After a long day skiing and a hearty dinner, I sit on the leather sofa in the living room, reclining in my chair while I warm up with the heat of the fire next to me. As I listen to the chatter between all my extended family, we decide to end the night with a movie. My aunt goes upstairs to retrieve a movie from the DVD closet, she searches through the wooden shelves filled with every movie imaginable. She refuses to tell us the film, as she slides the disc into the DVD player. What eight-year-old wouldn’t be excited to watch a movie that they know nothing about? As we all watch the movie trailers before the film begins, the tension in the room rises. The suspense peaks as we all wait for the big reveal. As the words ‘Ella Enchanted’ flash …show more content…
It all boils down to the one word, a word that controls all of society: conformity. What I was subconsciously realizing was that Anne Hathaway wasn’t portraying a character in a film, she was acting as a female version of myself. She did everything she was told, without thinking about it. “How ridiculous?” I thought, “Who does everything that they are told to do?” After the movie, the parents told us to go to bed, to get ready for the big day that we had ahead of us. This was how they got all fifteen boisterous children to bed. I lay in the top bunk of the bunk bed, under three warm blankets and completely tucked in, staring at the brush strokes on the ceiling. I think about the movie, reflecting on what I just saw, while the chatter of my cousins on other bunks about the film is background noise. They discussed the small and large parts of the film, everything from the way Benny dressed to the performance of the song at the end of the film. But these things didn’t concern me, as I was about to discover something much larger. The thought finally occurs to me, as it was drifting aimlessly like a lost child in a department store, “I know someone who does everything that they’re told: it’s …show more content…
For the past 18 years, I have focused on doing everything adults tell me to, I can’t resist the temptation to obey their commands. As I get older, I see the value in conformity, and how it holds our society together. Without it, everything would break into chaos. Simply abiding by social constructs has had an incredibly profound impact on my life, even abiding by those which I may not whole-heartedly agree with has benefited me. After all, these choices are so common and accepted because they will likely lead to happiness and success, not because they are known for having a negative impact on the lives of those who choose these paths. The social constructs that I abide by aren’t specifically part of any category, in fact they generally fall into many different categories. The best choices in my life were the easiest, because I never had to make a decision, I simply tagged along. Many experiences in my life have reinforced the notion of the power that conformity gives people. But doing what everybody else does may not be beneficial to you based upon the society you live in and the standards it
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
Beloved is a movie full of pain, love, and triumph. This film is constructed and created from the works of Toni Morrison’s novel. Beloved can be considered a ghost tale based on how the main character Beloved magically appears and disappears with no warning signs. The movie takes place in the summer of 1865 in Ohio at 124 Bluestone Road in a little white house on a plate of land.
As we grow up we are told to be individuals, but once we grow up we obey authority figures and change our beliefs to fit in with others. No matter what age we are we will always comply to a behavior or belief to fit in with a group different than ours or to be liked. We do not like to be judged or looked at as an outsider; this will remain the same in which ever situation we find ourselves in. Whether it be in a professional setting such as work or a social setting with friends. When thinking of conformity and obedience we mostly think of cults and prisons but it is not always the case.
In conclusion conformity is a double edge sword because the outcome can always be different in so many situation. Conforming is not a bad thing but Nonconform isn't neither they are choices that's made when laws and rules are
Have you ever been happy trying to fit in? Whenever you try to fit in, you're always trying to make yourself happy by fitting in but they're actually not being themselves so they usually feel uncomfortable and unhappy mostly all the time. When I see the video of social experiments of conformity and it only takes about 4 people to conform somebody to do the wrong thing. There’s a few people that do not fall for it; usually the people who do not fall for conformity they are non conformist. If we didn’t have nonconformist this world would be all the same nobody would create anything because nobody would think out the box. Sometimes I see people as a flock of birds that all go one way. I believe people should not care about being judged because
Over the course of the last century, a young orphan by the name of Annie has been plastered amongst a media-driven world. Crawling into the minds and hearts of many, the iconic tale of Annie and her exposure to the world of the social elite has made way for a magnitude of adaptations. Deriving from a 1885 poem, Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley, Annie and her adventures has been illustrated as comic strips (Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray), books (Annie by Thomas Meehan), and musicals (Annie and Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge by Thomas Meehan) (“Little Orphant Annie”)(Cronin)(“Annie {Musical} Plot & Characters”). The latest takes on an Annie adaptation has been met with the big screens. Within the last thirty years, directors John Huston and Will Gluck have released two different versions of the life and journey of a young girl (“Annie” {1982})(“Annie” {2014}) .
