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Conformity Or Rebellion, By Margaret Drabble

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Conformity or Rebellion Reputation over character, the truth of the world today, or is it? In 2001 The American Scholar published an excerpt from author Margaret Drabble that read, “Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.” In truth, it is human nature to want to belong and no one can deny the struggle of being an outsider however, I disagree with Drabble’s quote. Ignoring logic and morals to go along with the today’s status quo is a reality among many people. For a modern teenager, this is a hard truth that can be depicted toward any of them; it is quite normal for teens to be peer pressured into situations they do not want to be in, but the reality of conformity makes them quiet to any kind of controversy …show more content…

The true expression of peoples rebellion is written in our history books; the story of Rosa Parks is an example of true defiance from the reality of conformity that we all feel. She helped initiate one of the most famous rebellions against inequality in America, by not obeying the law and giving up her seat for a white man she sparked a nationwide need for rebellion and the refuse of inequality for black Americans. This example of not respecting an unequal law in America proves that it always our desire to conform when knowing it would be more socially acceptable to keep quiet and fit in. When looking back in history the need for rebellion is shown in many different groups of oppressed people, not only black people. The Woman Suffrage Movement is taught to all of us in school and gives us examples of real women that did not conform to the unequal rules that men placed upon them. The need and want these women possessed is nothing short of the same kind of need of belonging that Maslow stated in his Hierarchy of Needs; the Suffragettes wanted the right to vote and to be equal to their male counterparts, their need for change made them outsiders in a world where women did nothing but stay confined to the home. These women did not believe in the conformity that applied to women in their time period and people today look upon those women to find courage to do the same and not conform to society's

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