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    When watching the movie Dead Poets Society, one can analyze it and see different concepts of teaching. The school is known for its old traditions and high standards, but a new English professor by the name of John Keating uses an unorthodox method of teaching. The movie takes place in 1958 at an all-boys preparatory school where most of the students are put under much pressure from their parents to exceed academically. As the movie progresses, it shows clips from different classrooms that show how

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    Throughout the movie, Dead Poets Society, multiple leadership roles were portrayed. Demonstrating leadership includes having assertiveness, initiative, and having the right moral. Moreover, it involves the ability to motivate or guide people towards a specific goal. In Dead Poets Society, Neil Perry shows leadership by bringing back the “Dead Poets Society and having confidence to do what he sets his mind to do. In order to be a leader, one must be able to follow what they believe in. For example

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    In a fight for freedom of expression, authority is challenged, and true purpose is found. Dead Poets Society highlights the need for individualism to truly find what matters most to a person. Transcendentalism is heavily reliant on ignoring the herd mentality. This film is filled with transcendentalist ideas, using rebellious characters and courageous acts to show the importance of nonconformity, rejecting societal expectations, and the influence poetry holds. The characters in this film emphasize

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    enjoyment of the public. Writers, too, have been able present this through the syntax of thier poems. 'Dead Poets Society' is one of these movies that has been made to present thoughts and worldly themes. In the 'Dead Poets Society', the theme of 'society has influence on how one should be' is also present in the poem "Mirror". In the movie 'Dead Poets Society', this theme of how society dictates one by how the students lives are dictated. Although many aspire to be more, or different, than

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    The genre of Comedy is headlined by a hero who is not of a high rank like a tragedy, but instead is centered around the relatable, real-life human who is far from perfect. In Dead Poets Society, the comic hero is Welton’s new English teacher, Mr. John Keating. Keating’s goal is to teach his students the importance of poetry through the emphasis on self-expression and embracing the Latin saying, Carpe Diem, which means “seize the day.” As Keating fights against the school’s curriculum and standards

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    film Dead Poets Society is an American coming-of-age drama film that was released in 1989. The movie was set in an all-boys boarding school back in the 1950s. In the movie, the teacher, Mr. Keating, shows the group of boys the joys and love of poetry. The boys then created a secret society to come together to read and discuss poetry, calling it the Dead Poets Society. This movie challenges the social norms of society and honors the idea of living life to the fullest. Throughout the Dead Poets Society

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    understood.” Relationship and Friendship development plays a key role in the character development in the movie Dead Poets Society. Relationship development plays a key role in the movie with the relationship between the boys and Mr. Keating, and the strengthening of that relationship, and in my own life with the development of a relationship with my friend Emma. In Dead Poets Society relationships develop and dissolve several times throughout the film. “You must strive to find your own voice because

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    install into their students. This all boys school is stuck in their ways all with short hair, dressed in suits with ties, and without fail rule followers. The Welton teaches conformity routinely, with little to no parental involvement. The film Dead Poets Society cleverly illustrates the need for healthy relationships with parents and other mentors. Without those the consequences could be detrimental. Through Todd Anderson with his very nonexistent relationship with his parents, Neil Perry’s relationship

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    Henry Thoreau, writer of Walden, is just a glimpse in the possibility of what we can do with our lives. In the Dead Poets Society, many of the students exert certain traits of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is the progressive ideology that divinity fuses into nature and humanity, and that to progress we need this moral divinity inside ourselves and to find that purity. Dead Poets Society demonstrates Nonconformity, Spark of Divinity, and Respect for Nature, which all are traits of transcendentalism

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    Society has always moved forward by people who push boundaries and reject the norm. Transcendentalism was a movement that started in the 1830s and led up to the 1840s, which promoted ideas of self-exploration, non-conformity, personal identity, and carpe diem. Authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about these ideas in poem essays. One of Emerson’s most famous transcendentalist poem is “Self-Reliance” in which he writes about how “imitation is suicide” (Emerson 292) and how people should carve their

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