Conformity And Carpe Diem Shapes Our Individual Identity
Carpe diem
Conformity and carpe diem are two polar opposites; they don't mean anything close to the same thing. Conformity is the norm of society. Carpe diem means seize the day which could be interpreted as a reason or excuse to have bad behaviour. This is not what it means. The struggle in between these also shapes our individual identity. Our identity is shaped through education, family and friends.
As students go throughout school they have immensely large amounts of pressure put on them by family. Whether it is put on us by parents or by siblings, one’s siblings pressure is indirect through how they have succeeded. Kids or teenagers feel they have to out do there older or younger siblings and sometimes they end up getting forgot or get less help from parents because they are focussed on the older child. This idea was played out in the movie Dead Poets Society through the character todd. With his older brother being the valed victorian and the “schooler’’ this somewhat already formed his identity before he was even known. There parents put or even force them do do things because it's what they want them too do not what the kid wants we also seen this in the movie Dead Poets Society with …show more content…
You do still have to be able to make your own path in the world not be forced by someone to do something you don't want too, it is hard to break away from this if you have lived it your whole life that is where the term carpe diem comes in. This term is latin for seize the day or make it your own, don't let simple opportunities pass you by. This connects back to our parents as they do wants us to have a good life and have the opportunities that they did not have. They can go a little too far with how they treat the situation or they don't ask what you would like to do. A students education is important but its not worth wrecking a relationship with
Conformity and carpe diem are two polar opposites; they don't mean anything close to the same thing. Conformity is the norm of society. Carpe diem means seize the day which could be interpreted as a reason or excuse to have bad behaviour. This is not what it means. The struggle in between these also shapes our individual identity. Our identity is shaped through education, family and friends.
As students go throughout school they have immensely large amounts of pressure put on them by family. Whether it is put on us by parents or by siblings, one’s siblings pressure is indirect through how they have succeeded. Kids or teenagers feel they have to out do there older or younger siblings and sometimes they end up getting forgot or get less help from parents because they are focussed on the older child. This idea was played out in the movie Dead Poets Society through the character todd. With his older brother being the valed victorian and the “schooler’’ this somewhat already formed his identity before he was even known. There parents put or even force them do do things because it's what they want them too do not what the kid wants we also seen this in the movie Dead Poets Society with …show more content…
You do still have to be able to make your own path in the world not be forced by someone to do something you don't want too, it is hard to break away from this if you have lived it your whole life that is where the term carpe diem comes in. This term is latin for seize the day or make it your own, don't let simple opportunities pass you by. This connects back to our parents as they do wants us to have a good life and have the opportunities that they did not have. They can go a little too far with how they treat the situation or they don't ask what you would like to do. A students education is important but its not worth wrecking a relationship with