Todd Anderson : A New Student At Welton Academy

Mr. Keating’s class and lessons are very different from anything else at the school. He teaches his students to look at poetry and life and a whole new way. This new way of thinking that he teaches his students is very transcendentalist. This is shown through the poetry that he reads to his students and his overall message of “carpe diem” or “seize the day”. He reads a large amount of poetry from Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau who are both very transcendentalist writers. Mr. Keating also encourages his students to form the Dead Poets Society in which they open

One truth, Mr. Keating teaches the boys, is how to think for themselves, and to be their own individual. In one scene, in the Schoolyard, he shows the boys how they act the same. It was the way they were taught to be, but someone who wants to step out of line and change their lives. Mr. Keating explains how this is conformity. Mr. Keating wants them to express their creative ways, and to for themselves. Mr. Keating wants the boys to "beat of their own drum (Dead Poets Society)."(Dead Poets Society). Mr. Keating then teaches the boys to walk however they want. He then tells the boys they don’t have to follow what they don’t believe

In the movie Dead Poet’s Society Mr. Keating is also viewed as outcast and a person who does not conform to social norms. Mr. Keating is viewed as a different and unusual teacher because he does not follow the traditional teaching styles. Mr.

Keating forces him to create a poem on the spot in front of the class, although he is well-aware of Todd’s resistance to speak in front of others, after he write a poem on his own as requested. Mr. Keating questions Todd and installs him with a sense of confidence in his own abilities, “Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? Isn't that your worst fear? Well, I think you're wrong. I think you have something inside of you that is worth a great deal”. Mr. Keating teaches Todd to think freely for himself and that these thoughts and opinions he has are valued. In the end, Todd becomes self-reliant, confident in himself and his ideas and beliefs. He does not conform to society and distinguishes himself amongst the rest, maintaining his own voice, and he overcomes his previous shy and isolated self, becoming a leader, when introduced to these ideas of individualism and

Todd Anderson, the shy new kid to the school, is a prime example of how Emerson’s view that someone can be great without fitting in with society by showing that he is a great poet, standing on the desk in defiance to Mr. Nolan, and beginning to live his own life and not being intimidated by the pressures of filling his brother’s shoes. In the beginning of the movie, Todd is shy and does not like speaking in front of a crowd. The rest of the group, however, does not mind sharing their opinions and views with the rest of the class. Todd is misunderstood in this way. Once Mr. Keating, the boys’ teacher who believes in thinking for oneself, makes him go in front of the class and create a poem on the spot, he ends up being a great poet. He is a quick thinker and quickly creates a poem that Mr. Keating loves. Another way that Todd Anderson reflects Emerson’s views is when he defies Mr. Nolan and stands on the desk as a way to remonstrate Mr. Nolan’s views on education. This act shows that he is misunderstood by the school officials because of Mr. Nolan’s reaction to it. Mr. Nolan does not approve of Todd’s defiance of his power and gets mad. Todd continues to stand on the desk to stand up for what he believes in. Following his example, one by one the other boys avidly

The Classroom shows all the issues in the school system which is caused by a leader that doesn’t know how to lead, effecting the teachers and students negatively. The fish roots from the head, the principle was constantly worrying about less important things, for example, making the students stand when he enters the room or during a meeting discussing the behavior of students he interrupts saying he wanted to discuss something more important, the coffee machine. He is supposed to be running a school and all he is worried about is coffee and the “respect” he receives when entering a room.

Mr. Keating was able to free the student’s mind by giving them a chance to think. In each class the students were to peruse everything from the content. Keating’s teaching method was not the “banking” method, it consisted of the “problem-posing.” Gaining knowledge from a book is not the same as gaining knowledge from another person. There is a scene where Mr. Keating takes the students to a corridor, he tells them, “Seize the day boys, make your lives

Mr. Keating, the outgoing, encouraging English teacher profoundly represents Thoreau's ideas of individuality by his words and actions, both in and outside of the classroom. Mr. Keating first shows an example of transcendentalism ideas during class, when he encourages his students to tear out the pages of the introduction. Mr. Keating believes the boys need to learn to analyze the poetry for themselves, and not listen to someone else's interpretation. He tells his students “Now in my class you will learn to think for yourselves again.” ( Dead Poets Society: Final Script). Mr. Keating wants his students to look beyond what a book says, and he wants the boys to interpret things they way they want to. Mr. Keating represents transcendentalist ideas again in the courtyard scene. He is emphasizing the dangers

