The Lords Of Discipline By Pat Conroy

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The story "The Lords of Discipline" takes place in a military school in South Carolina. In the story, the hazing rituals of the plebe year play an important role. In the book "The Lords of Discipline," the author, Pat Conroy, through depicting the impact of hazing, shows how The Institute's masculinity forces men to be brave, resilient, and reach the expectations of masculinity. In this essay, we will be mainly talking about how the plebe year hazing ritual changes the cadets' thinking of masculinity and their expectations of masculinity. Through constant physical and verbal abuse throughout the year, the institute's system creates strong and brave men. The purpose of the institute is to train a person to be a full man. By full man, it means that the person is brave, endurable, disciplined, respectable, and does not show weakness in any situation, which reaches the expectations of masculinity in The Institute. …show more content…

In the plebe year, the cadets have to face countless verbal and physical torture from the cadets. The purpose of the Plebe Year is to train the future seniors in the military school to be the way they want and reach the expectations of masculinity, which means being a full man. Here are some examples of the people that the Institute wants in the future. They want people who endure the pain and abuse that the cadres provide without any signs of weakness, for example, to cry, faint, complain, and more. Some examples of those kinds of people are John Alexander and Colonel Reynolds. During the Plebe year, John Alexander endured all the pain the upper class gave him. He's endurable; he can endure the pain and the verbal and physical abuse that the cadres give him. He is the kind of person that the Institute

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