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Conformity is a part of human nature; however, people have a misconception that conformity is bad when in fact conformity is a trait that evolved with humanity from the beginning. In literary books especially, conformity is viewed as giving up ones individuality. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth fights against conforming to the social the norms in England and fights conforming every step of the way. However, conformity should not be seen as a negative force that steals one’s individuality and replaces personality with a monotonous voice, matching cloths, and matching blank facial expressions mimicking the world of George Orwell’s 1984, conformity should be seen as a human instinct to survive because that is exactly what it is. Conformity should be viewed as something that produces a individual in society who fits in. In Kafka’s Metamorphosis, while Gregor conforms to the role of the son who is a provider for his whole family, Gregor is happy in his role as provider and is content with his life. While American society stresses the individual, in reality, society condemns the individuals who actually do stand out in the crowd. Society must learn to accept that individualism are conformity are not actually at war but are synonymous in their relationship; in order to hold true to oneself in society and to be an individual, one must first understand societies rules and where the boundaries of conformity lie before someone is able to break out and become his/her own individual being.

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Conformity is a part of human nature; however, people have a misconception that conformity is bad when in fact conformity is a trait that evolved with humanity from the beginning. In literary books especially, conformity is viewed as giving up ones individuality. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth fights against conforming to the social norms of England and fights every step of the way. However, conformity should not be seen as a negative force that steals one’s individuality and replaces it with a monotone voice and matching cloths and expressions with the rest of the world, conformity should be seen as a human instinct to survive because that is exactly what it is.

Blog 45 Confromity

Conformity is something that will never go away unless people are unified into a single being because conformity is a way for groups of people to feel as if they have a place with others in society. Conformity is always growing but it is never changing. The way in which people conform changes everyday but why people conform is has always been in order to fit in and be accepted in society.

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Questions to ask my grandmother:

What was life like before moving to America?

When you first moved here, were there pressures to assimilate? What cultural differences did you lose/keep?

Was it difficult to move to a new country?

What kinds of pressure did you feel? From your parents? From other kids?

Do you feel like there was a difference between the pressure your parents felt and you? What about between you and my mom? Did you put different pressures on her then you received at her age?

Questions For My Grandma: Blog 43

My grandmother does not remember a lot from her past. The few times I have spoken to her about her childhood she can only remember bits a pieces; however, talking to her about peer pressure will be very interesting because she grew up in England till around age 10. After WWII her parents moved with her to New York. Even though my grandmother had a heavy British accent, because the kids at her school in New York made fun of her, she got rid of it.

Conformity Blog 42

Conformity is a necessity in society. Without conformity there would be no way for society to interact with each other in the way that they do because conformity allows people to judge the trustworthiness and other important aspects of a person before making deals and getting ripped off. For example, conformity in eating habits allows someone who is on a date to see if he is compatible with his date by watching his/her eating habits and her general behavior. Conforming to society can show whether the person has manners or is a slob. Conformity is also necessary when it comes to large groups of people interacting and living under law together because if everyone thought differently there would be no law and order.  

Under Pressure: Blog 41

Pressure seems to be one of those things in life that ever seem to go away. When were young pressure comes from our parents and school, when were older, pressure comes from trying to find a partner, work, economy. The idea that pressure never goes away though seems to be because pressure is like a pipe, parents take there pressure and stress out on there children, who in turn learn that pressure is acceptable and normally to portray on others, which leads to those children putting pressure on their kids when they grow up and the cycle keeps going.

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Kids responding after the teacher told them the first part of an idiom.

Freud’s greater argument however is that the ID actually controls how humans interact even though people themselves are not continence of there thoughts and actions. The ID makes decisions for people; however, since one cannot understand his/her ID people interoperate the ID’s decisions as his/her own conscience decision when in reality his/her brain has already made the decision and the conscious mind is the last to receive the message. Freud would describe Kurtz as someone who has let down all his filters and reverted back to the primitive: “men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but that a powerful measure of desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment” (Freud 63). Through Kurtz, Conrad exemplifies Freud’s point, even though Conrad would not have known that this was Freud’s writings, because with absolutely no boundaries, Kurtz adapts to the African continent by going savage. Freud would argue that Kurtz’s killing sprees and savage nature towards the natives of Africa or his “neighbors” is simply his instinct and his ID controlling Kurtz because Kurtz lets down his boundaries and lets his unconscious mind take over his conscious.