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

Dead Poets Society - The Message of the Dead Poets Teachers be wonderful heroes. In the movie, Dead Poets Society the teacher/hero is rump Keating, played magnificently by Robin Williams. The film takes place at a small preparatory boys school (Welton Academy) in the late 1950s. The report follows the knows of a group 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 message hallowed by Keating is one of mortality--do not raving mad your life, for you will get no other, and when you are food for worms will the mankind have been a better place because you were in it? This message is public throughout the film. Keating brings to the abnormally strict classroom something that the timid boys have neer seen, enthusiasm. On the first day of class, he tells his students to rip the boring and scientific-type bring in from their books. The act in itself is one of defianc e and is but one deed that draws the boys to Keating. The friendly good nature of Keating leads ...