Sometimes in life, people can come along and touch our lives in unexpected ways. This was the case with Mr. Keating, an English teacher at Welton Academy, and his students in the movie Dead Poets Society. Welton Academy is an elite board school that follows four standards: Tradition, Honor, Excellence, and Discipline. The school provided to its students with many strict and structured lessons to prepare them for their future. Although when a new young and exciting English and poetry teacher named John Keating came to the school, with his passion and determination to teach his students to live life with absolute power and confidence, he turned their world upside-down and with his "special" teaching method. Mr. Keating had moved his students for a love of poetry and learning how to find their own voice, passion, and confidence in themselves.
However, all Mr. Keating did was cross boundaries that should not be crossed by someone in a position of authority and respect, especially in a traditional and principal school such as Welton Academy. He encouraged his students how to live their lives to the fullest but didn't show them the line between right and wrong, dream and reality, things we shouldn't do and things we should, the line between these things are very thin and easy to cross without knowing it. That's why all of his inspirational talks were misleading his students into something immature, thoughtless, and careless. He also did not teach his students any proper lessons about Poetry or the beauty of Literature; all he did was talk about his opinions and his thoughts on any given day. Mr. Keating also allowed his students to go against the school's strict rules without thinking of its consequences as well as other people surrounding them. He let the boys to be completely selfish and disregardful when it came to decision-making.
To begin with, Mr. Keating inspired his students to "care diem", which means to "seize the day". He was trying to tell them that if you want your life to be extraordinaire, you must take risks; nothing is gained without them. Consequently, due to Mr. Keating's inspirational talks, seven boys in the movie misinterpreted his ideas into something more daring and rebellious. For instance, when Knox Overstreet, a student in Mr. Keating's English class, fell in love with the daughter of his father's friend Chris, Knox interpreted "seize the day" in his own way and believed that she was the one. Even when he knew that she had already been engaged with somebody else, he still tried to pursue Chris. He even skipped school and went to her school instead to watch her, and spent time to make poems about her; despite the fact that she said she only saw him as a friend and got beaten up badly by her boyfriend, Knox still continued to follow her. Knox's overreaction was one example that clearly showed how Knox did not realize that his actions could be considered as stalking or annoying someone, not admiring them. He only ca...
