Bryanna Ominika
Ms. McCulligh
ENG3U
May 29 2013
Conformity for Government Rules or A Fight to Conform Freedom
"I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We used criticism as a fake participation" -Chuck Palahniuk, Choke. This quote is referring to how rebellions can hide out to look like they belong to society the government has created, but when they are all trying to fit in, their hearts aren't completely in that state of conforming to the government's rules. In dystopian texts rebellions either conform to those rules by giving up their basic rights and freedom or they conform to fight for their rights.
In the song 1984 by David Bowie it shows how rebellions will go along with anything that they're ordered to do because they don't have any other choice but to conform to the government's rules. Throughout the song it emphasizes on the government taking control of rebellions mental ability to think independently because it's a crime, "They'll split you're pretty cranium, and fill it full of air." because of the lack of thinking, "You'll be shooting up on anything" expresses how rebellions will do anything to fit in with the rest of society. By the end of the song it sums up the rebellion conforming to the government's rules, "I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side."
The speaker in "Duality's Rule" interprets the dual between freedom vs. rules. The poem follows the speaker's dream of a utopia by using a fragment such as "No discrimination or irritating ignorance / No confrontation or blinded arrogance." which expresses their way of freedom but, "Now there are some rules which you must adhere." holds the speaker back to conforming their freedom.
In the song Hooked in the Mouth by Megadeth shows that people get fooled by society but a rebellion then accepts the challenge to fight for their basic right of freedom. The song starts out as a man changing history and rewriting something new, "Replacing rights and wrongs and files and records in schools." Then a the rebellion takes the action by fighting for their freedom and rights by empowering the leader. "I believe my kingdom will come." shows the rebellion having faith in something greater. In the end of the song it concludes "I'm not a fish / I'm a man." The rebellion fought to prove he will not be fooled with like the rest of society.
No matter what kind of situation rebellions are in, they will always conform to something. As in the poems/songs expressed the way rebellions think before they act up to conforming, it always starts with what they would want before they give up that possibility of their way of 'Utopia'.
In the song 1984 by David Bowie it shows how rebellions will go along with anything that they're ordered to do because they don't have any other choice but to conform to the government's rules. Throughout the song it emphasizes on the government taking control of rebellions mental ability to think independently because it's a crime, "They'll split you're pretty cranium, and fill it full of air." because of the lack of thinking, "You'll be shooting up on anything" expresses how rebellions will do anything to fit in with the rest of society. By the end of the song it sums up the rebellion conforming to the government's rules, "I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side."
The speaker in "Duality's Rule" interprets the dual between freedom vs. rules. The poem follows the speaker's dream of a utopia by using a fragment such as "No discrimination or irritating ignorance / No confrontation or blinded arrogance." which expresses their way of freedom but, "Now there are some rules which you must adhere." holds the speaker back to conforming their freedom.
In the song Hooked in the Mouth by Megadeth shows that people get fooled by society but a rebellion then accepts the challenge to fight for their basic right of freedom. The song starts out as a man changing history and rewriting something new, "Replacing rights and wrongs and files and records in schools." Then a the rebellion takes the action by fighting for their freedom and rights by empowering the leader. "I believe my kingdom will come." shows the rebellion having faith in something greater. In the end of the song it concludes "I'm not a fish / I'm a man." The rebellion fought to prove he will not be fooled with like the rest of society.
No matter what kind of situation rebellions are in, they will always conform to something. As in the poems/songs expressed the way rebellions think before they act up to conforming, it always starts with what they would want before they give up that possibility of their way of 'Utopia'.