Theme (Live life)

The theme of the movie Dead Poets Society would be to live life. Neil was afraid of doing what he loved, acting, because of his father. Instead of living how he wanted and doing what he wanted, he took the easy way out and killed himself. Mr. Keating was the one who tried to encourage this, especially living life seeing others opinions and views. Todd was also another person who ended up living life. At first, he was the one who was very shy and did not want to participate in any of the events, even in the reading in the Dead Poets Society. He eventually started to living life and doing his potential after Mr. Keating taught him to do so. He even stood up for him after he was leaving because of getting fired. In the end, Neil's death started to affect everyone, showing them that life is too short and you never know what is going to happen. Especially that you need to do what you love because otherwise you will end up not fully living life. Knox was the one that who spent his time trying to chase this girl, who he ended up getting. He eventually started to overcome his fear which was not being with the girl, and started taking chances. All of them eventually start to learn from Mr. Keating along with the suicide of Neil.