Henry Morton Stanley

Gabriel Trinity Professor Ryan Keith PSY2012.0T1: Gen Psyc 12 September 2014 In the summer of 1961, an associate professor of psychology named Stanley Milgrim began a research project at Yale University to investigate and quantify the willingness of average individuals to follow orders from an authoritative figure that were at odds with the participants expected moral values. These series of experiments, started in July of that year, came three months into the trial of Nazi…

scene 2, the need for more information about Blanche becomes necessary for both the reader and for Stanley to form an opinion about her. The two characters have already begun their power play, each with the goal of gaining the dominance and control over the narrative of Blanche’s past. It is in these scenes as more of Blanche’s past is discovered that the shift of the protagonist begins to happen. Stanley learns of Blanche’s association with the Flamingo Hotel in Laurel, Mississippi from his…

details of the set. At intermission I made two quick moves: the first was to run up to the stage to see the set design; the second was to bolt to the lobby to see the photograph of the actor playing Stanley, whose face I could not see from my seat. At the Writers’ Theatre production, the actor playing Stanley, Matt Hawkins, was never out of sight and always right there in front of my face. When he was fighting with Stella, Blanche, and Mitch, I feared he would turn at any moment and start a…

The actual results of Milgram’s study are indeed astonishing. A troubling amount of participants threw every semblance of human morality to the wayside as they shocked an innocent citizen far past confident levels of safety. Those who did were deemed deplorable exceptions of humanity by people who could never imagine themselves doing such a thing, even though the scientific community realized that Milgram’s “teachers” were no outliers. However, Milgram’s motivation for the study lead him to…

are influencing sexuality during the filming and how the characters use sexuality as a tool to control. Sexuality is represented through many forms, Stanley, Blanche and also Stella. Sexuality is represented through Stanley, who is symbolic of the male population, who is allowed to be openly sexual and dominant but Stanley uses this as a control “Stanley uses his sexuality and aggression to assert his dominance in his household” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Society accepts sexual violence caused by…

Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire is provocative and goes in depth with the lives of his poor creatures. The looming theme throughout the story is the tragedy and cruelty that is experienced or caused by those in Williams’ Elysian Fields. Although I feel a general sympathy for many of the characters and their circumstances, Blanche’s hardships are clearly outlined and plentiful, leading to a deep sympathy for her. Tennessee Williams’ makes Blanche’s unwarranted, selfish and…

Stanley Milgram, a famous psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to see how far people would go when being directed by an authoritative figure. This experiment focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram's reasoning behind this experiment was to examine the justifications for acts of genocide and answer his question, "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders?" (Milgram, 1974).…

One instance from Stanley Kubrick’s film “A Clockwork Orange” that clearly demonstrates the criminological theory of Development was the part when the main character and his gang come upon the homeless man in the alley. Alex makes the statement that he hates homeless old men…

When Is It Wrong to Obey Authority? In the recent discussions on authority, a major dispute has been whether it is wrong to obey authority. On one side of the argument, some claim that obeying authority is wrong. From this perspective, many people see Milgram’s shock experiment and Zimbardo’s prison experiment as examples of how dangerous obeying authority is. As Milgram states the subjects in the experiment were “proud of doing a good job, obeying the experimenter under difficult…

happens to Stella after the play ends, however, in all likelihood, Stella stays with Stanley, raises his children in near poverty, and is beaten by her husband, whom she loves, for the rest of her life.…