Essay On Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment
Experiments and war are not often thought of being similar. Experiments are thought to be sterile, civilianized, and controlled; with men in pristine white coats rushing about carrying test tubes and clipboards. On the other hand, war is chaotic and anarchic; filled with disease, death, and suffering. War is bloodshed and loss; while experiments are organized and precise. Psychological experiments can be used to simulate warlike tendencies and behaviors. The Milgram Obedience Experiment, tests how people respond to others physical pain when being commanded by a higher ranking authority figure. The Stanford Prison Experiment, illustrated how people reacted when put in a position of utmost power. The Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment, showed how
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people behave and treat others that are thought to be lesser than them. Louie Zamperini, from Unbroken, suffers greatly under the control of Japanese soldiers in World War II. The Japanese soldiers are liable for thousands of POW deaths, and life long trauma. The pain and suffering these men faced is often a mystery to those who were not there. But, with psychological experiments it is easier to comprehend how badly these men were treated. The three experiments exhibit the effects on everyday normal people when faced with obedience and authority. The experiments explain why Louie’s captors acted the way they did and allow readers to understand their actions.
The 1961 results of the Milgram Obedience Experiment explain the behavior of the Japanese soldiers in World War II. The experiment showed the behavior of men when given orders from a high ranking authority figure. In the experiment there was a teacher a student, and an experimenter. The teacher and experimenter were placed in the same room, the student in another. The teacher would ask the student a series of questions, if the student got the answer wrong the teacher was instructed to shock him. The student would at some point beg the teacher to stop, plead to be released, or stop answering questions all together. If the teacher failed to continue with the experiment, the experimenter would insist that they keeping going for the sake of the experiment. Results showed that 65% of the participants applied maximum power onto the student. In the novel, Unbroken, there are several instances were higher ranking authority figures appointed lower ranking soldiers with power in order to get them to treat the prisoners brutally.
He [The Bird] said that he’s only been trying to teach the POWs military discipline, and asserted that he’d been acting under orders (Hillenbrand 404).
The soldiers were made to believe that what they were doing was moral. The Japanese were ordered to act out viciously towards the prisoners. The Bird, a Japanese soldier, stated that he behaved the way he did because he’d been instructed to.The soldiers were not informed on how to properly care for and punish the prisoners.
If I [The Bird] had been better educated during the war, I think I would have been kinder, more friendly (Hillenbrand 404).
The soldiers were not trained on how to handle the prisoners. The Japanese treated the men brutally and unjustly because they were ordered to. Therefore, the Japanese were behaving just like the participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment. The Japanese were being informed to act out against the POWs, much like the participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment. The Japanese soldiers acted similarly to the participants in The Stanford Prison Experiment. The 1971 experiment consisted of guards and prisoners. The prisoners were taken from their houses, stripped naked, given a uniform with an issued number, and their personal items were confiscated. The guards wore a khaki uniform, were adorned with a whistle and handcuffs, and wore dark shade to eliminate eye contact with the prisoners. The prisoners were kept in a six by nine foot prison cells, the cells mere rooms in a hallway. In the cells there would be three prisoners and three cots. Across from the three prison cells there were rooms for the prison guards and the warden. A very small and cramped room served as solitary confinement and another miniscule room was the prison yard. The prisoners were to stay in the prison hallway till the end of the experiment. Guards on the other hand only stayed during their eight hour shift and were then permitted to return home. The experiment was established to last two weeks, but had to be ended on the sixth day. The guards became abusive, hostile, and started to dehumanized the prisoners. Some guards became sadistic and barbaric. A few guards exhibited signs of pleasure from treating the prisoners forcefully. The prisoner in turn started to suffer anxiety and depression. They then became dependent on the guards. He [Louie Zamperini] was forbidden to speak to anyone but the guards, to put his hands in his pockets, or to make eye contact with other captives (Hillenbrand 198).
The soldiers did not allow the prisoners to have any kind of interact with one another. Thus, making the prisoners helpless and making them dependent on the soldiers. The men were stripped of their rights to speak freely, to look about, and to simply rest their hands in their pockets. Men [the Japanese prisoners of war] subjected to dehumanizing treatment experienced profound wretchedness and loneliness and find that hope is almost impossible to retain (Hillenbrand 187).
