Jeff Bliss Vs. The Perils Of Obedience

Max Serna
M. Williams
English 1A
August 26, 2013

Jeff Bliss stood up to his class teacher because she would not teach the class properly, she would not put any effort into her teaching according to Jeff, and she had not interactions with the students whatsoever.  Jeff spoke on behalf of the entire class when he stood up against the teacher, his purpose was to make the teacher realize that she needed to actually do more than just hand out packets of work for the students to complete.  In addition she had to show the students she actually cared about their educations and their future so they could be successful in life.  In "The Perils Of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram, an experiment is being made using two people, the learner and the teacher.  The learner is a subject who has to memorize a group of words and then say the second word in that group, for everyone he gets wrong he must receive a shock from the teacher who is controlling everything from a room.  The Experimenter is telling the teacher what to do, even though they are inflicting pain on the learner they are forced to obey the Experimenter since he has the most authority.  One teacher, Gretchen Brandt sees that the learner is having a really hard time answering and has a heart condition, she then asks the Experimenter if she may stop because she does not want to be responsible for the death of the learner.  She is told to keep going, but she refuses, its ongoing until the Experimenter calls of the experiment.
The relationship between these two situations is that both Bliss and Brandt stood up to the person who had a higher authority than them to make a point.  Bliss's point was that the teacher had to make a better effort to teach the students, while Brandt's point was that she was not going to keep going with the experiment and be held responsible for the learner whom she and the Experimenter both knew had a heart condition.  Both disobeyed to reach what they wanted.