round seven of Williams’s character Keatings students, and tells of their eventual forming of the Dead Poet’s Society. The movie follows four of the boys in particular as they eagerly learn to live under Keatings influence, and begin to stand up for who they are in an attempt to seize the day. This movie is quick to introduce Williams characters as a unique man who easily inspires his audience to think about living life to it’s fullest, and right away viewers are made aware of what he has to offer to the movies theme. Keating’s teaching methods are unorthodox, and do not mingle well with what the schools conformist environment has to offer. Welton Academy screams for discipline and honors a straight-lined no nonsense, realist policy, while Keating holds close to individuality, and freedom of express. He has his students stand on desks in order for them to have a broader perspective on life. In one seen has them tear out an entire section in their class textbook—the section that made poetry look like it was something that could be put into a strict tradition. With his free spirited nature and witty charismatic behavior, Keating fascinates his student –the seven in particular—and quickly gains their respect and admiration. His passion for poetry is so skillfully presented, and their admiration for him makes them more than willing to learn, that it becomes easy for his message to charms its way into his student’s minds, and instill itself in their actions.

The theme of this movie comes to us in two parts one is that life is fleeting, and we are only mortal, we must live life to it’s fullest, we must seize the day. The movie is straight out in introducing theme, opening of Keating’s class, the students are taken into a hall where they look at pictures of the past, and Keating explains that all men die, and right out he tells them to seize the day—suck the marrow out of life. In this lesson he means to live life to it’s fullest potential. The other part of this theme is that to seize the day, we must learn to live life under our own identity, even if that means stepping out of conformity. In this movie the second theme has some draw backs as it often leads to a rebellion of authority, but this movie does not mislead us completely. Through out the movie these themes live at one with each other. We witness this all take place through the four main characters. Knox’s character falls in love with Chris; a girl who is unattainable to him, but his desires for her are so completely filled with that which is life he is willing to do anything to have her. He knows that he would never have a chance with her, but in one seen he calls her up on the phone, he hesitates at first, but then decides that he must seize the day, and follows through with his plans. His desire to live life to it fullest, leads him to act out in a rebellious way, he refuses to give up on attaining her even after he is almost beaten by her boyfriend. Charlie is another character who honors the ideal about living life, hid passion for gi

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