The Japanese POWs were constantly beaten, starved, and degraded by the Japanese soldiers. The men succumbed to the relentless brutality of the Japanese. Most lost all hope and numerous men became depressed.
In prison camp, he’d [Louie Zamperini] been beaten into dehumanized obedience to a world order in which the Bird was absolute sovereign, and it was under this would that he still lived (Hillenbrand 378).
The Bird, a particular barbarous and sadistic Japanese soldier, dehumanized Louie Zamperini the most. The Bird’s grueling punishments clung to Louie well after the war. The Bird tormented Louie and abused him so much that Louie had to beg him to get vital necessities.
Limping, sick, and hungry, he begged the Bird for work so he could get fill rations again (Hillenbrand 307).
The soldiers and guards at the camp controlled the mens life; they ultimately decided who succumbed to death and who lived. The prisoners were dependent on the Japanese. The Japanese guards were their main source of food, water, and medicine. The guards knew that the men were dependent on them, but they continued to tormented the prisoners. The Japanese acted brutally towards the prisoners because they were given a miniscule amount of power and they exploited it. They took over the prisoners lives, made the prisoners beg them for almost every necessity they needed. In all, the guards in The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Japanese soldiers behaved in the same savage ways. Both parties made their prisoners rely on them, became hostile and brutal towards the men, and dehumanized them. The guards for the experiment and the Japanese guards both convied sadistic, demoralizing, and ruthless behavior towards their inmates. The men made the prisoners feel like lesser beings, viciously attacked, and harassed the men. Both groups of men portrayed almost identical behaviors; even though they were in different situations and came from contrasting cultural backgrounds and customs. The Japanese were also infused with racism like the children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment.
In 1968, in a third grade classroom in Riceville, Iowa Jane Elliott told her classroom that people with brown eyes were better. Elliott then went on to say that people with brown eyes were smarter because they had more melanin; the pigmentation in skin, hair, and eyes that is responsible for the color. The children in her class were split up. They were given paper bracelets to identify their eye color. The brown eye students then started to gang up on the blue eyed students. Students with blue had now began to have troubles with topics that they once found easy. The next week the role was reversed, the blue eyed children were now smarter and better than the brown eyed children. By the end of the experiment, the children learned how it felt to be ostracized by people based on how much melanin they possessed. In Unbroken, the Japanese soldiers were filled with prejudice towards the …show more content…
POWs.
The Japanese, he [Nakajima Chikuhei] continued are the sole superior race of the world (Hillenbrand 49).
The Japanese soldiers were instilled with the thought that they were the best race in the world. This thought often came from political leaders of high stauter. War propaganda was also common, and depicted the Japanese as superior beings. This racism, and hatred and fear it fermented, surely served as an accelerant for abuse of Allied prisoners (Hillenbrand 201).
With the Japanese thinking that they were the superior race, it made it easier to beat the POWs.
The racism fueled the Japanese to lash out towards the prisoners in their camps. Their deep rooted hatred for any race but their own made it practically effortless for them to relentlessly beat the prisoners. The children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment and the Japanese both had racism instilled into them. The Japanese’s prejudices came from political leaders, war propaganda, and high ranked military leaders. While, the student’s racism came from their teacher, who instilled the thought into their minds. Both parties were trained to think and act out with racisms by authority
figures. The participants of the experiments and the Japanese soldiers displayed the same characteristics. The participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment were told to shock students in the study if they answered the question wrong. Many participants shocked students because they were ordered to by authority figures. The Japanese tormented the POWs because they were ordered to by superiors. In both cases the men were following orders given to them from higher ranking authority figures. In The Stanford Prison Experiment, random college students were chosen to be guards and prisoners. The guards quickly became callous towards their prisoners. The Japanese became belligerent towards the POWs that were being detained in their camps. The prisoners in both situations became extremely dependent on the guards. The children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment, who were once innocent adolescents, became racist towards the other children in their class. The children were taught that brown eyes were superior to blue eyes and vice versa. The inferior children soon started to belittle the children with the eye color minority. The Japanese soldiers were told that they were the inferior race. The Japanese became racist against any other race besides their own; just like the children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment. The Japanese soldiers portrayed identical behaviors towards the POWs in their control, that the participants in the experiments illustrated.
