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The Dead Poets Society is the classic work written by Nancy H. Kleinbaum as a novel. In the stories of 7 high school students in an overly disciplined boarding school, the responsibility of being overloaded by the school and the families, and the distances between their families and their choice to live and do what they want, The story also tells about the obstacles that students face and how to deal with them. John Keating, who is new to the Welton Academy, opens up new visions in front of him and tries to increase his awareness about entering the world of poetry, evaluating the day, and being able to "join in with his own lines" as the Walt Whitman said. The main idea in the book is undoubtedly living the
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Principal Nolan explains the main principles of the Welton Academy to students and parents. These are discipline, tradition, competence and honor. Assuming the Welton Academy is a group; We can say these are the norms of the group. The meeting is over and the students are taken to their rooms. While chatting among themselves, Neil's father comes in and tells him to withdraw from the annual commission and focus only on his lessons. Neil against that, but he still has to accept it because of his father's oppressive attitude. This attitude of his father is an example of Utilitarianism. While he is trying to consolidate his son's academic career, he takes his happiness and wishes back into the plan. All lessons in the school are memorized and the same traditional methods are used. That's why the students are are quite surprised when they enter Mr. Keating's class. Mr. Keating meets students in a different way than traditional way He teaches them that they should give up writing by tearing books, to live the moment by providing their walk as they want and to look at them from a different angle by taking them to the teacher's desk. Keating is an example of creativity in the book. They work to educate students as intelligent, independent, risk-taking, self-confident individuals. Also Mr. Keating sheds light on Neil to revive the Dead Poets Society. In this revitalized organization, the students for the first time went out of their borders and began to read poetry in the cave. Neil, who brought all the people together and played the association. This is a sign of his leadership spirit. The loyalty of these 7 learners has been greatly increased and liberated to the group. Now they have decided what they want. Neil wants to be a actor, Knox want to Chris, Todd want to say everything freely on his mind, Charlie want to breaks all the chains ... We call it Goal-Setting Theory in Organizational Behavior. As the

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