Dead Poets Society Reflection

Carpe Diem, a word not spoken for many people, and a word unknown for most. To make the most of your present, to take what you have right now and enjoy it. We as a society forget to take advantage of life, we let it slip by us we let others rule over us, we let society and rules break our free-spirited minds. But for some, like in the Dead Poet Society, we must learn from the free to become free ourselves. To develop one's mind and body into something that is more than just what our parents or teachers tell us to be, but to grow from child to adulthood. To become independent free-thinking humans. The Dead Poet Society, a movie that will forever be known as one of the greatest. Six boys in a high demanding high school, driven there by their parents dream of them becoming successful. To become doctors, bankers, lawyers, ridiculed into thinking that is what they have to do. Until one professor, Mr. Keating, teaches them that life is more than following rules, life is more than doing exactly what you’re told to follow societies footsteps. They learn that through poetry they can overcome fear, or learn to love, or even follow your true dreams. The first scene that pops into my mind is when Mr. Keating takes his class outside to the pavilion. He tells three of …show more content…
The major point that I and even the characters in the movie took away from what Mr. Keaton taught was in fact carpe diem. Carpe diem being the first lesson taught to these children with growing bodies and minds to take their own path, create the world they themselves would want to live in and not follow what somebody who never lived told them to do. I think we can all take something from that in our own lives, even though we may be too young to understand or think that we are too old to change, there is always time to develop our minds and change the way we think about the