An In-depth Look at Dead Poets Society

The very decade referred to as the 1950's was an extremely conservative and straight arrowed time in America. Welton Academy followed this formula to a t. Tradition and excellence in education were the standards in which free thinking was stopped. This was seen as a contender for possibly crippling a Welton Academy student's chance of getting a traditional education. 

Every student was ordered to follow the four pillars that the school stood for. The rest of their very lives were already layed out for them by their parents. All of them were going to graduate from academy, attend an prestigious Ivy League college, grab onto a safe and non dangerous field such as medicine or legal practice. Todd, Neil, Knox, Steven, Charlie, Gerard and Richard all decided to take a lesser known road in their journey with Mr. Keating as their captain of the ship. their lives would never be the same from this moment on.

Communication is one important aspect of life. Communicating with one another and telling each other how we feel is how we know peoples' feelings in life. Before Mr. Keating started to teach, the environment of the English class was very lacking in the communication aspect. Typical methods of replying were basically only speak when you are asked to or when you are asked a question. 

Mr. Keating knocked down these traditional walls. He encouraged these boys to express their honest feelings. These young men had never interacted with a teacher so well like they did with Mr. Keating. The sense of a sender and a receiver was very one sided. Students were always the receivers and the head teacher was always the sender. It was never allowed before to be the other way around with students being the sender and the teacher being the receiver.