Dead Poets Society Essay

Dead Poets Society Essay In the beginning of the movie when Mr. Keating takes all of his students out to the hall, and tells them to make their lives extraordinary, he is trying to tell them to be original. He’s trying to say that they need to be the person that they want to be, and not the person that the school or even their parents want them to be, because in the end it is their life and no one else's. Overall I think you can summarize Mr. Keating’s speech that he gives the boys in one sentence. Leave your mark, and make it original. Many of his students went on and personified the idea of, “make your life extraordinary,” but the student who I think personified it best, was Neil Perry. The reason that I think Neil personified it best is, because he stood up to his parents even though he knew that he would probably be taken out of school if he did the play. The reason that he decided to pursue his passion in acting was ultimately the words that Mr. Keating told his class …show more content…
He decided that he wanted to do what he wanted and not what his parents wanted. During the movie, you can tell that Neil doesn’t want to do what his parents tell him to do, because his father always says that Neil is going to go to school and become a doctor. He never asks Neil what he wants to do, and when Neil tells him that he likes acting, his father tells him to dropping it. Neil’s father tells him that he is not ruining the opportunities that he has provided for Neil, by pursuing acting. Later on in the movie people accuse Mr. Keating of pushing Neil to pursue his dream of acting, and while I think they are right, I don’t think that they realize how Mr. Keating pushed Neil to be himself. People in the movie think that Mr. Keating got to Neil constantly about what he should do, but I believe Neil knew what he had to do after the first day. After Mr. Keating pulled all of his students out into the hall, and told them, “ make your lives