Preliminary Opening Sequence Analysis 3

Character and setting are easily established in this movie 'Dead Poets Society'. The backdrop being a church which encourages the audience to assume that this will be a narrative with a high amount of influence from religion. The priest embarks on informing its congregation of the schools high success rate with entrance to ivy league universities, coaching the audience to take in that this is a prestigious and respected school; the kind of school that would not tolerate alternative learning. The priest also inadvertently makes clear the period of the movie which is a hundred years after 1859.