Before starting college being a stay at home mom would sometimes make me feel like a prisoner. Just like the prisoners in Allegory of the cave. The prisoners were limited to many life experiences as well as knowledge. I feel as if when you're a stay at home mom there's not much you do just a day by day routine. That involves cleaning, cooking, and nurturing your children most of the time. It can honestly get tedious and take a toll on you sooner or later it’s always good to have some kind of change in our routine. There so many things the world has to teach us but in order to do so we need to put yourself out there and discover them. Not just be trapped for years not knowing what the world has to offer us as an individual.
Imagine yourself sitting inside a dark, damp, cave where the only thing you can see are moving shadows on the cave wall in front of you. You can’t move anywhere or see anything besides the shadows, and these are the only things you’ve seen for your entire life, so these moving dark images are the most real things you’ve ever known. At some point in our childhood we were mentally in this state of darkness, we didn’t know anything about the world or have any complex thoughts. How then, were we brought out of our caves of darkness and misunderstanding? The Allegory of the Cave is a well known section of Plato’s
1.) "The Allegory of the Cave" - We often hear of various movements that are set out to try to protect our freedoms. We spend most of lives trying to defend our rights and keep ourselves liberated. However, how truly free are we? "The Allegory of the Cave" a story of prisoners in a cave , chained facing upward, by the legs and necks. They cannot move but their eyes are faced straight ahead at a wall. This wall is their world. They see the shadows of people, some carrying objects and others not. These shadows are all they know. Eventually, a prisoner is released and upon his release he finds himself in both physical and mental pain. He is now able to move his muscles and put them into work, this includes his logos(mind).
The general concept of education is for students to learn from their teachers. Students grasp ideas and info from their teachers in order to increase their knowledge. Students take knowledge from their teachers & try to memorize them so that they can increase their knowledge. In the excerpts, “Allegory of the Cave,” and Paulo Freire's “The Banking Concept of Education,” both philosophers believe in freedom in learning. In the article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr states that when people have their freedom with their education with technology, it can result to a disadvantage.
In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato argues that what we believe or see as the reality is often just a shadow of it. We seek the truth and find our own understanding. Angela Carter expresses her own interpretation of the truth in “The Company of Wolves,” by retelling the famous fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” In her version of the tale, the Little Red is no longer just an innocent and pure little girl who needs to be protected by others. Instead, she is a mature woman who knows how to use her sexuality to protect herself.
Iakovos Vasiliou, an associate professor of philosophy in Brooklyn College, once said “The only thing we know for certain is that nothing is certain.” This is the main philosophy behind both Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, and the renowned sci-fi movie “The Matrix.” Both works deal with escaping a false reality while unveiling a real one. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, the escaped prisoner synonymous to the character Neo in “The Matrix”, exhibiting a shared theme behind both plots. Socrates suggest that with effort, all that is beautiful and right can become visible or apparent to the prisoner, where as in The Matrix, Neo is called to a similar fate, under the premise that the zenith of existence for both the prisoner and Neo is enlightenment.
Although he wrote many works in his time, Plato 's most famous piece was The Republic. The philosopher created what we know as "the allegory of the cave." Plato once wrote, "How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?" (Plato) In The Truman Show, created in 1998, the man that controls Truman Burbank 's life says, "We accept the reality of the world with which we 're presented. It 's as simple as that." (Nichol) The allegory portrays mankind as prisoners. Said prisoners are chained up and forced to watch the shadows that are shown on the wall in front of them. Truman Burbank 's entire life was created for him. Even though he believes it to be a reality, Truman 's life is actually a show being broadcast all over the the world to millions of people. To many, The Truman Show is a more understandable take on The Allegory of the Cave. If this were in fact true, then it would surely explain the obvious ways that the two can be compared to one another as well as contrasted.
