Conformity Vs Nonconformity

This world is full of opposing forces. Good and bad, followers and leaders, rebels and tyrants. When it comes down to it all these forces are recurring instances of conformity and nonconformity. Conformity is excellently portrayed by Benjamin the donkey from George Orwell's animal farm, and contrarily nonconformity is excellently displayed in Ruby Bridges’s revolutionary role as the first african american girl to attend a formerly all white elementary school. Conformity involves subservience while nonconformity involves rebellion and and pushing boundaries. Both conformity and nonconformity can cause positive and negative repercussions. What we’ll see is that nonconformity usually produces positive repercussion and vice versa.

Benjamin is a conformist on Animal Farm. Benjaman is smart animal just as intelligent as the pig hierarchy. “Benjamin could read as well as well as any pig, but never exercised

She refused to conform by deciding to exercise her new right to receive equal education, by attending formerly segregated schools. The 1960’s was time of segregation, the civil rights movement was prevalent as people struggle to obtain the basic rights of man. The year Bridges was born ,1954, was the same year the Supreme Court passed the decision to desegregate schools. This was nonconformity on Bridges part because even though it was legal now for children of color to attend formerly all white schools, the admittance test was very difficult, and many racist southerners lined up at the schools front doors to yell horrible things at Bridges every day. It took great courage for her to do something as reasonable as get her education. This is a quote from Bridges that describes her mindset as she became that symbol, that beacon of hope and strength:“Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is