The Man In The Well Analysis

How does having power corrupt people? Well having power gives people advantage of what they want to do and have power over people. The people in the “ Man in the well “ and the people from the “ The Stanford prison experiment “. I will be explaining how the power corrupted the people in both of these stories. The people both have people in the story that have power. In the story “ The Stanford Experiment “ the guards have power of the prisoners. And in “ The Man In The Well “ the kids had power over the man until the man knew all of there names.

According to the text the kids had power over the man because they was on land and the man was in the well and couldn't do anything. But they kept asking things and the man wanted them to go get …show more content…
They had to do the real life process of a guard and go to there house arrest them. So then the guards started to abuse them and they went almost started to go through deep depression. The prisoners started screaming, crying, and etc. Those are the stages. They guards took advantage of this because that’s how the simulated prison life worked in this part.

According to the text the kids in the story felt like they wanted to help the man but they didn't know what to do so they just came there every day asking questions. And then the kids didn't want to help the man down in the well. The author made this by like the kids teasing him about going to get help. So this is a lesson not to rease people when you need help.

So both storys have a problem about abusing there power by the kids lying to the man and the guards abusing the prisoners. So you dont ever want to corrupt your power because people face real big problems like depression and you don’t want that. Neither do they because that might be you one day and how would you feel if that were you being teased not good right. So dont abuse your power. If you have