Character Development in Dead Poets Society Throughout the history of the movie industry and since man began to tell stories, there has been one dilemma. It is not the plot, nor the setting, nor any other device of writing, but that of character development. By the time our society invented the movies, character development had become a fine and ancient art in the world of written literature. But with the creation of the film came a new problem: how does one develop a character that we can also see and hear? The Dead Poets Society is an excellent example of character development be