In Stanley Milgram's experiment, The Memory Project- effect on punishment on learning, the concept of staging in terms of what is real and not real in relation to the photographs objects and subjects, which is conveyed through the facilitator and the learner parallels Sontag’s concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave, and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Thus it is interesting to note the relationship between Milgram with Barthes and Sontag in terms of their ideas on photography and his experiment. The facilitator and the learner staging of the experiment distance itself from the teacher's perception of reality, similar to how Sontag does in terms of staging and Barthes in the theater.
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