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Essay on Adolescence as portrayed in Dead Poets Society and Outside Providence
Periods of adolescence
In the ‘Dead Poets Society’ (1990) as well as in the ‘Outside Providence’ (1999), the years of middle adolescence is depicted. While in the former movie, there are a number of teenagers going through the life where there is little freedom and little opportunity to know themselves, in the later movie too, the teenage character (the protagonist) is also going a difficult stage in his late adolescence where all of them don’t know what o do with their lives.
Cognitive process in the movies
The cognitive processes involve theories that identifies and recognizes how and why people participate actively as well as consciously in learning (Fleet, 1991). The human life cycle is filled with actions and stages that differentiate from one another, yet, in one way or the other provide for the actions as well as behaviors that relate with one another in a sequential form. In the teen yeas, the adolescents experiences and experiments with their lives. They learn not just from their experience, but also, mostly, from the experiences of the people that surround them, their teachers, peers, friends and parents. For the most part, the adolescence years are the ones that do not take on life as a serious thing.
More time is spent having fun and enjoying every moment. Yet, in these years alone the influence of the surrounding is the greatest, the suffocation of others’ ideas is at peak while the adjustments to these ideas is the most difficult task ever to experience. The Dead Poets Society, originally written by N.H. Kleinbaum is a story that depicts the life stage from adolescence and onwards and how the human self adapts and adjusts to the changes in the life and behaves according to the things learnt in these tender years. The substitute teacher for English.................
