In Through the Out Door: A Rebellion Against Societal Expectations
As a teenager it seems an expectation that I venture through a phase of discontent and insubordination of my way to adulthood. It is anticipated that I will become a nuisance to my parents and other authority figures, predicted that I will develop an arrogant attitude and presumed that I will focus all of my built up aggression and other hormonally imbalanced emotions on spontaneous, destructive acts of rebellion, self-proclaimed to be “stickin’ it to the man”. In fact, it is so thoroughly understood as an integral part of growing up that the example usage when googling the definition of the word “rebellion” is “an act of teenage rebellion.” and Jeanie Lerche Davis, a freelance medical journalist, once wrote “All teens go through [it]...testing authority” (). Of course, it would be easy to rest the blame of this cultural phenomenon on the shoulders of the most recent generations, namely, millennials. As proven by statements like “we would never dare speak to our parents the way kids do today”, many believe this stage to be relatively new. It, however, is not. In fact, Socrates, a man who lived from 469 to 399 B.C., mind you, once wrote “The children now love luxury; they have bad …show more content…
In Act five, Scene three, for a small example of this behaviour, Juliet refuses to go with Friar Lawrence as she says, “Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.” () Both Socrates and Shakespeare’s commentary, from a period long before millennials or any recent generation, prove that teenage rebellion has been a long-known occurrence. One could even go as far to say that it is simply an innate quality of human existence; we just naturally like to break rules. Thus, with seemingly no way around it and growing rebellious stirrings, I took to observation as I set forth into my own
As a teenager it seems an expectation that I venture through a phase of discontent and insubordination of my way to adulthood. It is anticipated that I will become a nuisance to my parents and other authority figures, predicted that I will develop an arrogant attitude and presumed that I will focus all of my built up aggression and other hormonally imbalanced emotions on spontaneous, destructive acts of rebellion, self-proclaimed to be “stickin’ it to the man”. In fact, it is so thoroughly understood as an integral part of growing up that the example usage when googling the definition of the word “rebellion” is “an act of teenage rebellion.” and Jeanie Lerche Davis, a freelance medical journalist, once wrote “All teens go through [it]...testing authority” (). Of course, it would be easy to rest the blame of this cultural phenomenon on the shoulders of the most recent generations, namely, millennials. As proven by statements like “we would never dare speak to our parents the way kids do today”, many believe this stage to be relatively new. It, however, is not. In fact, Socrates, a man who lived from 469 to 399 B.C., mind you, once wrote “The children now love luxury; they have bad …show more content…
In Act five, Scene three, for a small example of this behaviour, Juliet refuses to go with Friar Lawrence as she says, “Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.” () Both Socrates and Shakespeare’s commentary, from a period long before millennials or any recent generation, prove that teenage rebellion has been a long-known occurrence. One could even go as far to say that it is simply an innate quality of human existence; we just naturally like to break rules. Thus, with seemingly no way around it and growing rebellious stirrings, I took to observation as I set forth into my own