Lord Of The Flies By Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell, a famous writer, once said, that “I believe the root of all evil is the abuse of power”. To receive power in one’s life, they bring out strong emotions, such as fear or guilt to persuade the person to obey their commands. But, these people are simply exercising their power, and only have a relationship with them asymmetrically. The person will authority has the ability to limit the choices of another, and uses physically or psychologically pain only to pursue their goal. A person can rightfully deserve power, or obtain power by acting savagely. Either way, having authority in society can force people to act inhuman, and make people suffer dramatically. Similarly, in the article “Simulated prison in ‘71 Showed a Fine Line
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The guards were so tempted to act unhuman when given power over the prisoners, it felt right. The people who were labeled as guards felt accomplished and satisfied when they sexual harassed people and started to abuse them. Since prisons automatically have a balance of unequal power, the guards impulses tend to be more aggressive and in this case brutal. In “Simulated prison ‘71 Showed a Fine Line Between ‘Normal’ and ‘Monster’”, Professor Zimbardo claimed that “it’s not like we put bad apples in a good barrel. We put good apples in a bad barrel. The barrel corrupts anything it touches” (2). The guards were completely ‘normal’ people, before they were in this social experiment. Like the professor said they were “good apples”, completely unconnected people and wouldn't do harm to anyone. Their environment and the power they had made them turn into ‘bad apples’. The guards continues to force some of the prisoners to do sexual acts, and continued to abuse them. They felt like they were doing their job, not realizing that they brought physical and emotional pain to the prisoners. Wanting power can make people act chartic, making people act uncivilized. This feeling of having power is so strong, it can affect your judgment in life. The professor even had to end his experiment two weeks earlier, since he saw a dramatic change in the guards attitudes. The act of savagely driven by power in a civilization, is also shown in The Lord Of The Flies. Their civilization started failing when Jack was devastated when he didn’t get chosen as leader on the island, and decides to only receive power by acting savagely. As the story continues, the conch begins to change it’s appearance by the “"exposure to the sun bleaching the yellow and pink to near-white,
The guards were so tempted to act unhuman when given power over the prisoners, it felt right. The people who were labeled as guards felt accomplished and satisfied when they sexual harassed people and started to abuse them. Since prisons automatically have a balance of unequal power, the guards impulses tend to be more aggressive and in this case brutal. In “Simulated prison ‘71 Showed a Fine Line Between ‘Normal’ and ‘Monster’”, Professor Zimbardo claimed that “it’s not like we put bad apples in a good barrel. We put good apples in a bad barrel. The barrel corrupts anything it touches” (2). The guards were completely ‘normal’ people, before they were in this social experiment. Like the professor said they were “good apples”, completely unconnected people and wouldn't do harm to anyone. Their environment and the power they had made them turn into ‘bad apples’. The guards continues to force some of the prisoners to do sexual acts, and continued to abuse them. They felt like they were doing their job, not realizing that they brought physical and emotional pain to the prisoners. Wanting power can make people act chartic, making people act uncivilized. This feeling of having power is so strong, it can affect your judgment in life. The professor even had to end his experiment two weeks earlier, since he saw a dramatic change in the guards attitudes. The act of savagely driven by power in a civilization, is also shown in The Lord Of The Flies. Their civilization started failing when Jack was devastated when he didn’t get chosen as leader on the island, and decides to only receive power by acting savagely. As the story continues, the conch begins to change it’s appearance by the “"exposure to the sun bleaching the yellow and pink to near-white,