How conformity affects people prompt: At the start of the novel, Tally believes that the pretty operation was "the only way to make people equal" (45). In your opinion, is conformity a positive or negative influence on society? Provide real-world examples (current or historical) to support your opinion. In this thought-provoking quote by John F. Kennedy, he says, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” This is a theme that can be seen quite a bit in The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Tally, who is the main character in this book, thinks that being pretty is the best thing that could happen. This is because of how she was raised and the way her society thinks. To some people, conformity isn’t a big deal. But it can be, because …show more content…
Burger says, ” We often change our attitudes and behaviors to match the attitudes and behaviors of the people around us.” The article says that the people you hang out with can change you. If they act in a certain way, you might conform to them and act like them. In the uglies by Westerfeld it says, “pretties do look different. They look like they are themselves. It’s just more subtle, because they’re not all freaks ( page 82 ).” Tally thought this her whole life. She thought that the only way to get attention was to be pretty. That’s just because of her society and the behaviors of them. So if you conform to them, some people may judge you for the way you act. If and when you conform to other people, it might be bad because they may not act right. So, due to that, people might perceive you differently. In this article called “How do people perceive me?” It says, “Knowing how you come across other people puts you in control, and this in turn will make you look and feel more confident.” So this is telling me that if you know how you act or come across to people, then people will see you differently. But if you don’t act right, then people may see you as a not-so-good person. Also, when you conform
The Uglies is a book about a futuristic look of America. There are a lot of futuristic things like hover boards. But this society isn’t perfect like people think. The narrator in this book is tally Youngblood who will be on a journey to find her best friend. In this society everyone is obsessed with beauty. And the Uglies are the people between the ages of 12 and 16 they live in a remote community far from the beautiful people. In this community the Uglies anxiously wait for their 16th birthday. At the age of 16 they go through a mandatory plastic surgery in order to live up to society’s standards. After they go through plastic surgery they will be known as pretties, and they will also live with all of the other gorgeous people. After changing communities they will party all the time and spend most of their time drinking champagne. But then Tally find out that the government is hiding a scary secret about becoming a pretty and she will risk her life and her friends to save them from becoming pretties.
President John F. Kennedy once said, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.". Conforming to societal customs can lead to “pluralistic ignorance” which is defined as being unsure and doubtful of majority behavior. This diagnoses causes people to conform to things that are not actually in existence and undermines creativity and productiveness. Hans Christian Andersen’s “Emperors New Clothes” is the impeccable illustration of the consequences and compliancy of conformity. No one in the story wanted to admit that they could not see the cloth and were unfit for their position, therefore everyone only admitted to seeing the incredible cloth. Conformity is divided between internal and external. Internal is the honest changing how one believes and acts and external is when one only behaves in a different way but does not change what they believe. External conformity is the most detrimental to the individual due to the constant combat between self-morals and actions. Conformity not only is destructive to an individual but also is harmful to others. Studies have proven that conforming can cause people to become passive bystanders to ethical wrongs like bullying and breaking of the law. With overwhelming and constant refutation, the negatives of conformity tend to suppress the
What forms Our Identity is individualization, no one is a carbon-copy of one another and there are many things that makes each person unique whether that be their ethnic background, personality, religious beliefs which can range from Non-religious, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Etc; In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld the book is set three hundred years into the future, with the government giving surgical operations which provides every citizen with the “Pretty” operation which makes everyone meet the standard of societal beauty.
There are much more important ideas about your life and how or what you do. One of the key is do not be involved with a bad situation. Do not judge people of how they look. There could be people who looks dirty but is not mean and others that wears nice clothes but is rude like an example from sentence 3. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, people judge the greasers being mean because of how they look but are not that mean and the Socs of how people believe they are amazing people because of how they look but get into trouble. Nothing will change if you want to change it or not and that is one of the most important theme because people wants to make the difference.
