Full Metal Jacket: The Lucifer Effect

When individuals abandon their own freedom for the benefit of the larger group, they are no longer individuals but products of conformity. Obedience to authority can become dangerous when morals and independent thought are stifled to the point that harm is inflicted upon another person. "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram reports on his controversial experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders, even if carrying out those orders caused serious harm to others. This experiment caused a lot of controversy and one woman in particular believed that this experiment was immoral. Diana Baumrind's "Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience" says that Milgram

In his article "The Perils of Obedience”, Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to determine if the innate desire to obey an authority figure overrides the morality and consciousness that had been already established in a person. After Milgram conducted his experiments he concluded that 60% of the subjects complied to an authority figure rather than their own sympathy. There was additional testing outside the US which showed an even higher compliance rate. Milgram reasoned that the subjects enjoyed the gratification from the experimenter, who was the authority figure in the experiment. He noted that most of the subjects are "proud" to carry out the demands of the experimenter. Milgram believed for that reason, why the

Summary: The book, The Lucifer Effect, gives a detailed chronologic transformation of human character that took place during Zimbardo’s prison experiment. This experiment consisted of randomly assigning twenty-four healthy, normal intelligent college students. Twelve of the twenty-four individuals were assigned to role play the prisoners (nine plus three alternates), and the other twelve were chosen to role play the prison guards (also, nine plus three alternates). These students had no prior record of criminal

One example of this is the oppressive nature of John Wright. John Wright’s constant isolation from friends and such, imposed on Minnie, drove her to murder. His place as her husband gave him the power to control and decide to forcibly end anything that had brought joy into Minnie’s life. For instance, in the beginning of the play, one of the first things learned is that John Wright was a cold and distant man. Mr. Hale, the Wright’s neighbor, states how John was uninterested in taking part in a neighborhood party line, saying how “folks talked too much anyway, and all [John] asked was peace and quiet…” (____). John never considered his wife, Minnie’s, opinion. Another peculiarity the ladies discussed is how Minnie never belonged to the Ladies Aid, or any other social activities. They comment on the fact that before she was married to John, Minnie was quite active and joyful, “She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one

The Milgram experiment illustrates people 's reluctance to confront those who abuse power. By recruiting and deceiving people of all different backgrounds, he manipulated them into using punishment on people’s ability to learn. The Milgram experiment helps psychologists and sociologists explain the reasoning behind knowingly conflicting pain for a certain outcome. Milgram contributed path-breaking experiments towards the research between obedience to authority. He furthered knowledge in social networks and urban psychology.

Similarly, in Milgram 's study, it contends that obedience of an arbitrary test subject, entitled the “teacher”, was made subservient to assessing whether or not it was feasible for a human being to obey regulations that they identified as morally reprehensible. In the experiment the teacher was commanded by a superior figure, the “experimenter”, to apply voltage shocks increasing in intensity all the way up to a fatal shock for incorrect responses (79). Later in the article Milgram points out that more than half the time the teachers would submit to the orders addressed to them even though the teachers recognized the actions they were taking were morally wrong. Because of this, it obscures the subject as to why the teachers were obedient because unlike Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Louden Downey surrounded by the military culture there are no reverberations for disobedience for the teachers. As a result of this, Milgram hypothesizes the teacher’s obedience correlated to the fact that the experimenter told the teachers that they would take all the fault if anything happened to the student (81). For this reason, it leads the teaches to use scapegoating to justify their actions which Rob Reiner, director of “A Few Good Men”, would more than coincide with. Parallel, Fromm author of “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” would likewise concur with Milgram 's hypothesis and in return state more

The Milgram experiment was conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram in order to focus on the conflict between obedience to authority and to personal conscience. The experiment consisted of 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, and who’s jobs ranged from unskilled to professional. The roles of this experiment included a learner, teacher, and researcher. The participant was deemed the teacher and was in the same room as the researcher. The learner, who was also a paid actor, was put into the next room and strapped into an electric chair. The teacher administered a test to the learner, and for each question that was incorrect, the learner was to receive an electric shock by the teacher, increasing the level of shock each time. The shock generator ranged from

Milgram conducts an experiment to examine the act of obeying, and shows concrete instances. He pressures the subjects to behave in a way conflicting with morality. In the experiment, the experimenter orders the subject to give increasing electro shocks to an accomplice, when he makes an error in a learning session. The situation makes the subject

The Milgram Obedience Experiment is very interesting experiment. Inspired by the Nuremberg trials, Milgram’s experiment studied how far someone would hurt a man when under the sight of authority. 65% of the participants continued regardless of the pain felt by the ”student”, who actually was an actor. This experiment taught us a lot about the herd mentality of humans. Once the “herd” is convinced that the ideology is good they feel obligated regardless of what they feel.

