When The Guards Rhetorical Analysis
My first impression from watching the film was the relationship between the study’s prisoners and guards seemed friendly at first. Though they’re encouraged by Zimbardo and his associates to take the experiment seriously and to invest themselves fully in their roles, the subjects initially still understand that they’re not really in a prison but then, the experiment takes a turn when a guard named Christopher Archer begins to embrace a meaner personality one, in which I suspect from watching the experiment, is not his normal demeanor but, rather, a more boosted version of himself of which he perceives to be his role. Archer introduces an element of meanness to the proceedings, altering the prisoners’ mindset the prisoners start to feel dehumanization
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The subjects will work it out among themselves, he insists. Watching this movie throughout my life I have come contact with supervisors and member’s management whom have let power corrupt themselves to where they don’t even act as if they are human. This movie shows me that power trippers believe that once given a position of authority, they will get the respect and social status they feel they deserve. People entire attitude toward power, it seems that it plays a major role in how a person will use their authority. This movie was a great example of showing me that power-seekers can be overwhelming, one they know they have power over you they will walk all over you. A person who craves power may resort to intimidation, manipulation or downright aggression which is showed in this film. It seemed as though the prisoners and guards thought this is just an experiment. In my opinion the prisoners and the guards probably would have never thought this experiment would have taken a detrimental effect on both of them. As I was watching this film I asked myself how this could possibly have happened to the mindset of the guards for them to behave this
The subjects will work it out among themselves, he insists. Watching this movie throughout my life I have come contact with supervisors and member’s management whom have let power corrupt themselves to where they don’t even act as if they are human. This movie shows me that power trippers believe that once given a position of authority, they will get the respect and social status they feel they deserve. People entire attitude toward power, it seems that it plays a major role in how a person will use their authority. This movie was a great example of showing me that power-seekers can be overwhelming, one they know they have power over you they will walk all over you. A person who craves power may resort to intimidation, manipulation or downright aggression which is showed in this film. It seemed as though the prisoners and guards thought this is just an experiment. In my opinion the prisoners and the guards probably would have never thought this experiment would have taken a detrimental effect on both of them. As I was watching this film I asked myself how this could possibly have happened to the mindset of the guards for them to behave this