Leadership Knows, Goes, and Shows the Way: Analysis of Dead Poet’s Society Leadership as a whole plays a huge role in Dead Poet’s Society. Every character in the movie demonstrates leadership at one point or another. It is important to understand what leadership is, however, to fully understand how. Leadership is not merely leading a group of people in a presentation, or setting a good example for a younger sibling. It is relentlessly pursuing passions and striving for goals that seem unattainable. It is taking risks in order to do or be what you want, even if it ends with failure, because failure in itself is a lesson. To be a leader, one must be able to accept failure as well as success, and he or she must not stop striving for what they