How does having power corrupt people? Having power can corrupt people in manys, such as what happen in The Well by Ira Sher and what happen in The Stanford Prison Experiment by Saul McLeod. In the article The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo had constructed an experiment to confirm what might cause a guard to have brutality against a prisoner and that’s just what Zimbardo had done. In the article it says, “Within hours of beginning the experiment some guards began to harass prisoners”. In other words began to take to much power over the prisoners.They were taking their power for granted and using it in a negative way to control the prisoners. In the article The Well these kids had found a man in a well. The man asked them to go
