Post by sophied02 on Oct 24, 2007 13:45:01 GMT -5
www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/milgram_obedience_experiment.html
This website shows that people under the command of another actually administered sometimes deadly shocks to someone sitting in an electric chair. This shows that people will do anything if they are commanded to do so. This experiment relates to the Crucible because the Puritans of Salem were told by Abigail and the girls that had slowly become saints and leaders in the town that the people they were crying out against were witches. The people such as Hale and Danforth actually believed them because they had manipulated the consensus in their favor. These people such as Hale and Danforth are not violent people, but when they were under this illusion of authority they were sending many innocent people to hang.
This website shows that people under the command of another actually administered sometimes deadly shocks to someone sitting in an electric chair. This shows that people will do anything if they are commanded to do so. This experiment relates to the Crucible because the Puritans of Salem were told by Abigail and the girls that had slowly become saints and leaders in the town that the people they were crying out against were witches. The people such as Hale and Danforth actually believed them because they had manipulated the consensus in their favor. These people such as Hale and Danforth are not violent people, but when they were under this illusion of authority they were sending many innocent people to hang.