Unfortunately, humans do not and will never know all there is to know. Some questions will remain unanswered; however, the questions are still important. While intelligence tends to present itself as knowledge, it should instead be associated with imagination or curiosity. One important topic Charlotte Perkins Gilman addresses in her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the tendency for society to hold those in authority to the highest prestige; experts may seem entirely knowledgeable in their area of expertise while not having the entire picture. It is better to question even the most accredited individual or established subject matter due to information possibly being absent or misunderstood. The woman in the story clearly understands that more than a slight depression is wrong …show more content…
During his search, he found that in questioning authenticity and reality, you can find that truth can be deceiving. He follows and questions the most educated men and with his “Socratic Method,” and discovers that with these carefully crafted questions one could, “achieve a deep, clear, rationally founded understanding of the most significant areas of human experience: knowledge, justice, morality,” etc. (Chaffee 62). In his search for the most educated man, he found that the most educated were, in fact, not as informed as they seemed and he found many contradictions in their arguments just by picking it apart with his questions. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher delve into the essence of conformity in, “Contesting the ‘Nature’ Of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies Really Show.” What they find is that humans to tend to conform and “they do so out of belief not by nature, out of choice not by necessity” (Haslam 3). What this means is that, people will choose to conform because they believe what they’re doing is good or