Essays on Nonconformist

The necessities of individuals who go against the values of powerful societies tend to generate contention and scepticism on both sides. This notion is encapsulated through a plethora of literary and film techniques in Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and Andrew Niccol’s...

Throughout this essay, the article by R. J. Helmstadter, “The Nonconformist Conscience” shall be discussed. Nonconformist conscience explains the fifty-year stronghold of 1830 to 1880. This event resulted in Free Churchmen being unable to evolve. Helmstadter’s argument portrays three categories of the nonconformist conscience, these...

Nonconformity is discussed in both Antigone by Sophocles and Dr.Martin Luther King’s sermon Transformed Nonconformist. In the play Antigone, Antigone wants to break Creon’s law to bury Polyneices. She says that it is not a crime because it is God’s proclamation. In “Transformed Nonconformist,” Martin...

Much of the way in which we behave is determined by social norms. Everywhere we go, we have the constant pressure from society to act and behave a certain way, which I believe is useful in the sense of keeping society in order and preventing...