In the movie, "Dead Poets Society" directed by Peter Weir, many of the boys in the school are faced with a life of quiet desperation until Mr. Keating is hired to become their new English teacher. Mr. Keating is an allusion to Henry David Thoreau and uses similar teaching ideology as well as identical lessons. Charlie Dalton, a.k.a. Nuwanda, is the most important character to the plot of the movie because he decides on many important decisions and his decisions make drastic changes for the near future. Many of the boys but mainly focusing on Charlie Dalton, believe that we should live a "Carpe Diem" life over a "Live life of quiet desperation." He lives a monotonous life with his life planned out already before Mr. Keating is hired to become