https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9 en-us 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC 2025-12-26 06:08:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229281 People are prone to blindly follow an authoritative figure, even when following that figure harms them or others. ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229281 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229282      
                      ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229282 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229283 Animal Farm is about a farm full of overworked, unhappy animals. The animals decide to take action, and they rebel and overthrow the oppressive farmer. The group of  "comrades" set up laws, traditions, and a government. However, as time goes on the government (pigs) get more and more corrupted. Though the animals don't understand the subtle signs of corruption, they are there. Eventually, the pigs have made the farm only serve their self interests and the rest of the animals are some of the most overworked, and underfed in the country! Not only this, but the situation is now worse than how it was before the rebellion.  ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229283 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229284 "Several of them would have protested if they'd found the right arguments...Four young porkers...sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down." Page 54]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229284 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229285 This scene was the beginning of the end for the animals, meaning that this was what started the chain of events that lead to the complete corruption of Animal Farm. Napoleon's dogs frightened everyone, so no one protested against him taking all the power.(Which has the same effect as blindly following someone) Because of this, he was in a position to take complete control of the farm and do anything he wanted with to it.]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229285 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229286 This image shows how many people can be supporting or following one person. Imagine, if this person is evil then all the things these people do to help him(no matter if they'e intentions are good) are evil.    ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229286 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229288 The sheep are all following the shepherd, without knowing where they are heading or why they are going there. ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229288 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229289 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229289 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229290 In 1961 Stanley Milgram performed an experiment to examine  the justification of people who followed Adolf Hitler's horrendous orders in the Holocaust, their defense being they were old following "orders." To experiment on obedience Milgram devised the Milgram Experiment. A confederate or accomplice of Milgram (learner) and a participant (teacher) were paired up. The learner was told to memorize pairs of words, and if he made a mistake the teacher was instructed to administer an electric shock. It wasn't a real electric shock, the learner was an actor and the machine didn't work. However, the teacher thought it was a real shock. The experiment's results were that 65%  of participants continued to the highest (fake) electric shock of 450! All of the participants went up to 300. There were variations of the experiments with different results, like seeing the learner and having to physically put the learner's hand on the (fake) shock plate. In this case, less people were obedient. In another variation people chose how much they shocked the learner only 2.5 
went up to 450 in that variation. Other things that affected obedience were distance to the experimenter, and how the experimenter was dressed.  ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229290 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229291 "Stark authority was pitted against the subjects’ [participants’] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects’ [participants’] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not."-  Milgram wrote in "The Perils of Obedience" ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229291 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229292 The people went against their moral compass to follow an authoritative figure. They blindly followed someone telling them to harm another. If the experiment wasn't fake, they could have killed someone. This is obviously an example of how blindly following someone could end disastrously for others.  ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229292 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229293 If this was not an experiment, the subject could have been killed by the procedure, and the participants probably were aware of this. However, because an authoritative figure instructed them to hurt someone, they did so.      

]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229293 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229294 This man is clearly upset by what was happening. Many people probably felt like this, but like the previous image because someone told go against their moral codes, they did so.

]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229294 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229295 This video explains how the experiment worked, and how people obeyed someone even though they heard the subject getting hurt. It illustrates how upsetting the situation must have been for the participant, however they continued with the experiment because someone told them to.    

]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229295 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229296 As you can see from the Milgram Experiment, it is realistic for the animals to follow Napoleon as they did. As the Milgram Experiment shows, people are prone to commit atrocious actions when prodded to do so by legitimate seeming leaders. So it makes sense that if they'd harm someone else when an authoritative figure told them to, they might harm themselves (slave to work on something that doesn't even help them) when someone told them to, as the animals did. It also explains why the animals didn't speak out when Napoleon killed other animals, they were following him without question. So, the experiment and book both illustrate how people follow leaders (often blindly) even when it is bad for them and for everyone else.     ]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229296 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229297 Encina, Gregorio Billikopf. “Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority.” Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority, University of California , 2014, nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm.

McLeod, Saul. “The Milgram Experiment.” SimplyPsychology, SimplyPschology, 2007, www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html.

“Milgram Experiment - Obedience to Authority.” Milgram Experiment - Will People Do Anything If Ordered?, Explorable.com, 6 Feb. 2008, explorable.com/stanley-milgram-experiment.]]> 2018-01-24 14:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224229297 cecilia_combs https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224367285 Workers have no say in what they build, they just have to supply the labor to get the job done. This is like how the animals willingly work like slaves for the pigs, without really realizing the end results of their labors.]]> 2018-01-24 18:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cecilia_combs/a57hx3ossi9/wish/224367285