Everyone has one teacher who changed the way they view the world. To the students at Welton High School, John Keating (played by actor Robin Williams) was one of those once in a lifetime teachers. Stuck in a school focused on nothing but tradition, the students had no choice but to follow the way things had always been done. It was not until the new John Keating, an English teacher and alumni of Welton, came and shook things up a bit that the students began to long for something more. Mr. Keating used bizarre tactics to teach his students how to do things “outside of the box”. These tactics included walking around outside, playing soccer, standing on desks, teaching from the ground, and even encouraging students to tear pages out of their textbooks.
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This club was known as the Dead Poet’s Society. The students decided to revive the Dead Poet’s Society and would sneak out of school and into a nearby cave and read poetry by dead poets, and even wrote and recited poems of their own making. This was their act of defiance. This is how they expressed themselves and freed their minds. Through Mr. Keating’s teachings the students learned how to be individuals and decided to take a stand for what they believed in, even after tragedy struck within the Welton Community (Dead Poet’s Society, 1989). In fact, it was in the darkness of tragedy where the students found the individual lights within themselves. The writer and the director of Dead Poet’s Society were trying to bring to light the issues that come with stifling self-realization and self-expression due to forced conformity, which is a problem that continues to be relevant in society
This club was known as the Dead Poet’s Society. The students decided to revive the Dead Poet’s Society and would sneak out of school and into a nearby cave and read poetry by dead poets, and even wrote and recited poems of their own making. This was their act of defiance. This is how they expressed themselves and freed their minds. Through Mr. Keating’s teachings the students learned how to be individuals and decided to take a stand for what they believed in, even after tragedy struck within the Welton Community (Dead Poet’s Society, 1989). In fact, it was in the darkness of tragedy where the students found the individual lights within themselves. The writer and the director of Dead Poet’s Society were trying to bring to light the issues that come with stifling self-realization and self-expression due to forced conformity, which is a problem that continues to be relevant in society