Morality is defined as a human’s values of good or bad behavior and right and wrongs. Like in Lord of the Flies, with Jack once a choir boy who turned into a crazy dictator. The Sandford Prisoner with the change in behavior with the normal people who were given power. And the Milgram experiment with people who were given the power. When put into intense situations, humans go through stages until their morality has changed to adapt to the problems that occur around them because humans want to protect themselves.
Sometimes being in an intense situation can happen when you are least expecting it. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph had been working hard to ensure everybody’s safety while he forgot about his. In the novel, it is said that “Ralph …show more content…
Ralph was first the leader because of the counch shell. Later, Jack was the leader because of his threats and aggressiveness. In the Milgrim experiment, it is proved that “people tend to obey orders from other people if they recognize their authority as morally right and/or legally based.” (Page 3) The boys followed their leaders blindly. They didn’t want to take all the blame and all the hard work that came with being a leader, so the boys would follow anyone who would take charge. Following a leader would mean to do everything they say even if it’s against your morality. The boy’s morals changed depending on the leader. With Ralph, their morals didn’t change, besides maybe hunting and some occasional bullying of the younger ones, but nothing too out of hand. With Jack, the change in everyone’s morals stretched as far to murder. The only reason to why the boys followed Jack was because the “Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions.” (Page 3) In the end of the book, when the entire island was on fire, the man who saved the boys asked who was in charge and Ralph said it was him. Jack didn’t argue because he knew he couldn’t accept the consequences for his actions, thereby not being a true
Sometimes being in an intense situation can happen when you are least expecting it. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph had been working hard to ensure everybody’s safety while he forgot about his. In the novel, it is said that “Ralph …show more content…
Ralph was first the leader because of the counch shell. Later, Jack was the leader because of his threats and aggressiveness. In the Milgrim experiment, it is proved that “people tend to obey orders from other people if they recognize their authority as morally right and/or legally based.” (Page 3) The boys followed their leaders blindly. They didn’t want to take all the blame and all the hard work that came with being a leader, so the boys would follow anyone who would take charge. Following a leader would mean to do everything they say even if it’s against your morality. The boy’s morals changed depending on the leader. With Ralph, their morals didn’t change, besides maybe hunting and some occasional bullying of the younger ones, but nothing too out of hand. With Jack, the change in everyone’s morals stretched as far to murder. The only reason to why the boys followed Jack was because the “Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions.” (Page 3) In the end of the book, when the entire island was on fire, the man who saved the boys asked who was in charge and Ralph said it was him. Jack didn’t argue because he knew he couldn’t accept the consequences for his actions, thereby not being a true