Narrative Matters: Is obedience good? the classics may surprise us

We are conditioned not to see some of the most potent facts; one of these repressed facts is the common assumption that goodness is the same as obedience - you are good if you 'do what you're told' - and bad if you are disobedient. To illustrate how this invisibility of social conditioning works, some very famous stories are helpful, both for how this conditioning works and for how it is resisted, because, simply put, obedience is not the same as being good.