Dead Poets Society
Sometimes in life people can come along and touch our lives in unexpected ways. When a movie is produced in such a way as to depict events like this it is classified as a drama. The dictionary definition of a drama is a situation of events involving interesting or intense conflicts of forces. Now any good drama must contain numerous interesting aspects as well as conflicts. This was the case with Mr. Keating and the boys in the movie The Dead Poets Society. This drama is by far among the greatest movies I have ever watched. The main character Mr. Keating, a professor at an all boys school, taught the boys in his class so many lessons that they would have never have learned from another teacher. Looking at scenes from the movie, and lines from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, we can see just how important the lessons were that Keating was attempting to teach the boys. By illustrating points such as Keating's philosophy on seizing the day, walking in your own way and never living your life for someone else you can see why some of life's most valuable lessons are learned from the most unusual places as well as why this is such a great drama.Mr. Keating reminded the boys to seize each day
Besides "Carpe Diem", Keating also taught the boys to "walk their own way." One of the most important lessons that Keating taught the boys was to be an individual no matter what anyone else tells them. This took place in the scene where he took them all out into the courtyard and told them to start walking. The point of this was to demonstrate that after walking for a little while, everyone started walking the same way. He wanted to show them how difficult it is to maintain your own beliefs when everyone else is doing something different then you. Then he told them all to walk their own way. He wanted them to know that they should do that in life. This was the same point Emerson was trying to make in his poem "Self Reliance." He said, "Imitation is suicide," He also said "the great man is he who in the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." He was trying to say that if you try to be like everyone else you may as well be killing yourself. No matter what, you should always do what you believe, and maintain your individuality no matter what people say, or tell you to do. Not only did he teach them that they shouldn't act like anyone else, he also taught them that they should live their own lives. Keating taught them the great lesson of living your life for yourself, and not for anyone else. I recall the scene where Neill came in to ask Mr. Keating for advice about his father. He had a passion for acting that he father disapproved of. His father had his whole life planned out for him, and the way he wanted his life to be. It didn't matter to him what
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