Piggy's Disappearance

A famous World War II Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, once said “For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing”. This shows that complacency can be just as harmful as committing the act itself. When people ignore the good inside and begin to believe that bad things are ok, just because other people are doing them, it make evil run rampant. This is evident in World War II, people knew that prosecuting Jews was wrong, but everyone else was doing it and it provided them a false sense of security. If they harmed someone else, maybe they would be spared, maybe they could avoid the gas chambers. This type of group mindset in a hard situation can and did cause problems for the country, as well as the victims of the persecution. This
They are the ones that are presented to be “the good guys”. Similarly, in Dittmann’s article it shows that previously innocent people are turned to violence when introduced to peer pressure. It causes them to act in a way that they normally would not act. Piggy and Ralph are characters in the book, always trying to keep order and make sure that everyone is pitching in and doing what they are supposed to. They are the ones that work the hardest to try and get off the island. When the island splits into two groups, Piggy and Ralph vs. Jack and the hunters, they decide to go try and talk to the other group. At first, they are horrified by the savage ways of this other group, but as the night wears on they “[find] themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They [are] glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable” (Golding 2). This “demented but partly secure society” was one that played games about killing a pig. They made chants about killing and blood, and Piggy and Ralph want to be a part of it. They are put in a bad situation, everyone there was a bit scared, the group “hemmed with terror” and Piggy and Ralph were no different. For a moment their fears were not noticed. Golding uses language to describe this “fence” of boys that makes them feel secure. Having everyone around them doing the same thing made the fear not so prevalent. Even when they know that this is not something that they should partake in, it made them feel safe. This depicts that a bad situation can turn people into someone they are not. Similarly, in Dittmann’s article, the Stanford Prison Experiment was explained and investigated in great detail. Many psychologists found that “institutional forces and peer pressure led normal student volunteer guards to disregard the potential harm of their actions on