The Unexamined Life Imagine waking up in a world that does not exist. Always being told that this happened, but it actually did not. The film, The Island, displays how as humans anything will be done to survive. Lincoln Six Echo is just like everybody else—he wants to go to the Island, the only safe place left on earth where life can actually live. Thousands of humans have survived the contamination of the outside world and are now living inside this facility safe from being contaminated. Their only hope is to win the lottery now and be placed on the Island for the rest of their life. It almost sounds like a paradise, until Lincoln Six Echo discovers that there are sinister actions that go one after the calling of the lottery. Soon he fathoms the idea that there is no Island. Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta …show more content…
Socrates believed that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta examine their lives and how they want to live them. Without examining their lives, Lincoln and Jordan are stuck inside the fake world. They are just an insurance policy for people out in the real world. The agnates have no clue what is actually happening in the outside world other than the contamination. Lincoln begins to examine his life and the environment he is in. He realizes that the Island is a fictitious place. Once they discover that the Island does not exist, they do everything in their power to change the inevitable. He picks up on clues that the lottery is the problem and a way to kill the people. As he inspects deeper into his society, he realizes how life can be if he can live in the real world. Lincoln and Jordan reach the real world and try to right what is wrong with what Dr. Merrick is doing. If Lincoln and Jordan stay and do not examine their life, their life is truly not worth