people behave and treat others that are thought to be lesser than them. Louie Zamperini, from Unbroken, suffers greatly under the control of Japanese soldiers in World War II. The Japanese soldiers are liable for thousands of POW deaths, and life long trauma. The pain and suffering these men faced is often a mystery to those who were not there. But, with psychological experiments it is easier to comprehend how badly these men were treated. The three experiments exhibit the effects on everyday normal people when faced with obedience and authority. The experiments explain why Louie’s captors acted the way they did and allow readers to understand their actions.
The 1961 results of the Milgram Obedience Experiment explain the behavior of the Japanese soldiers in World War II. The experiment showed the behavior of men when given orders from a high ranking authority figure. In the experiment there was a teacher a student, and an experimenter. The teacher and experimenter were placed in the same room, the student in another. The teacher would ask the student a series of questions, if the student got the answer wrong the teacher was instructed to shock him. The student would at some point beg the teacher to stop, plead to be released, or stop answering questions all together. If the teacher failed to continue with the experiment, the experimenter would insist that they keeping going for the sake of the experiment. Results showed that 65% of the participants applied maximum power onto the student. In the novel, Unbroken, there are several instances were higher ranking authority figures appointed lower ranking soldiers with power in order to get them to treat the prisoners brutally.
He [The Bird] said that he’s only been trying to teach the POWs military discipline, and asserted that he’d been acting under orders (Hillenbrand 404).
The soldiers were made to believe that what they were doing was moral. The Japanese were ordered to act out viciously towards the prisoners. The Bird, a Japanese soldier, stated that he behaved the way he did because he’d been instructed to.The soldiers were not informed on how to properly care for and punish the prisoners.
If I [The Bird] had been better educated during the war, I think I would have been kinder, more friendly (Hillenbrand 404).
The soldiers were not trained on how to handle the prisoners. The Japanese treated the men brutally and unjustly because they were ordered to. Therefore, the Japanese were behaving just like the participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment. The Japanese were being informed to act out against the POWs, much like the participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment. The Japanese soldiers acted similarly to the participants in The Stanford Prison Experiment. The 1971 experiment consisted of guards and prisoners. The prisoners were taken from their houses, stripped naked, given a uniform with an issued number, and their personal items were confiscated. The guards wore a khaki uniform, were adorned with a whistle and handcuffs, and wore dark shade to eliminate eye contact with the prisoners. The prisoners were kept in a six by nine foot prison cells, the cells mere rooms in a hallway. In the cells there would be three prisoners and three cots. Across from the three prison cells there were rooms for the prison guards and the warden. A very small and cramped room served as solitary confinement and another miniscule room was the prison yard. The prisoners were to stay in the prison hallway till the end of the experiment. Guards on the other hand only stayed during their eight hour shift and were then permitted to return home. The experiment was established to last two weeks, but had to be ended on the sixth day. The guards became abusive, hostile, and started to dehumanized the prisoners. Some guards became sadistic and barbaric. A few guards exhibited signs of pleasure from treating the prisoners forcefully. The prisoner in turn started to suffer anxiety and depression. They then became dependent on the guards. He [Louie Zamperini] was forbidden to speak to anyone but the guards, to put his hands in his pockets, or to make eye contact with other captives (Hillenbrand 198).
The soldiers did not allow the prisoners to have any kind of interact with one another. Thus, making the prisoners helpless and making them dependent on the soldiers. The men were stripped of their rights to speak freely, to look about, and to simply rest their hands in their pockets. Men [the Japanese prisoners of war] subjected to dehumanizing treatment experienced profound wretchedness and loneliness and find that hope is almost impossible to retain (Hillenbrand 187).
The Japanese POWs were constantly beaten, starved, and degraded by the Japanese soldiers. The men succumbed to the relentless brutality of the Japanese. Most lost all hope and numerous men became depressed.
