Synthesis Essay

The essay, “The Perils of Obedience,” by Stanley Milgram, proves through consistent experiments that very few people can resist orders that come from authority figures. Diana Baumrind, author of “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” criticizes Milgram on a few situations involved with the experiment that she disagreed with. Milgram performed the experiment to research the amount of people who obey or disobey authority, and if they obey, how far they actually go before realizing they could be causing serious harm to an innocent person. Baumrind points out the important subjects in Milgram’s essay and shares her views on them by explaining why he is wrong.
Baumrind claims that the experience the subjects were involved in was very traumatic and emotionally disturbing. Milgram states that the subjects were spoken to in ...