Compare And Contrast Milgram Experiment And Adolf Hitler

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Laughing with friends could not hide her pain. By the end of the day, she tasted her salty tears as it rolled down her cheeks. Family, friends, a house, and 2 legs wasn’t enough to take her away from her own depression. Although depression was invisible, it controlled the poor girl. She had the option to fight her battles with the support of loved ones, but she gave in to an invisible leader. She gave into depression which ruled her world and led her to the noose. Across the world, people were blindly listening to a man which had no purpose. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler manipulated the Germans into thinking there wasn’t an escape from his rulings. Proving this theory, in the Milgram’s experiment, a scientist gathered average human beings and assigned them as students and others as teachers. Within this experiment, it led to the conclusion that humans obey orders when they aren’t given another option and when a title is placed on the instructor. Similar to the Milgram’s Experiment, in the massacre at Jamestown, people devoted themselves to a human being who claimed to be unstoppable. What the poor girl, Jamestown, and the Milgram experiment shared was …show more content…

In the gloomy side, there is a noose, which represents people, in the 21st century, who follow leaders and sacrifice themselves in that process. Within the background, there is a picture of a shadow taking pictures of the noose. While taking pictures of the noose, and distracting herself/himself with the quality of her/his phone and social media, she is blinded to acknowledge what she/he’s missing out on. Similar to Materialism, humans focus on what social media portrays or the amount of “likes” a person can get on their post. Within a materialistic world, humans focus solely on materials and their own values. While the person takes photo’s of the noose and is on their phone, he/she is ignoring what could have happened to the person who used

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