2. In the film The Power of the Situation, various social experiments that examined human conformity were shown. Of these experiments, the Milgram Experiment, was conducted with a focus on obedience to an authority figure, and one’s own conscience. This experiment was brought about in order to attempt to confirm Nazi soldier’s testimonials that “obedience,” or “following orders” was the reason they committed their crimes. Within the experiment itself, Milgram had three people involved, the learner (working with Milgram) who was supposedly hooked up to a machine that was to deliver shocks when the switch was hit by the teacher, who was a random person selected for the experiment.

Social psychology explains individual behavior as prejudiced by other people and the social context. Social psychologists thus deal with the factors that lead us to behave in an assumed way in the presence of others. It examines the circumstances and situations under which certain actions and feelings follow. (University of Southern California) This paper discusses the ethical dilemma on Stanford prison experiment by Professor Zimbardo. How his social psychology experiment was unethical and what led it to be. His experiment is extending to the Milgram obedience studies.

The Lucifer Effect is a clear representation of the nature of a typical human being whenever given any authority. It represents the possibility of a kind individual in society to turn and become ruthless to the juniors whenever he rises to any form of power. The story based on the experimental research done by college students under the supervision of Philip Zimbardo at Stanford prison experiment to depict how human behavior can suddenly change to the level associated to that of evil. The Lucifer effect changes the way of reasoning of the reader since it shows how a human character can change. This thesis raises an argument and a conclusion on the changes of human behavior in prison. It remains open

Flannery O’Connor once said “Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.” From this we get the idea that the theme of good and evil is sometimes relatable to everybody and some individuals have been through events or maybe misconceptions about this. From “A Good Man is hard to Find” you can gather the sense that evil is mainly based on perception and each person has their own ideas and opinion of good and evil and also a description of there wouldn’t be any “Goodness” in the world without a balance of evil or immoral doings almost close with the concept of yin and yang. In the short story the Misfit plays very heavily in the perception of good and evil and can be characterized as someone undergoing “The Lucifer Effect”

Have you ever heard the name Lucifer? Some might even call him the devil, in fact he is. There are many stories that his name had come up in. It started from the bible, there are many comics had changed his story, and now there is a TV show. But that would be too much to cover in this essay. The two main sources I will be comparing are the comics and the TV show. The background of Lucifer is that he is a fallen angel. He got casted down to hell by his father. Lucifer didn’t want to stay in hell, so he decided to move to the city of Los Angeles to become an owner of a nightclub with the name Lux. The comic Lucifer got released back in the 2000, recently there is a remake of that same comics and also a TV show. For the TV show they change the

In the film A Few Good Men, director Rob Reiner challenges the question of why Marines obey their superiors’ orders without hesitation. The film portrays a story about two Marines, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey, charged for the murder of Private First Class William T. Santiago. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who is known to be carefree and originally considers offering a plea bargain in order to shorten Dawson and Downey’s sentence, finds himself fighting for the freedom of the Marines because they argue that they simply followed the orders given for a Code Red. The question of why people follow any order given by an authority figure has intrigued many people from the world of psychology, like Stanley Milgrim, author of “The Perils of Obedience.” Milgram conducted an experiment that tested the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. Through the experiments, Milgram discovered that most people would go against their own decisions of right and wrong to complete the requests of an authority figure. In the article “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, Philip G. Zimbardo also tested the theory of people’s obedience to authority by conducting an experiment where the guards would jokingly tell the prisoners to do something, however the prisoners would do what they were ordered to do inorder to hang on to their identity. Nearly all of the characters in the film are obedient to their superiors, and Milgram and Zimbardo would