In the movie “Dead Poets Society,” one of the first things Mr. Keating teaches his students is “Carpe Diem,” which means “seize the day.” He also teaches them to look at life through a different perspective and that they don’t need to conform to be successful. The boys who go to this private school have been told what to do their whole lives by their strict parents, with their careers decided for them and everything. During the movie, we see these boys start to be more adventurous by being themselves and not conforming to what is normal. I think that seizing the day is an important life lesson because you never know what is going to happen to you, so you should be adventurous and live your life to the fullest. The main boys in the movie all use Mr. Keating’s advice, and seize the day in …show more content…
He realizes that he would rather be an actor than a doctor, and he forges his dad’s signature on the permission slip for the play because he thinks his father won’t find out. He goes on with the play, which is Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and his dad catches him. This makes is father so angry that he takes Neil out of the private school and threatens to put him in military school. Neil can’t handle the pressure his dad and future put on him, so he kills himself. Because Mr. Keating taught these boys to think for themselves, the school blames him for Neil’s death and fires him. Knox seizes the day by going after a girl he likes, which is hard for him since he goes to an all-boys school. He joins the Dead Poets Society so he can learn poetry to impress Christine, who he met at a dinner party with his parents’ friends. He actually ends up embarrassing her when he shows up to her school with flowers and recites a poem. He also kissed her at a party in front of her boyfriend, who punches Knox in the face for it. Christine confronts Knox about embarrassing her at school, but she ends up being his date to Neil’s play, so it looks like his approaches