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The plot takes place in the Welton Academy, a very strict private school with high education. The pupils are taught by the four mottos: tradition, discipline, honor and excellence.....´till Mr.Keating, an english teacher, who himself graduated from the school a number of years earlier. He is liberal, modern and has new ideas and teaching methods. He tries to show the students the life of another point of view. The pupils accept his methods and are passionately interested in those things, especially in the way Mr.Keating shows them poetry. Inspired of this they found a club called the "Dead Poets Society". There they read out poems and write poetry themselves. The main protagonists are surely Mr. Keating, the teacher