Mr. Keating's Carpe Diem Boys, Size The Day !

He was often punished when his brothers weren 't, even if they were doing the same thing. He was able to be adventurous but instead was stuck with guilt. Throughout his years he also faced the emotional toll of abuse in many ways. One way his mother did this was by no longer calling him by his name, and not referring to him as a human. Dave states in his book, “that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an “it”.” Children and adolescents go through a stage where they are trying to figure out who they are. With an abusive mother who takes away your identity it would be really hard to figure out who you are and you would be confused on what roles to play. Erikson’s stages emphasize family and culture. Erikson noted that psychological conflicts, especially in childhood within families, affect people lifelong.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare easily blurs the lines of reality by inviting the audience into a dream. He seamlessly toys with the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Among the patterns within the play, one is controlled and ordered by a series of contrasts: the conflict of the sleeping and waking states, the interchange of reality and illusion, and the mirrored worlds of Fairy and Human. A Midsummer Night's Dream gives us insight into man's conflict with characteristics of human behavior.

his fathers custody, and in the beginning of the story, he did not want to help his father

Neil Perry is also a troubled young man within himself because he doesn’t want to conform to the life his father wants for him. Neil wants to be his own person and to the things he likes to do but he is afraid to stand up to his father. His father is a phony conformist such as Holden describes his father in Catcher in the Rye. Neil’s father makes him quit the school paper because one of his teachers wants him to, when Neil tries to stand up for himself, his father scolds him and tells him when he graduates medical school he can do what he wants, until then, he must obey what his father tells him. When he does finally do what he wants, when he finally incorporates the ‘’carpe diem’’ phrase into his life and made the decision for himself to act in the play, his father decides to take him out of Welton and send him to military school. Neil felt the only to break his father’s shackles was to kill himself. I think that Neil felt that he couldn’t bare

Neil Perry only wanted to be an actor, but his father wanted him to go to Harvard and become a doctor. Neil was able to get a led role in a play without his father finding out until the night before the play. As the play ended Neil's father took him away. That night Neil knew he could never be freed from his father, so he shot himself in his father's office. Although Neil's dark side was not as bad as Gene, he did what every person is afraid of and that was death. No one wanted death or wanted death for anyone else but, in the movie it was thought to be his only

Ex. 2 “I understand you're upset about the main character in the play but you’ll get the part best time.”

Next, neil shows his father that he's going to do as he pleases and does the play anyway without considering the punishments. Although neil shows both traits he ends his life showing what nature means to him by leaving the reef from the play on his open window

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

His father had told him to drop out of the play but he decided not to. This happens after the teacher had a talk with Neil and told him to express his emotions to his father about the play and convince him to let him be in it. This shows nonconformity because Neil went against his father and acts in the play because he was really passionate towards acting even though his family thought it was a waste of time.

Later that night, in the scene of the suicide, Mr. Perry sees his son on the floor, the camera angled downwards towards Neil. This portrays him as vulnerable and insignificant after taking his own life, as if his father has finally realised how helpless his son was. Neil’s suicide was ultimately an amalgamation of the pressures to conform being imposed on him by Welton Academy and his father, as well as the oppression of his freedom. Similarly, Billy’s suicide was instigated by the pressures to conform being imposed on him by Nurse Ratched and his mother throughout his life.

Neil Perry demonstrates another example of the transcendental trait, non-conformity. Neil Perry’s father and the headmaster have high hopes for his future as a doctor. Neil does not want to be a doctor, he wants to be an actor. Neil gets the lead in a school play and when his father finds out, he insist he quits Neil is taken out of Welton by his father. Throughout the movie Neil believes in himself and tries to inspires others.

In 'King Lear' this is through the demonstration of succession from one ruler to another. While in 'Birdman' this is through the aging of the actors and their retirements. In 'Birdman' this comes to a head when Riggan feels disrespect towards himself after Mike tells him in "they don't know you, your work. They know the guy from the bird suit." This ultimately adds flame to the fire and Riggan becomes even more desperate to prove to the world that he is something. With Mike understanding "this is how we do things." Shakespeare shows this but ultimately shows that this is futile as seen when Edmund tries to succeed his father Gloucester's influence despite being his illegitimate son and Edgar being the rightful successor. This ultimately makes Edmund more desperate for power and results in a dispute that can only be resolved in a duel. Though at the end of the play admits his actions were wrong and "The wheel is come full circle" (A5, S2, 203). This shows that life is really futile and while what we experience may be considered exclusive to ourselves, the reality is how life is just one large cyclic

In his comedic play, A Midsummers Night Dream (1595), William Shakespeare utilizes the enchanting adventures of young Athenian lovers and a group of low-class rudimentary actors and their shared experiences with supernatural creatures to portray the opportunity of being in command of their destiny. By presenting conflicts to these three diverse realms, Shakespeare allows these characters to connect despite their hierarchical distinctions to reveal their determination to conquer their adversity. He uses dramatic irony, metaphor, and symbolism to heighten the audience's awareness of their self-determination and their firm control on their future. Shakespeare inspires the public by instilling in them that despite their challenging circumstances, they can still be masters of their own fate, bestowing a feeling of newfound hope and freewill.

Neil Perry was an aspiring actor, though his father wanted him to forget about acting and focus on his school studies and becoming a doctor. Neil embraced the lessons he learned from Mr. Keaton and took a chance and followed his heart and he starred in a play against his father’s wishes. Neil knew that he did not have his father’s consent or support about the play but he decided to do what he wanted.

In the the story Hamlet, Shakespeare teaches the reader multiple lessons on what the reader should know in their daily life. One of the things in Hamlet Shakespeare tries to teach the reader is that goals that many people want to achieve such as a dream job, or a dream house, or just a task in general can be achieved but with many obstacles and immolations throughout the process of doing so.