the headmaster of Welton, says to Neil Perry "We expect big things from you this year." The pressure to succeed is driven into these boys almost daily. The boys use this strict code as a source of rebellious behaviour and they reform the old Dead Poets Society, to savour their curious need to defy authority. .
Using this code is a source of teenage rebellion, six particular students reform the infamous Dead Poets Society, largely due to curiosity and the need to defy authority. Curiosity is an innate feature within all of us, and modern teenagers are still exploring the same old roads travelled by the last generation. The boys regularly smoke and drink, and come in contact with girls from the township, all things the school would frown upon. They are absolutely amazed by a soft porn picture of a nude woman, and laugh with absolute cheek because they know how the school and their parents would view such a picture. Subjects such of these in the 1950s were taboo, and with the hunger to explore unknown territory, these six boys will try it all. But in relation to real life, this kind of occurrence is common, and is now looked upon as a normal part of growing up. When they find an old school book, they are curious to find out what their English teacher Mr Keating's involvement was with a particular society, entitled the Dead Poets Society. When asked about it Mr Keating simply explains "We let poetry dip from our tongue's like honey. Spirits soared, women swooned and Gods were created." The magical romanticism of such an idea entraps the boys to reform the society.