Although they were sitting in a cold cell, their fight did not end there. They went on hunger strikes and demanded to be treated as political prisoners. However, they were met with violence. All of the suffragists, including the old and weak, were beaten and made to live in unsanitary conditions. However, Ms. Paul and the others would not eat.
The group from The Breakfast Club was forced into confinement for a whole day. They did not know each other previously, and most were being punished for whatever they did wrong. In addition, they hardly had anything in common and did not like each other from the start. They thought this Saturday would be the worst of their lives, but it turned out to be one of the most memorable. They complained and fought for the first hour or so but then they began to open up and talk to each other.
He feels guilty because he watched his friend get raped and he was too cowardly to intervene. A comparison I made to this was from the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The narrator in that novel is going through a struggle as well. His internal conflict is whether or not he should help his father or if it should be “every man for his self”. In Night Elie Wiesel and his father are in a concentration camp.
The first stage all the prisoners went through was shock: the shock of leaving loved ones behind and of the ugliness, suffering, and pain that now engulfed them. The experience of “being” someone to becoming a number, coupled with the idea that a mere wave of a finger could mean life or death, only added to the shock factor. Moreover, this was the point when the inmate realized that his whole existence was gone. Frankl comments, “I struck out my whole former life” (14, 53). The stark realization that they were nobody, which only took a few days according to Frankl, drove the prisoners into the next stage, apathy (20).
3) After the study, how do you think the prisoners and guards felt when they saw each other in the same civilian clothes again and saw their prison reconverted to a basement laboratory hallway? After the experiment, the experimenter must have felt a lot of guilt, hate and embarrassment towards each other. Even though it was an experiment and they knew it wasn’t real, they had actual real emotions towards each other such as dictatorship and anxiety. They mot have felt any better, knowing that the basement was made into a prison facility and reconverted to a lab hallway. The only impression they may have had was that it was a horrible experience knowing it was a prison 4) If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study?
This is a feeling of control and authority and power in jail. This is a sick presentation and awful test for a person to experience but it often happens all the time in jail and we can’t do anything about it. The psychosomatic reason of why kidnapping, rape, and murder occurs in jail is because when they were youngsters, they never belonged in group activities with their family or even worse, their parents left them as orphans in a young age. Many of them were sexually abused or physically abused as children and they want some pay back as adults. Now they feel superior and powerful by doing these horrible things to other jailbirds to feel fitted and recognize, and
The experiment quickly took on a very serious tone. With the guards acting like real guards and vice versa for the prisoners. The experiments relevance can be realized with situations such as Abu Ghraib , and the Attica and San Quentin riots. “In only a few days, our guards became sadistic and our prisoners became depressed and showed signs of extreme stress.”-Philip Zimbardo. Its amazing that after a whole life of being a one person, in only a few days this experiment turned all the participants into stereotyped
Red of course bets on Andy but to his dismay, it was another newbie whose time was short lived. The first night at Shawshank this prisoner sobs out saying he does not belong there and he would not shut up, Captain Hadley beats him to death without any repercussions. Therefore how does a prison rehabilitate prisoners if the guards that oversee them are just as much criminals as them or even worse? This is not the only unlawful killing in shawshank during Andy’s
Before the age of eighteen, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and got sent to jail. He was treated like an animal in jail but he never gave up. He got abused and was confined to deadlock maximum security in a subterranean dungeon. He would not eat for weeks and became more and more sluggish. But besides what he went through, he learned how to read and write.
Indeed, the executions in Kilmainham made them react because of their barbarity: one of the leaders, who was hurt to the leg, could not get up, so the people who ran the jail, who still wanted to execute him, tied him up to a chair, and shot him that way. The barbarity of that execution made Irish People react. The jail, on top of that, made the prisoners live in terrible conditions : there were not enough cells for every prisoner, so they had to put many people in the same room, women, men and children together : they were also treated the same way. There were a lot of children in that jail, but they had to do everything that an adult would do, and if they would disobey, they would receive the same treatment as adults: the prisoners were beaten with a whip, and vinegar was put on their wounds afterwards. A week later, when the wounds began to heal, the guards would beat them over.