Research Paper -Ksenia
by kk080357 ~ December 2nd, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized.I want to focus on the depths of evil human nature can reach when it comes to war. In both the movies, “Paths of Glory” and “Syriana,” there are instances when authority takes advantage of its power. In Kubrick’s movie, Mireau places all of his men in danger for the possibility of a promotion. By the same token, in Gaghan’s movie, the radicals brainwash their “pupils” to commit suicide to pursue their own beliefs. I want to compare these class materials with psychological experiments that further show how quickly one can abuse their authority once given the circumstances. The Stanford County Prison Experiment required a number of volunteers in which some where given the role as prisoners and the others as guards. Surprisingly, the participants adapted to their characters surprisingly well. The guards abused their power as well as the prisoners. They tried to diminish their feeling of identity by simply calling them by numbers. The Milgrim Experiment designated the participants as the “teachers”, while the actors we the “learners.” The teachers had to shock the learners every time they answered incorrectly and the voltage they needed to use got increasingly higher. The number of participants that continued the experiment till maximum voltage was quite astonishing. When one has power, he/she often abuses it, just as when someone is being commanded by authority, he/she often blindly obeys it, as seen in both of the movies from class.
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December 9th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I feel your paper topic is great. I do know about both experiments that you are using and I agree. With authority putting pressure on you or being in power you tend to act differently because of this new position you are in. I feel that the experiments you chose are great for your topic in finding the evil nature of humans.
What I get from your topic is that your trying to see how people with power abuse authority and what kind of actions they take. The extent of their abuse and by using the experiments you try to back it up by telling us that this abuse of power comes natural towards humans since humans are mostly evil nature.
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