Conformity is a person’s belief or behavior that is influenced by their environment. Rebellion is the act of refusing to listen or follow authority. There are several costs and benefits of conformity and rebellion. The assigned readings points out many of these examples. However living a life as a conformist, rather than a rebellion would be a good decision and a safe one.
If one is a conformist should they continue living that way or change to be a rebel? The cost of conformity would be in questioned if one’s environment is a positive or negative one. This would reflect on whether or not one should go along with the flow or rebel against it. When one chooses to be a rebel in life they are taking a risk. Many people do not think about the consequences as the result of some of their life decisions.
Referring to the story “The lottery” (Jackson). The people of the village would be considered as the conformists due to their beliefs. The villager’s ritual of having a lottery once a year was influenced by their ancestors. If one decided to disobey or rebel against the ritual they would be put through much embarrassment. Tessie had her own beliefs and was not afraid to stand up for herself. It appears that whoever had the piece of paper with the black dot would get stoned by the other villagers.
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Tessie tried to prevent that for happening to her husband. Tessie shouted, “You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!”(p.343). Although Tessie showed courage to save her husband. Her rebellious acts still lead her to being stoned anyways.
The next example, of showing the cost and benefits of conformity and rebellion is expressed in the story “Two Kinds” (Tan). The Mother of Jing-mei...
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... persuade her husband to change his mind. Unfortunately her persuasions were unsuccessful. Mr Helmer’s respect for law was expressed through this quote he shared with Nora. After she made an attempt to help Krogstad her husband asks her was “He forged someone’s name. Have you any idea what that means?” (p.460). Little to his knowledge he was aware that his wife Nora had committed the same crime.
Nora showed a sense of being rebellious to authority. Loans were not to be taking out by women. So she decided to forge her father’s name on a loan. Her motive was to save her husband’s life. In a life and death situation a person has to do what they have to in order to survive. Nora took the initiative to save her family from the heartache and pain of death. However in the end she still ends up losing her family with the decisions she made. This was to walk out on them.
The most popular age to do so are teenagers as one can depict. If all people conformed to one another, individuality would never be heard of. An opposite way to think of this is that without conformity, the common society would not be able to work together. People tend to believe this due to the fact that without agreement, there is chaos. No one would have courage to stand up for what they believe in, what they like, and most importantly, who they are. One will usually believe that after conforming to fit others for a while, one may begin to lose themselves. All in all, conforming may seem to be the only option to people in order not drag attention to themselves in certain situations. In these situation types, you must find courage within yourself to have the ability to not overlook what you believe
It is very common to see conformity among young people, especially when large groups of young people are constantly around each other. School is one example where conformity is rampant. For some reason people tend to gravitate towards what others are doing. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go, the characters are no different from any other young person in that they tend to conform. Ishiguro shows this conformity to prove that conformity stems from the want to fit in and pure ignorance. At Hailsham, the students conform just to fit in with the rest of the students, but they also conform because they do not know any better.
Conformity and rebellion are two characteristics that cannot exist without each other. If no one were to conform then there would be no set standard for anyone to rebel against. Without rebellion conformity would not be challenged. Madness comes into play when describing those that rebel against the norm. Dickinson describes anyone with a rebellious attitude as “demur you’re straightway dangerous and handled with a chain” society treats people like this because the idea of change can scare a lot of people. Many of these themes are seen throughout literature.
Mrs. Hutchinson said grinning, “Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink now, would you, Joe?” (Henry, 375). After everyone picks their piece of paper, the Hutchinson’s find out that they’re the family that has the piece of paper with the black spot on it. They then put their paper back in the box to draw again and whichever member of the family has the black spot on it is the one who is then stoned to death. Tessie is the one who has the black spot on it.
