How Does Roger Use Power In Lord Of The Flies

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Human nature at its core includes having faults. This allows humans to grow through failures and promotes character development. This, concerning how power works, shows that power can only amplify what a person already was. Power doesn't change how someone acts or turns them corrupt, it just gives them the resources to do whatever they truly want. Power simply enables people to be more of what they already are deep down inside.

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There are many outcomes to situations that can be unpredictable, involving power. This, by itself, proves that power doesn't corrupt. By people using their power for both good and evil, it shows that the common occurrence isn't the power, but rather the people who use it. For instance, the article Power

Many examples of this are shown in the Lord of the Flies book. When given an opportunity to be powerful throughout the story, the author shows how the different characters react. Specifically, with the character Roger, as he is given power and his true self emerges in the end. Towards the beginning of the book, Roger was described as dark and secretive. He was mysteriously unapproachable to the others (Golding 60). Towards the end of the book, Roger's true colors were revealed and his mysterious and dark behavior didn't change until he got more power to act on his internal intentions. The book Lord of the Flies says "High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. ... The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. ... Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea" (Golding 180-181). Rogers' harmful actions can conclude that having access to power led him to do terrible things, but it also proves that he was always this way and when he got the power to do something he took it without

The experiments became popular when trying to understand what having power (in this situation the role of the guards) would do to a normal person. The article The Stanford Prison Experiment explains the experiment and its process. After running for 6 days, it revealed there was real danger of someone being mentally or physically harmed if it continued. The experiment was said to have proved that people easily conform to the social roles they are given (McLeod 2-3). This, however, can be proven wrong in many ways. According to the article, Power Doesn't Corrupt. It Just Exposes who People Really are, "The results were so shocking that a critical detail was overlooked: the students who showed up had been recruited to participate in a “study of prison life.” When psychologists ran an experiment to figure out what kinds of people were drawn to that kind of study, they found that volunteers for a prison study scored about 26 percent higher on aggression and belief in Social dominance, 12 percent higher on narcissism, 10 percent higher on authoritarianism and Machiavellianism than people who signed up for psychological studies in general" (Grant 2). This experiment was very insightful when showing how the data was skewed from the beginning. This proves that the power did not change who the people were, it just amplified