Dead Poets Society - The Message of the Dead Poets Essay -- Movie Film

Dead Poets Society - The Message of the Dead Poets Teachers are wonderful heroes. In the movie, Dead Poets Society the teacher/hero is John Keating, played splendidly by Robin Williams. The film takes place at a miniscule preparatory boys school (Welton Academy) in the late 1950s. The story follows the lives of a convocation of students and the way that Mr. Keatings teachings influence them. He encourages the boys to become freethinkers and to live life for the moment. The capacity hallowed by Keating is one of mortality--do not waste your life, for you will fuck off no other, and when you are food for worms will the world have been a better place because you were in it? This message is prevalent throughout the film. Keating brings to the abnormally strict classroom something that the timid boys have never seen, enthusiasm. On the number 1 day of class, he tells his students to rip the boring and scientific-type preface from their books. The act in itself is one o f defiance and is but one action that draws the boys to Keating. The friendly untroubled nature of Keating leads ...