Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Can society fully control individuals?

Although society sets a myriad of rules and regulations that ostensibly circumscribes your actions, it is our choice whether or not to adapt to these rules. Convincing examples to demonstrates this founds ar found in A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen, To wipe out a Mockingbird by Harper leeward and Galileos choices of defying norms in the field of science.Noras decision to leave Torvald and seek her independence in the play A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen explicitly demonstrates that, no matter of what society dictates, choices are always present ot the individual. Nora was one of many women who suffered from the male supremacy during the Victorian Era. Her husband, Torvald, would call her demeaning names such as squirrel and favorite and expects her to obey every command because society dictates that she should. However, Nora defied her social norms and left Torvald to achieve her independence an act considered to be unthinkable at the time. Thus demonstrates that decisions are cont ingent upon(p) upon individuals, not society.Another example which shows that our choices area solely determined by ourselves is that of Atticus and his decision to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus, who lives in a town inhabited by a racist, white community, decided to do what he thinks is skillful and defended a black man named Tom Robinson, who was spurious accused of raping a white girl. Despite Atticuss cognizance of the vicious calumny that he will be subjected to by society, he nevertheless made the decision which he considered is right and defended Tom Robinson. This further shows that decision are purely found on the individual.In addition, the fact that decisions of the individual can never be fully controlled by society is shown in the field of science, particularly through Galileos choice of having a heliocentric view on the universe. Galileo was a scientist who, after adequate research into the field, maintained that, co ntrary to what the church and Aristotle believed, the sun is in the eye of the universe. At the time, society strongly believed that the earth is the center of the universe and considered every other scientist who said otherwise to be mocking religion and thus be punishment. Because of his theory, Galileo was convicted of heresy and consequently sentence to home imprisonment. Surely, it was Galileos decision to voice his theory which, rather interestingly, happened to be correct all alongThe aforementioned examples are just three a vast number of community who decided to go against society wishes. If anything, these people exemplify the human nature of exploring the unknown, of thinking deprecative outside the box and of seeking dreams regardless of the perils and obstacles on the way, these are the people who make progress possible without such individuals, society would be a accruement of robots that operate based on norms and that would never be able to think, speak or act ou t anything that does not fit this norm. Quite simply, it is these people that liberated the oppressed and illuminated the path of knowledge.

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