Conforming To Society's Standard Of Perfection

We live each day conforming to society’s standard of perfection or is it the other way around? Since birth we are taught to follow your dreams and whatever you need to achieve happiness and succeed personally in life. We are then startled by the unruly realization of reality in this black and white world. You cannot simply just be yourself, society will not allow it. You are encouraged to follow who you are,but in reason because society already has a set plan and idea on how the universe should work and/or act. You see two key characteristics of being human is that humans have the right of choice and also the need to please or in other words conform. Conform to what? Conform to whatever the society at the time feels in natural and must be. In the real imperfect world these two things do not always live in harmony. In most cases one has to give in order to satisfy the other. This is made apparent in the novel,”Pride and Prejudice,’ written by Jane Austen. In this novel we see two characters, Darcy and Elizabeth, give up a part of themselves in order to please society’s version of how life should be, and their own personal goal to happiness. Both characters were forced to compromise and figure out how to get past …show more content…
Ultimately Elizabeth and Darcy broke the social norm and still got married despite social class, despite family issues, despite society’s conflict with this idea. They compromised themselves to make sure they were most compatible before marriage. Although we did see Darcy in the beginning sticking strictly to how society expected him to be, and dismissing his love for Elizabeth solely because he knew it would be an outrage to society and his family. He was stricken with the need to conform, but ultimately made the compromise which best benefited