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Relaxing Pressure Even though we experience pressures every day and don’t realize it there are times where that pressure can get overwhelming, but pressure can also have a positive effect on a person. It can help a person grow, like the pressure that is put on students, or it can push someone out of their comfort zone so they try something new and exciting. There are times though that people have been pushed so far out of their comfort zone that they get so overwhelmed that they believe the only relief is death. In the film The Dead Poets Society, Peter Weir explores the many types of pressure that is put on a student. This essay will explore the positive effects that Todd’s friend, Neil, has on him; it will also review the effects Mr. Keating had on pushing Todd out of his comfort zone, and how this is beneficial to Todd. The last thing would be to analyze the pressure that Todd puts on himself, and how this is good. Through the characterization of Todd, Weir shows that the pressure peers and mentors create, to conform to a way that is different than the norm, is not always negative. Neil is an extraordinary friend to Todd throughout the film. Neil put a lot of pressure on Todd to get him to step out of his comfort zone, but in the end most of this is positive. Todd is able to control the pressure that is put on him and learn from it. An example of pressure that is put on Todd is Neil forcing Todd to go to the first “Dead Poets Society” meeting. This pressure is positive, because it is Todd’s first step out of his boundary, and it plants the idea that he can live outside of the walls he creates for himself. Neil also tells Todd to trough his desk set off the roof. This is positive, because Todd is able to relieve some of the pressure that is put on him from his parents; he is able to move past the issue that he got the same set last year for his birthday. Neil is one of the reasons that Todd realizes that he has a voice in the society, which is known as