Romanticism and Transcendentalism in Dead Poets Society

The ideas behind romanticism and transcendentalism are those that state everyone is their own person. Transcendentalists believe that human emotion and freedom plays a very important role in ones life. Dead Poets Society makes examples of many of these beliefs and they affect many of the characters by changing the way they think about things and the way they view the world. Mr. Keating, the boys’ English teacher, opens the world of transcendentalism to the …

…in Latin. Knox meets a girl named Chris and is determined to get her to like him. So he is invited to a party she’s at and kisses her while she’s sleeping on the couch. Her boyfriend sees this and beats the living daylights out of Knox. The good that comes from the teaching is that he learns to thinks for himself and not let anyone else makes him conform to their ideas.