In prison camp, he’d [Louie Zamperini] been beaten into dehumanized obedience to a world order in which the Bird was absolute sovereign, and it was under this would that he still lived (Hillenbrand 378).
The Bird, a particular barbarous and sadistic Japanese soldier, dehumanized Louie Zamperini the most. The Bird’s grueling punishments clung to Louie well after the war. The Bird tormented Louie and abused him so much that Louie had to beg him to get vital necessities.
Limping, sick, and hungry, he begged the Bird for work so he could get fill rations again (Hillenbrand 307).
The soldiers and guards at the camp controlled the mens life; they ultimately decided who succumbed to death and who lived. The prisoners were dependent on the Japanese. The Japanese guards were their main source of food, water, and medicine. The guards knew that the men were dependent on them, but they continued to tormented the prisoners. The Japanese acted brutally towards the prisoners because they were given a miniscule amount of power and they exploited it. They took over the prisoners lives, made the prisoners beg them for almost every necessity they needed. In all, the guards in The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Japanese soldiers behaved in the same savage ways. Both parties made their prisoners rely on them, became hostile and brutal towards the men, and dehumanized them. The guards for the experiment and the Japanese guards both convied sadistic, demoralizing, and ruthless behavior towards their inmates. The men made the prisoners feel like lesser beings, viciously attacked, and harassed the men. Both groups of men portrayed almost identical behaviors; even though they were in different situations and came from contrasting cultural backgrounds and customs. The Japanese were also infused with racism like the children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment.
In 1968, in a third grade classroom in Riceville, Iowa Jane Elliott told her classroom that people with brown eyes were better. Elliott then went on to say that people with brown eyes were smarter because they had more melanin; the pigmentation in skin, hair, and eyes that is responsible for the color. The children in her class were split up. They were given paper bracelets to identify their eye color. The brown eye students then started to gang up on the blue eyed students. Students with blue had now began to have troubles with topics that they once found easy. The next week the role was reversed, the blue eyed children were now smarter and better than the brown eyed children. By the end of the experiment, the children learned how it felt to be ostracized by people based on how much melanin they possessed. In Unbroken, the Japanese soldiers were filled with prejudice towards the …show more content…
POWs.
The Japanese, he [Nakajima Chikuhei] continued are the sole superior race of the world (Hillenbrand 49).
The Japanese soldiers were instilled with the thought that they were the best race in the world. This thought often came from political leaders of high stauter. War propaganda was also common, and depicted the Japanese as superior beings. This racism, and hatred and fear it fermented, surely served as an accelerant for abuse of Allied prisoners (Hillenbrand 201).
With the Japanese thinking that they were the superior race, it made it easier to beat the POWs.
The racism fueled the Japanese to lash out towards the prisoners in their camps. Their deep rooted hatred for any race but their own made it practically effortless for them to relentlessly beat the prisoners. The children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment and the Japanese both had racism instilled into them. The Japanese’s prejudices came from political leaders, war propaganda, and high ranked military leaders. While, the student’s racism came from their teacher, who instilled the thought into their minds. Both parties were trained to think and act out with racisms by authority
figures. The participants of the experiments and the Japanese soldiers displayed the same characteristics. The participants in the Milgram Obedience Experiment were told to shock students in the study if they answered the question wrong. Many participants shocked students because they were ordered to by authority figures. The Japanese tormented the POWs because they were ordered to by superiors. In both cases the men were following orders given to them from higher ranking authority figures. In The Stanford Prison Experiment, random college students were chosen to be guards and prisoners. The guards quickly became callous towards their prisoners. The Japanese became belligerent towards the POWs that were being detained in their camps. The prisoners in both situations became extremely dependent on the guards. The children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment, who were once innocent adolescents, became racist towards the other children in their class. The children were taught that brown eyes were superior to blue eyes and vice versa. The inferior children soon started to belittle the children with the eye color minority. The Japanese soldiers were told that they were the inferior race. The Japanese became racist against any other race besides their own; just like the children in the Blue Eye Brown Eye Experiment. The Japanese soldiers portrayed identical behaviors towards the POWs in their control, that the participants in the experiments illustrated.