Mr Keating In Dead Poets Society

“Truth. Truth is like, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You kick at it, beat it, it’ll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.” In Dead Poets Society, Todd spoke these words in Mr. Keating’s class when they had to make their own poem. In real life, people from the day they are born till the day that they die try to fit in. Everyone likes being accepted. But the wise know to go against it, because it isn’t always right. Conformity can be very dangerous sometimes. In trying to seek what everyone else is doing, you can lose yourself in the process. Mr. Keating was one of those wise people who went against the flow; who believed that everyone can have different views and still have peace. In the movie Dead Poets Society, Mr. Keating took them into the corridor outside. He made them walk in a line, and after they were walking in step he showed that people try to be like others on default. He told them that it’s okay to do your own thing; have your own walk (in this example). When you keep thinking having your own walk is bad and not acceptable, but Mr. Keating showed them otherwise. But, a demonstration is different from doing the action. Usually in real
Standing up for what you believe in when it’s not popular vote is always hard. You can try to keep your stance, but when something goes wrong some people tend to go back to conformity because it has no consequences. Cameron was part of the “Dead Poets Society”, but, when Neil died, the administration questioned everyone part of his friend group. When they questioned Cameron, and he told them everything. He told them about the “Dead Poets Society”, and about Mr. Keating’s teachings. After they questioned everyone else; it made Mr. Keating lose his