In human society, there are only a select few that choose to avoid conformity which makes them an individual in being that they can control their minds and make decisions up for themselves. A famous sociologist, Solomon Asch, conducted the Asch experiment which was a line experiment to see if people would change their answers just to fit in with the group of people around them. Astonishingly, the results proved that over 75 percent of people conform to society to fit in. Conformity in society takes away individuality in turn making humanity fade away. “Beautiful Monsters”, written by Eric Puchner, talks about a dystopian world where kids rule the world who don’t age but still look like children. The Perennials (children) are genetically born
...David. “He still had the look in his eye, the pretty look. Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else.” (279) By developing this relationship with David, it not only made Tally extremely happy; but she is able to understand the true meaning of what it is to be beautiful.
The most basic concept in social psychology is conformity. Conformity is the idea that behaviour or a belief is changed in order to follow, or conform, to what is considered the “norm.” One of the oldest experiments to support this notion was conducted in 1935 by Muzafer Sherif (Song, Ma, Wu, Li, 2012 p. 1366). There are two different types of
We tend to change our perceptions of ourselves to conform to the social norms. Even the “prettiest” girls experience self-esteem issues. In Mean Girls, Cady befriends a group of materialistic, judgmental girls who are called “The Plastics.” “The Plastics” are meant to drive for perfection. They are obsessed with their self-image, especially, the group’s leader, Regina George who always says, “I have to lose three pounds” (Mean Girls). Their body image gives the girls power, the skinnier and hotter they are, the more they can judge others who are not like them. Radical Feminist Theory criticizes the notion of beauty image. There is no one type of beauty, but this movie shows that one body size, one skin color, and one type of fashion, is beautiful. For example, all of “The Plastics” are skinny, lighter skin/white, and have long, straight hair. When Cady goes to Regina’s house with “The Plastics”, she finds out that even the prettiest girls find things wrong with their bodies. The girls are obviously beautiful, but while standing in front of a mirror, they criticize their bodies. Regina thinks her pores are huge, Gretchen thinks she has a weird hairline, and Karen thinks her nail beds suck. Sheltered Cady says, “I thought there was only fat and skinny, but apparently there are a lot of things that can be wrong with your body” (Mean Girls). Teenagers, usually, focus on the tiniest things to try to make themselves
Conformity also restricts the ideas of society to be heard, because everyone must follow the same ideology. One of the quotes from Beatty is “You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred”, implying that people are better off conforming to the culture so that unhappiness does not happen (Bradbury 56). In Fahrenheit 451 conformity is the motto of the culture, society is distracted with certain simple things like TV and racing cars. Clarisse explains to Montag “People don’t talk about anything. they all say the same thing and nobody says anything different from anyone else”, the culture of this society couldn’t question certain things and most of their conversations lead to the same basic ideas.
...ther, and nearly kills an innocent woman. In a broader perspective, conformity can leave people walking aimlessly down the beaten path with no real direction except conformity, doomed to live yet another meaningless life in a society based on archaic principles.
This leads to the first example of human duality which is the good and bad side to conforming to societal ...
“Social conformity has been practiced in societies around the world since ancient times,” and the reason it is so effective is that humans have an inherent need to be accepted as part of a group (Sadat). Furthermore, Hossna Sadat reports that:
Conformity can often seem like the best path to take in a situation. Going along with everyone else will cause less conflict for the group as a whole. Unfortunately conforming simply to protect other people's feelings can lead to powerful internal conflicts if a person does not fully agree with the situation. Ruth from A Raisin in the Sun, Langston from "Salvation," and Mama from "Everyday Use," all felt internal conflicts resulting from conformity.
In a seemingly perfect world in which everyone is sculpted to perfection what could go wrong? Well, this dystopian society has a dark secret. Almost everyone over sixteen years old is a mindless shell with bland personality and a fragile body. This is because at the age sixteen, everyone is required to have an operation to make all of their “ugly” traits disappear—but in exchange they unknowingly sacrifice their personality. Moreover, those who can’t have the operation generally don’t go out in public since in the words of Tally, “Uglies may look goofy, but at least they are young.
The inability to conform in society can lead to unhappiness and the feeling of inequality