Final exam essay!
Do people have potential to be evil even as a child? Or are their environments what shapes them? William Golding believed that people were born with the propensity to do evil. As for Jean-Jacques Rousseau truthfully states, that people are shaped from their environments to either good or evil. There are several examples that show that Rousseau is correct about her opinion.
For example in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding the boys did not start off evil it gradually got to that point. The boys were kind, good leaders, and organised. Now even though we cannot determine the boy's home lives. I would say we have a pretty good idea of what they’re like. As the time went on in the book, the boys slowly got more savage. …show more content…
When people get into a powerful state it changes them, due to the environment of the way they’re treated. This makes the power of leadership a scary thing. For example the Milgram experiment. In this experiment people were put in a room for a questionnaire, they were asking the questions. They were told that every question the person got wrong they had to shock them. They were shown even the point that the person would die. What they didn’t know is that on the other side of the wall the person was an actor. Most of the people all went up or past the point of death. This could be because the instructor kept telling them to keep going with the shocking and questioning. People are less likely to stick up for themselves if they hardly know the person. It isn’t because they wanted to hurt the person. A lot of the people didn’t want to continue the experiment but did when Milgram asked that they continue they did so. This also goes with The Lord of The Flies. In the end of the book the two boys samneric did a similar thing but went against their temptations. The boys were on watch for Ralph (who has done nothing wrong) because Jack and Roger told them to. The boys had much fear for Jack and Roger and did what they said. When Ralph showed up to the boys who he saw as friends and asked them to come with him they said no. (The boys were in such fear that they thought that they would be killed if they were found.)On the other hand they did help
Do people have potential to be evil even as a child? Or are their environments what shapes them? William Golding believed that people were born with the propensity to do evil. As for Jean-Jacques Rousseau truthfully states, that people are shaped from their environments to either good or evil. There are several examples that show that Rousseau is correct about her opinion.
For example in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding the boys did not start off evil it gradually got to that point. The boys were kind, good leaders, and organised. Now even though we cannot determine the boy's home lives. I would say we have a pretty good idea of what they’re like. As the time went on in the book, the boys slowly got more savage. …show more content…
When people get into a powerful state it changes them, due to the environment of the way they’re treated. This makes the power of leadership a scary thing. For example the Milgram experiment. In this experiment people were put in a room for a questionnaire, they were asking the questions. They were told that every question the person got wrong they had to shock them. They were shown even the point that the person would die. What they didn’t know is that on the other side of the wall the person was an actor. Most of the people all went up or past the point of death. This could be because the instructor kept telling them to keep going with the shocking and questioning. People are less likely to stick up for themselves if they hardly know the person. It isn’t because they wanted to hurt the person. A lot of the people didn’t want to continue the experiment but did when Milgram asked that they continue they did so. This also goes with The Lord of The Flies. In the end of the book the two boys samneric did a similar thing but went against their temptations. The boys were on watch for Ralph (who has done nothing wrong) because Jack and Roger told them to. The boys had much fear for Jack and Roger and did what they said. When Ralph showed up to the boys who he saw as friends and asked them to come with him they said no. (The boys were in such fear that they thought that they would be killed if they were found.)On the other hand they did help