Non Conformist

As the world is seen as alienating, unfriendly and an ugly environment to the minority, those who find themselves as an outsider find that they are non-conformists, one who does not conform to, or refuses to be bound by, accepted beliefs, customs, or practices. Those who do conform to this way of life are the outcasts; they feel alienated and displaced as they reject the dominant paradigm.

To be a conformist a person who uncritically or habitually conforms to the customs, rules, or styles of a group is to be part of an accepted code. To be a non-conformist in a changing society is to be given a cold shoulder and thought to have no moral decency. Within these characteristics, the non-conformist hide their identities behind a concealing mask. …show more content…
Transforming the conventional ideas, he develops the qualities of both non-conformists and conformists into a more complicated, diverse picture. Presenting this non-conformist voice of rhythm, he establishes both non-conforming and conforming characters. Eliot shows the contradictory argument of both qualities with their conflicting attributes as their true identities are hidden as society shapes the idea of their individual qualities. This is shown as Eliot gives us a sense in which he is a conformist 'My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin ' as he has been apart of the middle class word - 'For I have known them all already…Beneath the music from a farther room '. This conformist side of T.S Eliot is produced prominently in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, demonstrating the idea that he shapes himself into the ideals of society. However in Rhapsody on a. Windy Night he produces a contradictory dynamic of being a conformist when he reveals the characteristics of non-conformity, how he sees the corruption of society 'Twisted like a crooked pin '. While he travels, walking through the streets in his mind at night, seeing the cold, hard, confronting images of suffering and revealing society undergoing change that has turned catastrophic 'So the hand of the child, automatic/Slipped out and pocketed a toy/I could see nothing behind that child 's eye '. Here he reveals …show more content…
This is also shown by Eliot as he believes he is a victim of the world 'brought in upon a platter. 'Clegg feels as though the world doesn 't understand him and that society looks down upon him, which illustrates the dynamic of being unable to talk to Miranda. This is also illustrated by Eliot, being unable to find words to represent what is felt "Should I say: 'that is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all ' "T.S Eliot and Clegg both obtain the quality of self-deprecating themselves. Showing a rhythm of self loathing, Clegg always retreats back to the importance of class '…I mean rich people 's London '. This is exemplified also by Eliot as he justifies himself as just an ordinary person 'No! I am not Prince Hamlet…/Am an attendant lord/…At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-/Almost, at times, the Fool