Ever since the dawn of mankind, humans depended on each other for support. We looked after each other and brought help to any of our neighbors. However, that sense of community barely exists as we now live an individualistic society because of reasons such as the advent of technology like smartphones. We seem to be more engaged in our own lifestyles, refusing to change from them, which leads to negligence to help others in the society. This negligence of social responsibility and social interaction are the shared theme in the works of John Darley & Bibb Latané, Barbara Kingsolver, and Robert Frost. In Robert Frost’s narrative poem, “Mending Wall”, the theme of negligence of participation in the society is present. In “Mending Wall”,
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He only says “’Good fences make good neighbors.’” (ll 27,46) anytime the narrator persuade him. The narrator would tell him “My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines…”(ll 25-26), figuratively telling him he would not bother nor make change upon the neighbor’s life but he yields to his idea. The way the neighbor tries to keep the wall also seems to be an influence of his heritage. Towards the end of the poem, the narrator recognizes that, “He will not go behind his father’s saying,”(ll 44) as if tradition is keeping him back from change. This shows that the neighbor is either afraid of changing his lifestyle or wants to “wall” himself from anything that happens outside of his life. This is the type of mentality that humans live by in modern …show more content…
As Darley and Latané would state, the bystander must “notice that something is happening; interpret that event as an emergency; and decide that he[or she] has personal responsibility for intervention.”(par.9). They also use pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility to explain why the bystander effect occurred as well. To prove these reasons for evoking negligence, Darley, Latané, and Rodin, another psychologist, set up three psychological experiments where they wanted to see how a bystander act in a distressing situation by themselves compared to being within a group. The results showed that about 80% of the bystanders have acted upon an issue when alone but only 30% of the bystanders did so within a
He only says “’Good fences make good neighbors.’” (ll 27,46) anytime the narrator persuade him. The narrator would tell him “My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines…”(ll 25-26), figuratively telling him he would not bother nor make change upon the neighbor’s life but he yields to his idea. The way the neighbor tries to keep the wall also seems to be an influence of his heritage. Towards the end of the poem, the narrator recognizes that, “He will not go behind his father’s saying,”(ll 44) as if tradition is keeping him back from change. This shows that the neighbor is either afraid of changing his lifestyle or wants to “wall” himself from anything that happens outside of his life. This is the type of mentality that humans live by in modern …show more content…
As Darley and Latané would state, the bystander must “notice that something is happening; interpret that event as an emergency; and decide that he[or she] has personal responsibility for intervention.”(par.9). They also use pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility to explain why the bystander effect occurred as well. To prove these reasons for evoking negligence, Darley, Latané, and Rodin, another psychologist, set up three psychological experiments where they wanted to see how a bystander act in a distressing situation by themselves compared to being within a group. The results showed that about 80% of the bystanders have acted upon an issue when alone but only 30% of the bystanders did so within a