Dynamic Characters In Dead Poets Society

“Dead Poet’s Society” Throughout the movie “Dead Poet’s Society” many characters change, while others do not. Those who do change are called dynamic characters and those who do not change are called static characters. The dynamic characters find themselves, and change through the help of their teacher, Mr. Keating, and due to the unfortunate event of a death of a classmate. While many of the boys change the one that changes the most is Todd Anderson. Not only do the boys change, but so do the teachers. Mr. Keating changes, but he also changes the other teachers. Mr. Keating influenced his students and his peers. Todd Anderson starts out extremely shy and timid at first. He was the new student, and he was going into the school having to follow his Valedictorian and National Merit Scholar’s brother footsteps, which is hard enough, but he also struggles with dyslexia. He is placed as Neil Perry’s roommate. Both boys receive neglect from their parents, and it helps to bond them. As the
Keating also changes his peers around him. As being a student once, Mr. Keating was used to all the lectures and sitting in classrooms reading straight from books, a boring way to teach. He decides to teach in a different more unique way. In one of the first scenes he has his students rip the introduction out of their poetry books. While they were doing this the Latin teacher walks in thinking the students were rebelling only to find Mr. Keating encouraging it. Mr. Keating also brings his students outside to the court yard and onto the fields to teach them poetry. The Latin teacher constantly watches Mr. Keating give his unique lessons, and by the end of the movie has taken his students outside too. The Latin teacher changes from the normal way of teaching to a nonconformity way of teaching, where as many people are conforming, he unconforms. Mr. Keating teaches him too that being a free thinker is more important than being part of the