Dead Poets Society is a movie/novel about free thinking. It’s about learning to do as you want, and then do it. It’s “Carpe Diem” in a box. It’s about not sitting around all day dreaming about what you want, but seizing the day and go out and get whatever it is you want instead. It’s about some young students, just like me and my friends, who has been wrapped up in the same traditions for so long, that they obey to nothing, but the word of their teachers, and have forgotten what it is to take control. Nobody should ever decide the fate or destiny of another’s life, and that’s what Dead Poets Society is about.
The message of this movie/novel would have to be to not let anybody take control of your life. Since it is your life, you’re the one to decide what you want to do with it. The best example shown in the movie is where Neil (one of the main characters) feels that his passion is to act. His father feels differently, he wants’ Neil to become a doctor. When Neil faces that his father will not give in, and let Neil live out his passion, it becomes too much for Neil, and he shoots himself at his father’s office. Dead Poets Society is about a bunch of young students who finally realizes that they have to seize the day, do what they want to and not as everybody else tells them to, so that their lives will not be wasted. It fits into the novel of education because we see these young boys develop from being ordered to do as their parents’ say, to thinking free and have an opinion and a mind of their own, to live their lives as they want to live it. It is not quite a novel of education, because we do not see these students in their childhood or adult life, but then again we see what expectations they have had to live up to since their childhood, and what expectations they will make for themselves in their adult lives. Off course these students do not realize this all alone. They are helped by their new English teacher Mr. Keating or also referred to as “O Captain, My Captain.” It is he, who shows them that they don’t need to live up to any expectations from anybody, except those they make for themselves. The resemblance to The novel of education is shown in the end of the movie. The students who stands on their tables and calls out to Mr. Keating, this is the students who have truly found their place in the world. Maybe they have not quite learned the four pillars “Honor, Tradition, Discipline and Excellence” in the way it was supposed to, but each of them has learned to think free, and they have no one but Mr. Keating to thank for that. They show their respect for Mr. Keating one last time before he leaves the school, what for?
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