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Defiance And Rebellion In Great Expectations & Catcher In The Rye Defiance and rebellion have nothing to do with politics, power and violence, rather they have to do with changing ones consciousness, ones silence, ones being and by doing this, society is affected with this spiritual metamorphosis. Each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is fighting only with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, neither are bombs. What are needed are more alertness, more meditation, more love, more praying, and more gratitude. Surrounded by all of these qualities people are born anew. Defiance is to go against the bounds of conformity that society has created for one’s beliefs and is an individual action, having nothing to do with the crowd, however these beliefs may not always be positive and often may have severely negative outcomes. Holden Caulfield a character in the book Catcher in the Rye is the perfect example of a young male that rejects and thus defies the views and values set by society, also attempting to rebel against the general law of nature, which is to age. Phillip Pirrip also known, as “Pip”, is another major character that is presented within Great Expectations who has different reasons to defy society, one jews, people, revolution, hitler, thus, society, social, pip, class, peoples, one, holden, black, against, young, opinions, man, king, government, famous, defiant, been, world, voice, rebellious, marat, made, known, equality, blacks, through, shall, racial, never, life