The main themes for The dead poets society is individual vs. Conformity. Students at Welton Academy are based upon to be conformists. Influential leaders in the school all promote mindless and follow tradition without individualism through the course of the movie. Mr. Keating boosts the students to keep digging within themselves to be who they want to be and not like the other around them. Mr. Keating repeatedly does this to his students. These students that were based within his class room was on the verge to either conform or just rebel against others opinions about themselves. Mr. Nolan proclaims to other admin and tells or threaten Mr. Keating about his unorthodox ways of teaching. Yet, Mr. Keating rebels against Mr. Nolan as well and continues to teach the boys his unorthodox ways of poetry.