People’s beliefs can change in a blink of an eye. It happens every day, in every household, every school, and every workplace. Sometimes people are forced into situations they would not like to be in. In The Nuremberg Trials, Gang Rape by Stephanie Chen, Perils of obedience by Stanley Milgram, Pearl Harbor Echoes In Seattle by Monica Sone, and the book Night by Elie Wiesel, normal individuals are faced with pressure, fear, and survival instincts which force them to change their beliefs.
Pressure from an outside source can leave people in an undesirable situation which causes them to change their beliefs. For example, in the Milgram experiment, individuals were tested to see how far obedience will take them into hurting other individuals.The objective of the …show more content…
Go on, please...i’m responsible for anything that happens to him..." (Milgram 4). The pressure from a higher authority put Prozi in an undesirable situation. This prompted his beliefs to become distorted. Before the experiment Fred thought that hurting people was wrong, but the experimenter told him he would take all the responsibility which pressured Fred to change his beliefs and think that hurting others was tolerable. Another example can be found in the Pearl Harbor story. This story is set in 1941, when Japanese families were forced to evacuate to internment camps during World War 2. The family in this story is very upset about having to move to the camps. They “gradually...became uncomfortable with… Japanese books, magazines, wall scrolls and knickknacks”(Sone 302). This situation was created by pressure from the government. The members of the family feels as if it was a disgrace being Japanese because the government said so. Their beliefs on being proud to be Japanese were changed because of pressure from an outside source of higher authority. The family used to be happy. until the pressure came and they believed having Japanese belongings was a disgrace. Finally, in the Nuremberg Trials,
Pressure from an outside source can leave people in an undesirable situation which causes them to change their beliefs. For example, in the Milgram experiment, individuals were tested to see how far obedience will take them into hurting other individuals.The objective of the …show more content…
Go on, please...i’m responsible for anything that happens to him..." (Milgram 4). The pressure from a higher authority put Prozi in an undesirable situation. This prompted his beliefs to become distorted. Before the experiment Fred thought that hurting people was wrong, but the experimenter told him he would take all the responsibility which pressured Fred to change his beliefs and think that hurting others was tolerable. Another example can be found in the Pearl Harbor story. This story is set in 1941, when Japanese families were forced to evacuate to internment camps during World War 2. The family in this story is very upset about having to move to the camps. They “gradually...became uncomfortable with… Japanese books, magazines, wall scrolls and knickknacks”(Sone 302). This situation was created by pressure from the government. The members of the family feels as if it was a disgrace being Japanese because the government said so. Their beliefs on being proud to be Japanese were changed because of pressure from an outside source of higher authority. The family used to be happy. until the pressure came and they believed having Japanese belongings was a disgrace. Finally, in the Nuremberg Trials,