Lord of the Flies essay Whenever you are faced in situations where life becomes confusing, people just seem to get agitated. Not only does The Lord of the Flies show how people can go from scared to completely insane, but the “Stanford Prison Experiment”shows how you can put good people in an evil place and evil can win over humanity. As good humans are faced with evil situations where they can become mentally agitated under pressure or even life or death situations, this statement becomes true in both the novel,The Lord of the Flies, and the Stanford Prison Experiment. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy,
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The boys were forced to wear nylon hats that emulated shaving one's head. Each prisoner was only addressed by their number. The prisoners wore smocks and had no undergarments. The guards each wore the same uniform with mirrored sunglasses. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, the boys hair grew long and greasy. Their skin darkened and burned and peeled. The boys were dirty in subtle ways that can only occur as dirt builds over time. The boys began as normal kids but as time passed they lost touch with society and its morality, and they transformed into savages who cared more for meat and hunting than for being rescued from the island.
Society closely associates physical appearances with identity and as the boys change physically they found their personal identities were changing too. This statement has to do with both The Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment. The boys experienced in both cases a very big change in their personality. They became more aggressive than they otherwise tended to be. Situational influence has a clear impact on how people choose to
The boys were forced to wear nylon hats that emulated shaving one's head. Each prisoner was only addressed by their number. The prisoners wore smocks and had no undergarments. The guards each wore the same uniform with mirrored sunglasses. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, the boys hair grew long and greasy. Their skin darkened and burned and peeled. The boys were dirty in subtle ways that can only occur as dirt builds over time. The boys began as normal kids but as time passed they lost touch with society and its morality, and they transformed into savages who cared more for meat and hunting than for being rescued from the island.
Society closely associates physical appearances with identity and as the boys change physically they found their personal identities were changing too. This statement has to do with both The Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment. The boys experienced in both cases a very big change in their personality. They became more aggressive than they otherwise tended to be. Situational influence has a clear impact on how people choose to