Two contrasting conformatism scenes

Today we had to devise and perform two contrasting scenes to show if we can still relate to the message of Metamorphosis today.

• The First scene involved Ellie playing Gregor and started off with us all rising her using our hands and saying 'Gregor' in a slightly patronising and creepy voice. We then kept the voices and handed and put on her different things to force her to go to work and at the end said 'Now you can make...money!' We did this to show how Gregor needed to conform even in his bug state and was forced to work by his family. We then put our hands on 'Gregor' and pushed him to the ground to symbolise the pressure whilst saying 'beer, clothes, money, cigars' in succession. We then said them a further time together whilst on the floor and formed the bug with Gregor. The most effective thing about this scene was our use of levels as as it showed how Gregor had to conform to our standards as we were more powerful than him. The fact that we used puppetry could also show how the weak can be controlled easily and how they conform to society. This suggests how Metamorphosis can relate to the reader today so is still relevant as shows hows we should be wary of the weak.
• The second scene was a very typical school corridor scene. At the end of the first scene, we were all on the floor do moved into the next scene Ellie finding her lip gloss on the floor. We then all stood on chairs in a diagonal line and all together we reached for the lip gloss, put it on from left to right and then rubbed it in. Lloyd then walked across wearing a scarf and we all turned with our hands on our hips to look at him in disgust. We then made various comments about how she was a fashion reject as he was acting as if he was a tomboy but we were all very stereotypical girls. We then showed a complete contrast as when Yvonne had the scarf, we all had how lovely it was and wanted one of our own. We then all looked at Lloyd at the end to show that, even though one of us now had the same scarf, he still wasn't allowed to be part of our group. This shows that fashions change and how trying to conform in one society may be different to another. I think it links to Metamorphosis as it demonstrates how easily people are outcast. In these cases, it was only a scarf that Lloyd was discriminated for and, although it is quite a big thing to be transformed into a bug, he was still part of the family so I understand they outcast him too easily.