There are many times in the movie Dead Poets Society where transcendentalism is displayed but I am just going to discuss a few of them and transcendentalism in general. The movie Dead Poets Society is a very powerful and touching movie about a group of boys at a prep school (Welton) and the problems they are faced with and how to find themselves through their new English teacher John Keating played by Robin Williams. Transcendentalism is defined by nature and individualism, which are very noticeably displayed through out the movie. In this essay I am going to discuss a few of the times that transcendentalism is displayed in this movie.

First, the opening of the movie proved to be a contrast with transcendentalism. When the boys all pass the light of knowledge at the beginning of the movie, this reminded me of individualism because even thought they are all as one, they each have their own individual light. They speak of the four pillars, which are tradition, honor, disciplin

In conclusion the movie The Dead Poets Society was very similar with the ideas of transcendentalism. At the end of the movie the boys are sitting in the classroom, and one of them is told to read the pages that were ripped out of all of their books at the beginning. Mr. Keating is leaving the classroom, and one boy shouts out a comment about how it isn’t his fault. He then stands up on his desk and says “O’ captain, my captain” everyone looks around at each other, and slowly one by one the majority of the boys stand up on their desks and repeat the words “O’ captain, my captain.” The last words of the movie are spoken by Mr. Keating, in which he says “thank you boys, thank you.” He is the one thanking them, when he was the one that taught these boys so much, taught them how to find themselves, how to think freely, how to be an individual and how to consider the different, even though the boys are the ones who should be thanking him.

e and excellence. These are the guidelines or rules the boys must live by, just like

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