Non Conformity In Dead Poet's Society

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Lam, Austin
Eng. 2P/P.2
Mr. T it’s everywhere. Conformity is a second sense to us;An unknown presence of obligation to stay within the lines. Non-conformity is making your own outlines. It’s debatable whether one is better than the other but personally, I believe in Non-conformity.

Conformity is hiding yourself. In the article “sociology of Leopard Man” , Feys expresses his feelings that” ordinary people fear what they don’t understand”. Conformists hide themselves because they are afraid of being different, afraid of taking a chance. But like Feys says, it’s because they don’t understand. In “Dead Poets Society” , Mr. Keating, a teacher, shows his students that there are many views of the world, and that theirs is just one of them. Later,

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