The definition of conformity is the compliance with social standards and laws in a particular culture, environment, society and time. If this occurs the individual changes their attitudes, beliefs or actions to align more holistically with those in the surrounding groups and environment, as a result of real or perceived group pressure. This is ultimately a direct result of the power which a group has over the individual. There are two types of conformity, normative conformity, and informational conformity. The motivation behind normative conformity is the desire to be liked and accepted in society. This is most widely known as peer pressure. For example, a student begins smoking because their peers
Conformity explains how one responds to an expectation because you are adjusting your behavior or thinking to compare with a overall group standard, with the fear of being the odd one out. Lastly there is obedience which is where you change your judgements or opinions due to an authority figure telling you to do so, in respect of being out of line and in a need to follow rules and expectations of authority due to
Once her husband, Helmer, found out that Nora obtained a loan, he was furious with her and worried about his honor and his appearance to society. “In all these years. You who were my pride and joy, a hypocrite! A liar!... Now you’ve ruined my happiness. You’ve thrown away my whole future… I’m going under because of you, woman.” (Ibsen, 93). Helmer did not want to be seen as someone who needed help and was unable to support himself and his family. This behavior displays the fact that men were supposed to be powerful and independent.
Nora is the pampered wife of an aspiring bank manager Torvald Halmer. In a desperate attempt to saves her husband's life Nora once asked for a loan so she and her family could move somewhere where her husband could recover from his sickness. Giving the circumstances she, as a woman of that period, by herself and behind her husband forged her dad signature to receive the loan. Now, Nora's lender (Mr. Krogstad), despite her paying punctually, uses that fault as a fraud to pressure her so she could help him to keep his job in the Bank where her husband is going to be the manager. Nora finds out that Torvald would fire Mr. Krogstad at any cost. At learning this, Nora trembles for she knows Mr. Krogstad will tell everything to Torvald. She remains confident; however that Torvald will stand by her no matter what outcome. His reaction though is not what she expected and therefore here is when she realizes that she "must stand quite alone" and leaves her husband.
Nora lives in a dream world, a child fantasy, where everything is perfect, and everything makes sense. She thinks that the world would never condemn a woman who tries to save her husband's life or protect a dying father. When confronted by Krogstad, who tells her it is against the law to sign someone else's signature, she responds: " This I refuse to believe. A daughter hasn't a right to protect her dying father from anxiety and care? A wife hasn't a right to save her husband's life? I don't know much about laws, but I'm sure that somewhere in the books these things are allowed." Nora simply does not understand the ways of the world, and the final realization that she is in real danger of risking hers and her husband's reputation, and worse, makes her snap out of the childish dream she had been living.
She committed forgery, by signing in place of her deceased father, which of course is taken as leverage by Krogstad, the owner of the note she signed, in order for him to conserve his job. The last day she seems hopeless and willing to assume the consequences, she has a final opportunity at getting away with it by finding out Mrs Linde and Krogstad have unsolved romantic affairs and that he is deeply in love with her. This new development convinces Krogstad to be with Mrs Linde, but unfortunately the previous letter telling everything about the debt and forgery was already in Helmer’s mail. When the night comes for Helmer to read his mail, he finds out about the note and Nora’s mistakes, he is quick to think of a way to come up clean, while at the same time dishonoring Nora for her actions.
In every society, there is conformity and nonconformity, although we may not notice it. Conformity is when someone is doing the same thing as others because they do not want to be the only one doing differently. Example, if there was a whole class raising their hands would you want to be the only one with your hand down, no so you would raise it with the rest of the class to not look like you don't know anything. This is called social pressures it when a large group is doing something and you're the only one not then you want to be doing whatever that large group is doing.
The fundamental part about conformity and ideology are presented within sociology. Ideology has made people believe in something that would be accepted by all, yet, not all of the people accepted the same ideology. There are multiple ideologies that people follow and that can form groups which leads to a formation of a belief. For example, if two people are embracing a same ideology, but in a different form, then the conformity between these two individuals would be normative. This idea from Shpnacer’s conformity has made some evidence that people conform on their beliefs in ideology, so whatever kind of ideology people believed in, the results are the
Nora takes great measures to save Torvald’s life causing her to secretly take immoral actions that changes her future sense. Nora had no choice but to seek a loan behind her husband’s back in o...
Katherine: So what is conformity? The Psychological Sciences textbook defines it as “the altering of one’s behaviors and opinions to match those of other people or to match other people’s expectations” (Gazzaniga, 2012).
Colin Wilson once said, "The Average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." A conformist is a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices. That means someone who follows others, whether it is about decision making or their attitude. In today 's society I would say that most of the people are conformist, this includes both teenagers and adults. Being a conformist in my opinion can be bad and good for various reasons. If the attitude of the specific person has changed for the better, such as a snobby boy/girl becoming more respectful, that it definitely a positive change. Other people can change their attitude for