(1) How would you relate the Stanford Prison Experiment to our discussions regarding politics, power, and authority? If people are given power, naturally the person will feel powerful. He will have authority, an appointed power in which gives the capability to do what they want. And this natural reaction to power to people is what reflected the results of the Stanford Prison Experiment. The guards are given complete authority from small to the vilest actions and the prisoners are the ones being oppressed. Then in the essence of the project the prison guards show what happens when people are given power to do things freely. A quotation from the experiment says that “If people are given power, then they have the capability to be evil” to overpower others and get the feeling they’re on top that they are higher and will have more authority. In relation to politics, power and authority is always at play. Afterall politics is the study of direction and contest of power. And we often