Conformity plays a big role in society and many people are influenced by its power whether for good or bad. Dead Poets Society is a film produced in 1989 by director Peter Weir and the main notion of the film is conformity. The film is basically about a high grade school called Welton Academy where the students are simply told to conform so that the school system may operate correctly and that they get the best results from each student. However, the school is too strict and their firm rules cause some students to rebel against their stringent environment and by joining the Dead Poets Society where they find freedom and refuge. Throughout the article we will further discuss the dangers posed by conformity and there will be many links to conformity found in Dead Poets Society to establish that conformity is extremely dangerous.
Firstly, what is conformity? Conformity is a form of social influence where one may change their beliefs or …show more content…
Conformity, however; prevents creativity, imagination and ones freedom of thought and when all of these things are taken away then people feel a need to rebel. Therefore, by introducing conformity then people try harder to rebel because they want to be unique and individual. This can be seen in Dead Poets Society when the boys begin to rebel against the schools pressure to conform. One specific example from the film is when Neil was given a leading role in a play but his father didn't allow him to participate in this play. His father then decides to take him out of Welton Academy so that he may attend military school and rather then Neil obeying his fathers rules he kills himself because he refuses to conform. The stress that Neil received from the schools strict policies and his strict father not allowing him to do what he enjoys eventually pushed him to go against conformity in an effort to be himself, this then resulted in his
Firstly, what is conformity? Conformity is a form of social influence where one may change their beliefs or …show more content…
Conformity, however; prevents creativity, imagination and ones freedom of thought and when all of these things are taken away then people feel a need to rebel. Therefore, by introducing conformity then people try harder to rebel because they want to be unique and individual. This can be seen in Dead Poets Society when the boys begin to rebel against the schools pressure to conform. One specific example from the film is when Neil was given a leading role in a play but his father didn't allow him to participate in this play. His father then decides to take him out of Welton Academy so that he may attend military school and rather then Neil obeying his fathers rules he kills himself because he refuses to conform. The stress that Neil received from the schools strict policies and his strict father not allowing him to do what he enjoys eventually pushed him to go against conformity in an effort to be himself, this then resulted in his