I think that the story was very interesting because it is different than what I normally read or watch. Normally I would read a book about sports or something that interests me. This book made me wanna go out of my comfort zone and read something that I normally wouldn’t read because I found out that I like these types of books. There are a couple similarities between the movie and the book. One of them is that Cyloga sent his son to the whites.
Experiencing a new discovery leads to a better understanding of life. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, it explains how a group of prisoners are inside a dark cave looking at shadows believing it to be realistic; however, one prisoner gets free and leaves the cave and experience the outside world seeing real nature and the brightness of the sun and adjust to it. That person returns back to the cave to tell what he had experienced outside the cave to the other prisoners as the other prisoners would not listen to him and neglect his words. That person however cannot adjust to the darkness inside the cave once he got adjusted to the brightness of the outside world. Like Plato’s allegory of the cave, good living does require us to leave the cave.
There is an age-old desire within all of us to prove that are right – to prove that what we have to say is the truth – and oftentimes we will do whatever it takes to prove that fact. Whether it is the sense of pride we get when we realize we’re right or the pleasure we receive from correcting people and changing their ways, everyone wants to be told that they know a truth about something. Yes, we want to prove ourselves, but at what cost? At what point does our quest for a god-like and error-free existence become detrimental to the way we live and interact with those around us? It is not until we lose sight of the purpose of right and wrong as moral educational tools and begin to see them as a way to achieve superiority, that we fall into a
Action creates individualism. Throughout our live we have been told what to do. Some have taken the path less traveled and achieved great success, or have had miserable outcomes. In “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, a world is created analogous to society. In this he proves that painful understanding is better than blissful ignorance.
1) In the allegory of the cave, Plato’s main goal is to illustrate his view of knowledge. A group of prisoners have been chained in a cave their whole lives and all they have ever been exposed to were shadows on the wall and voices of people walking by. The prisoners in the cave represent humans who only pay attention to the physical aspects of the world (sight and sound). Once one of them escapes and sees the blinding light, all he wants is to retreat back to the cave and return to his prior way of living. This shows that Plato believes enlightenment and education are painful, but the pain is necessary for enlightenment and it is worth it.
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a story is told of chained prisoners in cave that can only see right in front of them. There’s a fire that burns behind them and they perceive only what shadows they see. These shadows were all they knew and to the prisoners these shadows were real. One prisoner breaks free and leaves the cave to which he discovers the blinding light of reality. The reality he and the other prisoners had their backs turned to.
“Allegory of the Cave” is what Plato thought about human perception. He believes knowledge is no more than an opinion that one believes is the absolute truth. I believe that “Allegory of the Cave” does relate to life today by our perceptions on different ideas. In the story, the prisoners knew to believe the shadows of the pots, statues and sculptures are real.
Socrates’s allegory of the cave in Plato’s Republic Book VII is an accurate depiction of how people can be blinded by what they are only allowed to see. The allegory does have relevance to our modern world. In fact, all of us as a species are still in the “cave” no matter how intelligent or enlightened we think we have become. In Plato’s Republic Book VII, Socrates depicts the scenario in a cave where there are prisoners who are fixed only being able to look at the shadows on the wall which are projections of things passing between them and the light source.
How does the story "The Machine Stops" echo the sentiments of Plato in "The Allegory of the Cave"? "The Machine Stops," The two main characters, Vashti and her son Kuno, live on opposite sides of the world. Vashti is content with her life, which, like most people of that world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas '. Kuno, however, is a sensualist and a rebel. He tells Vashti that he has visited the surface of the Earth without permission, and without the life support apparatus supposedly required to survive in the toxic outer air, and he saw other humans living outside the world of the Machine.
Plato’s Cave is philosophical and abstract while Coates’s Dream is direct and clear-cut. In Allegory Of The Cave, Plato talks about true knowledge: He’d have to get accustomed, if he were going to see what’s up above. At first, he’d most easily make out the shadows;and after that the phantoms of the human beings and the other things in water; and, later, the things themselves (Plato, 2, 516b).
Plato created the theory of The Allegory of the Cave in which prisoners are facing a wall that shows shadows and echoes cast by things they cannot see. The shadows that the prisoners see are made by people in front of a fire there is a parapet, however the prisoners think that the shadows that are being casted are real people. Plato created this idea to portray how humans are the prisoners and how we are controlled by society, media, and the government. He believes that once we break that bond with society we learn more about ourselves and reveal our true identity. Also the deeper we get away from society and the world the more we learn about ourselves and identity.
Searching for the truth is very challenging, as the world today entrenched in lies. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” briefly tells a story about cavemen being chained on most parts of their body, restring all movement including their head, since childhood. Then, he discussed the consequences inflicted onto the cavemen, specifically their perspective towards the truth after being chained for a long period of time in the dark cave, which resembles many events occurring in a person’s daily life. Based on the discussed effects, the author argues that human beings should always seek the real meaning of truth.
Plato used the allegory of the cave to illustrate his theory of forms or idea. The allegory is about several prisoners who have been chained up in a cave since they were children. They are all chained so that their legs and necks are immobile, forced to look at a wall in front of them. Behind the prisoners, there is a fire. Prisoners watch shadows projected on the wall of the cave from things passing in front of a fire.
Perception and reality have a complex relationship. One’s perception is not necessarily ones reality. Roberto Bolaños once said, “People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth” (Bolaño). People see what they want to see, whether it is the reality or not. Perception determines one’s reality; paradoxically reality is not determined by perception.
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the people think that their entire reality is the shadows that they see on the walls of the cave. Plato explores the truth and criticizes that humanity does not question what is real. Plato explores that the human understanding and accepting of what is real is difficult and