Throughout my life I learned to adapt and conform to behaviors that were different form my family’s upbringing. My family initially viewed conformity as a negative thing, but were able to eventually learn to embrace parts of the American culture and have conformed to some aspects of today’s society. The desire to be
I have decided on Tangled for my movie. Rapunzel made a very hard decision to follow her heart and go with Flynn Rider the thief and on the run, or to stay in the tower with her mother and never follower her dreams. She decided to go with him and follow her dreams. I think this is the best decision she could have made but it was a very difficult decision to make because her mother keep telling her no and how bad the people in this world are. She followed her dreams made new friends and found out her true story. Which would make it all worth it in the end.
The 1950’s Cinderella created by world-renown Disney director, Clyde Geronimi, has been established as the most renown and generic story out of all. In comparison to Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella”, the standard storyline, both have the same concepts. Similarities such as the abuse, the magic, and the happily ever after is present in both exactly. Although, there are also horrifying aspects to discuss about Cinderella and their other versions. Certain acts such as the abuse and mutilation are considered to be unjust and not right, no matter the situation; but perhaps Cinderella was not as virtuous and kind as portrayed in the 1950’s film.
In conclusion, we as a society have to realize that individuality goes much deeper than material things and that it is okay to be different. Conforming to what society feels you should do will not only be detrimental to our growth as humans but as a world community as well.
Elliot Aronson (2012) provides a definition of conformity, two social psychological processes that underlie a conformity and cited examples of reasons why people conform in the book, The Social Animal. Aronson (2012) defines a conformity as “a change in a person’s behavior or opinion as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group of people” (p.19). In accordance with Aronson’s (2012) definition of conformity, people do conform owing to the social influence, which are two main social psychological processes: belonging and getting information.
By the late 1900s, approximately five billion human beings occupied planet Earth. Whether they crawled on top of comfortable carpets or scurried across dark alleys, five billion people carried the ability to not only walk on the earth, but also to shape it, to mold it with their footsteps. Among this era's sculptors that molded the ground below them with their various talents was Walt Disney, a man who grew up to become a film producer, a screenwriter, a director, an animator, an entrepreneur, an international icon and a philanthropist. With his imagination, ambition, and a little help from a special mouse, Disney transformed both the entertainment industry and international culture itself. He pioneered full-color animated cartoons, created "the happiest place on Earth", and introduced the world to inspiring family movies that to this day encourage both children and adults alike to pursue their dreams and chase happiness. However, while Disney's movies all end with a "happily ever after", the actual tales the movies are based on are far from happy; they are rather morbid, realistic and poignant. The Little Mermaid, Disney's movie about a young princess lusting after a prince, serves as an example of a story in which Disney strayed far from the actual tale. The basis of Disney's feel-good, family movie is Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, which shocks readers with the death of the mermaid's beloved prince, the mermaid's awareness of her physical pain, and the loss of her innocence. Analyzed through a psychoanalytical lens, both Walt Disney's and Hans Christian Andersen's A Little Mermaid displays female subjectivity in favor of a dominant patriarchal world.
The classic tale of Cinderella is well known for the fight of overcoming great obstacles despite great odds. However, there are always a few ill-hearted people who go out of their way to cease any competition that they might face, as seen with Cinderella’s step-sisters. Samuel Jackson says is his distinguished quote, “The hunger of imagination…lures us to…the phantoms of hope,” to help develop a more defined view of a fairytale. The story of Cinderella fully embodies the ideals of a true fairytale by encompassing magic, hope, and struggle between good and evil throughout the duration of the plot.
Conformity involves the changing of one’s attitudes, opinions, or behaviours to match those of the ‘norms’. The “norms”, established by society, are what we should or ought to be thinking, feeling, or doing if we wish to be accepted into a group. This desire to be accepted and belong to a group is an undeniable human need.
Is it because of society that we act the way we do? Following whatever the majority perceives as right or the 'cool' thing to do. Literature has brought me to the belief that humans are very adaptable as we tend to adapt to not only our surroundings but also to what others around us think. We adapt for th...