Man vs. Society: The Most Relatable Conflict in Literature

In a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where six-year-old Calvin shrugs off his bad behavior by saying he's a victim of countless bad influences, he tells his father "I'm an innocent pawn! It's society's fault." And while Calvin's dad doesn't buy that for a minute, many characters in literature face their biggest obstacles when they go against the grain and march to the beat of their own drums.