1. The character who went through the most change in this film was Todd. At the beginning, he was not even willing to read aloud, but by the end he was standing on top of his desk proclaiming, "O captain! My Captain!"
2. The girls who Charlie brings to the Dead Poets Society are very static. The viewers have no clue about any of their life details. There is no indication that going to the Dead Poets' meeting changed their lives in any way.
3. Mr. Keating is a round character. Through the film he becomes attached to the boys and he gets involved with their minds. By the end of the film, he is changed. At the end he no longer shares the enthusiasm he once had about the headmaster and other administrators at his old school.
4. Todd Anderson was terrified of speaking publicly. Slowly, many things made him become more and more brave. Mr. Keating took him to the front of the class room at one point and spun him around and covered his eyes and through all of the chaos, he began to defeat his fear. By the end, he was still afraid, but he definitely overcame his fear. Neil Perry was scared of his father. Once he finally decided to be his own person, he overcame that fear and went and performed in a play without his father's knowledge. However, his dad found out and tried to put him in military school, this resulted in Neil killing himself. In a way he escaped the fear, but at the same time, the fear seemed to have defeated him. Knox Overstreet was scared of talking to a girl that he liked who had a boyfriend. He overcame this fear by forcing himself to talk to her. He got the courage from the lessons that Mr. Keating gave him. Charlie's greatest fear was conformity. He wanted to fight it anyway he could. He defeated this fear by doing things that most people would be too scared to do like bringing girls to the Dead Poets meeting.