Dealing with increased feelings of independence and rebellion

Throughout the movie, The Dead Poets Society, there are several themes that they try to show for the audience. The theme that I am choosing to do is the one dealing with increased feelings of independence and rebellion. I chose to do my blog over this theme because it is the one that I feel was portrayed the most in the movie. They first start to demonstrate these feelings after all of their parents left on the day they enrolled (that's at least what I think it was). Then again, that particular group of students were like that since day one. The boys really started to get feelings of independence and rebellion when Mr. Keating came. Mr. Keating inspired them to "seize the day" and basically live life to the fullest. When this message got through to their heads, they began to do just that. Neil, who was afraid of his father and was pretty much forced to live this life that he in no way wanted any part of, started to stray away from his father and become an independent young man who made his own decisions. Mr. Keating made them realize that they are all young independent individuals which kind of lead them into being a little rebellious. The rebellion is shown when they decided to form the Dead Poets Society again. They knew that they weren't supposed to do half of the stuff that they did, but they did it anyways. I believe that all they were trying to do throughout the whole movie was, "seize the day."