Dead Poet Society
Honors American Literature- 091 3
April 8, 2013
Dead Poet Society- Free Yourself from Others Rule
“Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!” This quote is empathized by Mr. Keating, an audacious alumni teacher, and the wily group of young students, Neil, Todd, Cameron, Pitts, Charlie, Knox, and Meeks, throughout the movie Dead Poet Society to be free of others and do their own business. Mr. Keating teaches in a very odd manor teaching the class to break tradition and be your own person. The four pillars of Welton Academy are honor, discipline, tradition, and excellence in which Mr. Keating beaks three of the four pillars while teaching the boys. The boys find interest inn their new teacher and look him up in the school yearbook and learn he was the leader of a group named the Dead Poet Society. The boys then later restart the society in spite of the school and “Seize the Day!”. But did the boys take Mr. Keating's advice the wrong way and disappoint themselves or was Mr. Keating wrong to teach the boys to think for themselves. Mr. McAllister, the Latin teacher and friend to Mr. Keating, and Mr. Nolan warned Mr. Keating about teaching the boys to be freethinkers and they were right to warn him, but wrong about the boys. The boys could take the advice to be freethinkers in anyway and do what they want with the knowledge. Neil interoperates freedom by disobeying his father and following his dreams in becoming an actor. While Neil becomes an actor he is caught in the act by his father and pulled from Welton and sentenced to Military School, ruining his life, so he decides that he must kill himself to become free once and truly forever. Todd takes freethinking and stays himself until Mr. Keating is in a predicament and finally lets loose and takes a stand for Keating. Charlie, Newanda, was always a free spirited teen and takes the advice and outbreaks Welton and does his own thing. Charlie gets expelled from Welton for his funny business and for standing up for Mr.
April 8, 2013
Dead Poet Society- Free Yourself from Others Rule
“Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!” This quote is empathized by Mr. Keating, an audacious alumni teacher, and the wily group of young students, Neil, Todd, Cameron, Pitts, Charlie, Knox, and Meeks, throughout the movie Dead Poet Society to be free of others and do their own business. Mr. Keating teaches in a very odd manor teaching the class to break tradition and be your own person. The four pillars of Welton Academy are honor, discipline, tradition, and excellence in which Mr. Keating beaks three of the four pillars while teaching the boys. The boys find interest inn their new teacher and look him up in the school yearbook and learn he was the leader of a group named the Dead Poet Society. The boys then later restart the society in spite of the school and “Seize the Day!”. But did the boys take Mr. Keating's advice the wrong way and disappoint themselves or was Mr. Keating wrong to teach the boys to think for themselves. Mr. McAllister, the Latin teacher and friend to Mr. Keating, and Mr. Nolan warned Mr. Keating about teaching the boys to be freethinkers and they were right to warn him, but wrong about the boys. The boys could take the advice to be freethinkers in anyway and do what they want with the knowledge. Neil interoperates freedom by disobeying his father and following his dreams in becoming an actor. While Neil becomes an actor he is caught in the act by his father and pulled from Welton and sentenced to Military School, ruining his life, so he decides that he must kill himself to become free once and truly forever. Todd takes freethinking and stays himself until Mr. Keating is in a predicament and finally lets loose and takes a stand for Keating. Charlie, Newanda, was always a free spirited teen and takes the advice and outbreaks Welton and does his own thing. Charlie gets expelled from Welton for his funny business and for standing up for Mr.