?I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.. I did not wish to live what was not life... nor did I whish to practice resignation... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.?
             Henry David Thoreau used this as an explanation for his leaving civilization and going to live in the depths of the forest all by himself. As a well-known transcendentalist writer, his views of life, the human mind, body, and soul are greatly respected by all of the idealist and transcendentalist thinkers of our time, and the time past. Mr. Keating, the primary character in the film, Dead Poet's Society?, was a firm believer in the teaching of transcendentalisms. In the filmDead Poet Society?, this idealistic professor enters the highly recognize private school, Chilton. Being an idealistic professor and entering a school in whichDiscipline, Excellence, Tradition, and Perseverance? were the schools motto was not a very logical decision. Nevertheless, Mr. Keating was an English teacher with a goal; this goal was to open a new world to these students at Chilton. He wanted them to be independent, to be able to think for themselves, and not to conform into society's beliefs.
             It is the first day of school and Mr. Keating takes his class to a hallway, which they have passed countless of times. There he asks them to do something that they have never done before, that is to look into the faces of the students who had come before them. The class stood there peering into each hopeful face of those students who had already graduated. In their stern faces they could see that these students once had the same dreams, hopes, and desires that they had. They also realized that most of these students never accomplished what they had set out to do, because they were to busy fulfilling everybody else's dreams to be able to live their lives for themselves. As they looked into these faces and came to this realization Mr. Keating...