Transindentalism
To describe what transcendentalism is to someone would just take too long and knowing my skills of explaining, I won't even try. So, to sum it up as short as possible. I would have to use one single phrase from the movie "Dead Poets Society". It's said by Mr. Keatings on one of his first days teaching. As he's standing behind a group of kids and he tells them to "seize the day". That to me describes all of what transcendentalism is, it tells them to have no regrets, to stop and smell the roses, don't follow rules just because they're there, do it because they mean something to you, follow your gut instincts. I find all these meanings in that one little phrase. Most people are afraid to do what Mr. Keatings had told them to do. Seizing the day would mean that you would have to be yourself, to make your own choices. With a school like Welton people did become afraid and they lashed back, trying to get people back to the original rules and the everyday routines. In the beginning of the movie, all the boys did as they were told, they said the four pillars as they were told and they followed what ever there parents had told them even if it wasn't something they wanted. One good example of this would be when Neil Perry's father had t
All the boys did different things that had made them feel alive, that made them feel themselves. One that stuck out at me was Neil Perry's. All he had wanted to do was to act in a play; he had wanted that more then anything else. When he finally got the part he was overwhelmed with happiness. He knew that it would have gone against his father's wishes if he had gone on with his play. So he decided to go on with it with out permission. In the end his father did find out, and no matter how much Mr. Keatings had told him to tell his father how he felt about acting he knew that it wouldn't change his fathers mind. After the fist night his father had met up with him in the theater and brought him home. As they were talking about Neil's actions, one thing that Mr. Perry had said struck out at me, it was when he said "why do you insist on defying us?" With this one remark it was said that he had no idea how much it had meant to Neil to be on that play. And after the suicide He still didn't know. And he will never know. All he'll do is to place blame on the closes thing to him, and it was Mr. Keating that had taught the kids to supposedly rebel. In this case I don't think it was the teachers teaching that got to Neil but, in a way it was Neil's fault for being to chicken to speak out, he had the perfect chance to do so, that moment of silence could of changed everything. But he didn't. But then again even if he had told his father how he felt about the play it would
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Approximate Word count = 989
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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