The Archetype Of Conformity In Society

Each day, people make decisions that are influenced by what is considered normal in society. Whether it’s the clothes they wear, the activities do, the things they say, or the way they act, everybody participates in conformity on some level. The archetype of conformity is represented all throughout the short film, Destino, and the Broadway play, Sunday in the Park with George, by showing how one can stay true to themselves despite social norms, how one is forced to conform to social norms within society, and the struggle of attempting to remain true to oneself despite conformity around them. Is it always in one’s best interest to conform to these social norms? Conformity is a concept that is prevalent in society and hard to overcome, but the girl in the dress

The once stone man and the girl in the dress from Destino, meet face to face after being divided with the sand and the walls, she goes into the pose from the bell, and of being a dancer. The man sees this, and becomes a baseball player, because the social norm for a man is to play a sport, specifically baseball; this shows the idea of gender roles, and how society says a man and a woman must be. Gender roles, represented in Destino by the male baseball player and the female dancer, are also represented in Sunday in the Park with George by the roles that are taken on by the males. The play portrays most of the men as artists, a French stereotype. There is one man who is not a painter and does not have much if any involvement in art, and that is the baker, another form of a French stereotype. The baker, even though he is the least partially conforming to the norm, is looked down upon by many of the art critics, and Dot seems to prefer a painter. Both of these examples show society judging people and working people towards conformity while each person attempts to stay true to their own