Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; the Twists of Life.

Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; The Twists of Life.


    Significant experiences are moments in life that create change not only in
one's present period of life, but also dramatically alter one's view of the
surrounding and forthcoming events.   The impacts of such experiences are the
opening of new doors in life, the realization of possibilities one would have
never imagined sitting right under one's nose and the perception of details one
never thought important before.   They mostly temper peoples views of events,
shedding a different hue of light upon them, revealing multiple possibilities
that were once left in shadow.   In Dead Poet's society, a handful of students
discover through the exuberance of their English teacher what kinds of lives
they had been leading, and what their lives could be.   One student in particular,
Neil Perry,   discovers a whole new world and his life is irreversibly changed as
a result of the impact of his association with Mr. Keating.
The lives of all the boys were drastically changed the day they met Mr.
Keating. "Carpe Diem" he told them. "Seize the day, make you lives
extraordinary."   With these few words, Mr. Keating opened the minds of his
students to the broad possibilities that life held for them.   The boys learned
that they deserved more than the daily routine, that they were not satisfied
with living up to the expectations of others.   As a result, they re-established
the Dead Poet's society, and consequently experienced what they had been
protected from previously.   The most significant change wrought from both the
arrival of Mr. Keating and the re-instatement of the Dead Poet's Society was
Neil Perry's change in attitude.   He realized what his dreams were, and to
accomplish them, he had to do something he had never dared to do in the past,
disregard the will of his father.   Having lived under the iron rule of an
oppressive father his entire life, Neil's spirit was in danger of smothering to
death.   The Dead... [continues]

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