Wuthering Heights Pros And Cons
Wuthering Heights: Cops and Robbers
Philip Zimbardo, featured on a Democracy Now! Daily Show news segment hosted by Amy Goodman, conducts an experiment at Stanford University in 1971 to examine the psychological effects of roles in prison life. The requirements for participants: average, middle-class, intelligent, healthy, male college student. Out of the 75 applicants, 24 are selected based on their reactions to a succession of interviews and personality tests. The 24 college students selected are expected to spend 2 weeks in a secluded prison beginning August 14th and paid $15 per day (n.pag.). $15 is equivalent to $89.14 today (Inflation Calculator). Zimbardo has since reflected on the outcome, answering that “There were many results, but …show more content…
Prisoners in the Stanford Prison Experiment are ethically required to have the option to leave the experiment, but are nonetheless trapped because they are in a simulated prison with small cells. To quote the website Zimbardo and others designed, the “prison was constructed by boarding up each end of a corridor in the basement of Stanford's Psychology Department building. That corridor was "The Yard" and was the only outside place where prisoners were allowed to walk, eat, or exercise, except to go to the toilet down the hallway (which prisoners did blindfolded so as not to know the way out of the prison)” (n.pag.). Entrapment also occurs as a motif in Wuthering Heights. Predictably, entrapment can center around conflict. In chapter three, Hindley is trapped, displaced from the favorable son and brother: Heathcliff. Hindley fails to escape by trying to separate Catherine and Heathcliff, soon getting sent off to college (Bronte 43). Isabella was trapped by Heathcliff, a prisoner without a cell, unable to enter rooms: “he had the key of our room in his pocket. The adjective our gave mortal offence. He swore it was not, nor ever should be, mine” (Bronte
Philip Zimbardo, featured on a Democracy Now! Daily Show news segment hosted by Amy Goodman, conducts an experiment at Stanford University in 1971 to examine the psychological effects of roles in prison life. The requirements for participants: average, middle-class, intelligent, healthy, male college student. Out of the 75 applicants, 24 are selected based on their reactions to a succession of interviews and personality tests. The 24 college students selected are expected to spend 2 weeks in a secluded prison beginning August 14th and paid $15 per day (n.pag.). $15 is equivalent to $89.14 today (Inflation Calculator). Zimbardo has since reflected on the outcome, answering that “There were many results, but …show more content…
Prisoners in the Stanford Prison Experiment are ethically required to have the option to leave the experiment, but are nonetheless trapped because they are in a simulated prison with small cells. To quote the website Zimbardo and others designed, the “prison was constructed by boarding up each end of a corridor in the basement of Stanford's Psychology Department building. That corridor was "The Yard" and was the only outside place where prisoners were allowed to walk, eat, or exercise, except to go to the toilet down the hallway (which prisoners did blindfolded so as not to know the way out of the prison)” (n.pag.). Entrapment also occurs as a motif in Wuthering Heights. Predictably, entrapment can center around conflict. In chapter three, Hindley is trapped, displaced from the favorable son and brother: Heathcliff. Hindley fails to escape by trying to separate Catherine and Heathcliff, soon getting sent off to college (Bronte 43). Isabella was trapped by Heathcliff, a prisoner without a cell, unable to enter rooms: “he had the key of our room in his pocket. The adjective our gave mortal offence. He swore it was not, nor ever should be, mine” (Bronte