To start off my paper I will be researching the milgram experiment, and another experiment called “ Would you fall for that?”. These experiments are showing how different people are put into different situations and how they would handle those situations. Same with the books Of Mice and Men and The Most Dangerous Game. As shown in the novel Of Mice and Men, humans do what they believe is right, however human’s decisions are often swayed by their peers. To try to figure out why we as humans make the choice to either listen to our peers, or do what we believe is right, I will be using the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men is a novel where two men, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers and good friends are headed …show more content…
This relates back to Of Mice and Men because of how George was under the control and being told what to do by a higher power and he had to obey even if it meant hurting somebody. A news reporter for ABC tried this experiment. In this experiment, an actor was in a different room behind a wall and the person who the experimenters brought in was behind the other side of the wall with a box containing different voltages on it. The person who was brought in for the experiment was told if the person behind the wall answered a question wrong they would have to send an electric shock to the person. As the voltage got higher and higher, the person who was being tested kept asking the reporter if they should continue because of the screaming and crying out that was happening. The participant kept looking back at the reporter to see if he could continue as he was hearing the screams in the background. He listened to the reported and countinted to a certain point. In Of Mice and Men, George is told that if you find Lennie you have to kill him as everyone set out to find him. George got to him first and contemplated it even knowing there would be