Conformity In Mark Twain's Ferdinand The Bull

Have you ever felt pressured into looking or being something society tells you to be ? Well Ferdinand sure has, throughout his entire life this bull was told to be stronger, to be bolder yet he stayed strong in what he wanted to be. He was the odd ball out, out of all of his siblings, he refused to do bull-like things for he didn’t feel like himself. Throughout the story “Ferdinand the Bull” the author conveys the theme of conformity through the character of Ferdinand.
In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Ferdinand, he's in the pasture smelling the flowers, he shows conformity in the beginning because although he's a bull he doesn't feel like doing what is expected from a bull. His siblings loved to play around and butt heads, his mother wanted him to spend time with his siblings but Ferdinand wanted to be on his own. The story tells us "His mother, who was a cow, asked him if he wanted to play and butt heads like the other little bulls but Ferdinand said no, he preferred to just sit quietly and smell the …show more content…
This fight was an event that was being celebrated all over Madrid, it was advertised that the strongest bull in Spain was fighting, when in reality it was just Ferdinand. So, when Ferdinand comes out in the ring, people were in for a completely different show. The author explains that "No one could get Ferdinand to fight. The banderilleros tried, the picadores tried, the matador tried but no one could get Ferdinand to fight. The matador was so upset that he started crying. He would not be able to show the people how brave and strong he was." (paragraph 12, sentences 1-3) Ferdinand's actions, yet again prove that just because he was a bull does not mean he has to do what every other bull does. In the ring, where most bull's get craziest, Ferdinand was as calm as the flowers he smells on a daily basis, he didn’t fight because he didn’t want