Bird symbolism

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2005)

The flock of birds that are scared away by Knox could represent the sort of people who governs their life by conformity, and is scared by someone new, not like themselves. Knox is like the new way of thinking that scares everyone. In the forest at night when the boys go to their first Dead poet's meeting a crow flies out from out from the trees and scares them, which could signify the boys coming out of their militaristic conformity and becoming independent. The boys are like the crow that thinks on its own, while as the geese and starling flocks are like most of the teachers and the other boy who let tradition and their parents direct them, mindlessly.