死亡诗社人物性格分析

John Keating—O Captain!My Captain!

The image of Keating:

Unconventional , imaginative, passionate, amiable(和蔼可亲的，亲切的), knowledgeable, idealistic(理想主义的)

Motivation :.

He wanted the boys to be free thinkers, which the school thought was misguiding the students.

Analysis :

Mr.Keating is a quite special teacher in Welton. He uses his own way to teach, and challenges the tradition way of teaching in Welton.（eg：in the movie, he required the boys to rip out the entire introduction of their textbooks）

He enlightens students’ gift, driving students to listen the voice of death so as to inspire them to seize the day in the first class.

Telling them to find their own steps to trust their own beliefs are unique and encouraging them to stand on the desk to constantly look at things in different ways.

All in all, he does his best to encourage everyone to love life and realise what their hearts are. He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.

However, the reality is cruel. He wanted to teach the boys to be freethinkers, this is his motivation but the school thought he was misguiding the students. Because of the conflicts of the different ideas about teaching between Mr.Keating and Welton, the school forced Mr.Keating to be the scapegoat for Neil’s death and quit his teaching in Welton.

The ideal was beated by the reality, and the captain was expeled. Although Mr.Keating was fired by the school in the end, what he taught to the students has been remembered by those young boys forever. Once in the English class, Mr.Keating said”In my class you will learn to think for yourselves again.” and I think if he asked the boys whether they have met his requirement, the answer must be”Yes, my captain!”

Knox Overstreet—The Love Runner

deep in the throes of first love, tries to get the girl of his dreams

Knox might be the one who gets most benefits from the word ”seize the day”

The word ”seize the day” gives him courage to pursue his love, a beautiful girl named Chris.

Pity is that we do not know the ending of Knox and Chris.

Maybe point is not their ending, but the fact that if Knox had ever tried his best to pursue his love. So, just go ahead! Brave love runner!

Richard Cameron——the Disgusting Rat

The image of Richard:

Traditional conformist（英国国教徒，同流者）selfish …

After Mr.Keating’s first class,he only concerned about if Mr.Keating will test them about those stuff.

When Neil organized the death poet’s society, he was the scarest one.

At last, he betrayed others to save himself when questioned by the principle about the dead poets society.

In a word, Cameron is a selfishness, fusty and realistic person. But in the eyes of the school leaders, he is likely to be a “good” student.Mabe he is the image of ordinary at that time.