Professor John Keating was a new teacher in the school who had unorthodox methods of teaching his class. Originally, he was supposed to teach a very serious class with no fun and games, the only focus is learning and that is it. Mr. Keating was also a rebellion of this strain theory. With his unorthodox methods of teaching his class, he stressed the idea of carpe diem. This concept affects all of his students and they were to “seize the day” by setting themselves free of the order their society had imposed on them. Mr. Keating was a big influencer in Neil’s decision to pursue acting. The pressures to succeed placed on Neil by his parents and society prevent him from exploring his own individuality. He felt as if he were enclosed in a box with nowhere to go. Neil’s father had warned him that if he did not stop acting he would have

As he began his first lecture, it started off like any other lecture a teacher would. He had a student read aloud from the section they were going to be learning about. The section treated poetry as a science graphing the quality of a poem, he had them tare this section out saying it is not what poetry is. He would not just copy what the book said, he taught them in non-conventional ways. As we can gather also from the scene where they are in the courtyard and he has them all walk individually showing that you do not have to conform and all march the same. From this, Mr. Keating is rewarded by thinking outside of the box by teaching the younger generation that they do not have to conform to what adults say, just because they are adults. For this he is also punished, the blame of Neil’s tragic death is pushed onto Mr.Keating and not the adults

“Look, when you graduate, that’s it. Right? Your dad can’t tell you what to do anymore, and you can go do whatever you want. You can be an actor or go to college.” Todd glances down at his stockinged feet then back up at Neil. A voice whispers to him, be brave Todd, for once in your life, be brave. “I’ll be right there for you, I promise.” His stomach twists in knots once he says that though he doesn’t regret it. Todd looks anywhere but

Equally important, is the fact that every single teacher conforms and follows this code. That is until Mr. Keating shows up. Throughout the movie, the teachings of Mr. Keating provide a fire for his students to embrace individualism with his favorite saying, Carpe Diem. On top of this, Mr. Keating represents individualism himself as he disregards the school’s methodology to embrace his students and have fun while teaching. This essence of individualism is best illustrated with one of the first scenes with Mr. Keating where he goes over the introduction to a poetry textbook. After one of his students reads the introduction which includes a mundane explanation on how to rate poetry, Mr. Keating explains how you cannot rely on this explanation as the power of poetry comes from the person who is reading it. Subsequently, he has all of his students rip out this introduction which further embraces the individualism and free thinking that Emerson explained in his speech. This act by Mr. Keating was in direct violation of the school’s curriculum for poetry, but he still did it due to the fact that he thought otherwise. Ultimately, Mr. Keating embodies transcendentalism as he embraces individualism through his actions that go against the establishment in order to further his students understanding of individualism.

When Mr. Keating became their new English teacher, he taught them a new way to think. One of the very first things he tells them is to “find their own voice… and consider what they think above all.” He encourages them to trust and express themselves. This lead the boys to become

Todd, a new student at Welton Academy is painfully shy and anxious to speak up. Being constantly told he needs to live up to his older brother’s reputation leaves him constantly tormented. The amount of pressure that Todd’s parents have on him lead to intense shyness, to the point he can scarcely converse with others. “Mr Anderson thinks everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing.” Mr Keating looks down on Todd as a result of a high angle shot, making Todd look idle and powerless, telling

Many poets and directors believe in the concept of living life to the fullest. In this quote, by Sir Henry David Thoreau, he shows that we should live life to its fullest and make sure we make our mark while we still can, so people remember us. In the Movie," Dead Poets Society," a group of students from the Welton Prep School are moved by the teachings of their English teacher, Professor Keating. He teaches the boys to be their own boss, leaders and not followers. This quote relates to the movie because this quote tells what Keating wants to teach his kids. Many events take place during the movie that asks whether or not Professor Keating's teaching are appropriate, it is also questionable whether or not he