Ben Ross wants to show his students how Hitler could control Germany without people stopping him and also why people said that they didn’t know what happened during World War II. That is why he decides to make an experiment. I will explain how this experiment was successful.
Hitler built a totalitarian movement from which he was the leader. First, it is important to know that Hitler was elected by German population and consequently he became the Head of Germany legally. Germany was not in good health and Hitler promised a better world and people believed him. Hitler recruited new members for his party who obeyed him totally until he controlled everybody all around him.
Ben Ross begins his experiment a little bit as Hitler did during the World War II. First, he shows his students that with discipline we can have all what we want to. The success is not due to knowledge but to obedience to rules. If students have discipline, the world is better. In addition, he introduces a position with the body. His students look like all the same physically. After that Ben Ross does some exercises with his students. He wants first the students to organize themselves and secondly wants to put the students on the same level. He does not wish any loser any more. The students become robots and act militarily. We can say that Ben Ross introduces obedience. Obedience is the fact of obeying to an authority. Indeed there is a hierarchy. Here Ben Ross is the leader of his class as Hitler was the leader of Germany. Ben Ross is legally the teacher of his class, so he is legally a kind of leader for the class. The students accept that Ben becomes their leader and that is why they obey him. Ben Ross controls their mind and consequently he controls their actions. Next Ben Ross gives a name “the wave” to the class. The students are not themselves any more but the wave. In addition the wave has a salute. Ben Ross puts a mark on the