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The chapter begins with an essay by novelist Doris Lessing, who sets the issue of obedience in the context of Western civilization’s greatly prized individualism. ... Milgram states that obedience is a basic element in the structure of social life. ... The entire point of the experiment is to determine how far the subject is willing to obey orders simply because they come from an authority figure. ... According to Milgram’s the essential of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument of carrying out another person’s wishes, and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions. All the essential features of obedience follow once this shift has occurred: The agent feels responsibility to a figure of authority, not to the victim. ... Erich Fromm sets the problem of obedience in a psychological and moral context. Fromm is especially good in alerting readers to the seductive comforts of obedience. His categorization of some forms of obedience as destructive and others as life affirming can challenge students to make distinction about forms of obedient behavior in their own lives. ... There developed a “perverted symbiotic relationship” (paragraph 19) as prisoners willingly succumbed to the arbitrary control of prison guards and guards willingly took on feelings associated with authority. ...
I was born in traditional family and my society raises me to believe that obedience is good, and disobedience is bad. ... Most people will even obedience to the point of causing harm to other, because to be disobedient requires the courage to be alone against authority.
Approximate Word count = 1244
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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