There are two types of people in the world: those who are able to think with a unique perspective and those who can only comprehend what is given to them. Philosopher Plato discusses the importance of questioning the accepted thoughts of the general population in his parable “Allegory of the Cave.” He presents the idea that closed-minded people are only puppets to their masters, the open-minded thinkers. Those who think from a unique point of view are able to live a better free life outside of the allegoric cave while the general thinkers are forced to be chained to the inside only to see their own shadows for inspiration. Plato argues that more people must think like the great philosophers in order to “go outside.” Since Plato was
Philosophers have always believed that gaining more knowledge is a must. To them, asking a question is a never ending process. One’s curiosity will lead him or her to intellectual freedom. Many people assume that their opinion is the only thing that matters. Plato on the other hand believes how any individual is capable of seeing and accepting others’ perspective. He exemplifies this idea through his work called “Allegory of the Cave.” In this piece, Plato depicts the concept of people limit themselves from intellectual freedom. I strongly agree with his ideas because anyone can make a decision for themselves. In today’s society, people tend to stay in their comfort zone and disregard other possibilities in the world. They misinterpret shadows from reality because they choose to be ignorant.
“The Allegory of the Cave” is a philosophical writing presented by a Greek philosopher named Plato. The story lead us to explore about the truth of nature and how people perceive the truth. Plato likens us and the world around us to the prisoners in the cave. By using symbols of characters, set and actions, he tries to disclose his allegorical meaning. As story goes on, Pluto reveals his belief on existence of absolute truth and develops themes of ‘truth’ and ‘reality’.
Truth is an abstract concept by which mankind bases all knowledge. It is information that we believe to be indisputably and undeniably accurate. Yet how can we ever prove such information to be true? What about the “truths” that cannot be measured? To insist that something is objectively true is to maintain that it is always true outside of one’s beliefs or perception. However, our experiences, perceptions, and emotions all differ from those of others, and yet we still know them to be a definite truth. That is because in reality, all of the apparent truths that we know, or believe to know, are completely subjective.
An allegory is a kind of story in which writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story. One of the most important allegories ever to be gifted to humankind is Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most potent and pregnant of allegories that describe human condition in both its fallen and risen states. The Allegory of the Cave is Plato's explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. It is also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave. It is written as a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and Plato's brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII of The Republic.
Plato was a famous Greek philosopher who was taught by Socrates, another famous philosopher. Plato told an interesting story, one that is referred to as the cave allegory. The story would appear to be simple, but it is riddled with deep symbolism and lessons. In this story, there a group of prisoners who live in a cave. They are shackled to a wall their backs are turned from the light and all they can see are the shadows on the wall. The only light they ever see is the moon, but they cannot face the sun. One day someone came down to the cave and pulled one prisoner out of the cave. The prisoner kicked and screamed, he was afraid of facing the light. But once he was out there he was amazed at all the figures and magnificent things he had missed out
In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes how some people only see shadows of reality. Plato believes knowledge can only be true, if people gain it through philosophical reasoning. Marcus in, Freedom Writers, attends a school that feels like a prison to him and other students. His language arts teacher, Mrs.Gruwell, tries to understand how the students feel. Marcus becomes inflamed by this and says, “stop trying to understand us.” He says, “when you die for your own you die with respect.” Then his teacher says, ”when you are dead nobody will care about you.” These words sank into Marcus heart. Then Mrs.Gruwell makes the class play a game called the line game. Close to the end of the game, Marcus realizes how much he has in common with his classmates. He also realizes what Mrs.Gruwell was trying to teach him.
I had an experience that each represents the symbol towards the Allegory of the Cave. My childhood was mostly in Jamaica where I lived with my father for two to three years. I can relate to the symbols from the "Allegory of the Cave".
“Allegory of the Cave”, written by Plato, is story that contrasts the differences between what is real and what is perceived. He opens with Glaucon talking to Socrates. He has Glaucon imagine what it would be like to be chained down in a cave, not able to see anything other than what is in front of him. He tells a story of men that were trapped in a cave and were prisoners to the truth. These prisoners have only seen shadows. But because of their ignorance, these slaves to the cave believe that the shadows are real. The story goes on to say that one of the men has been dragged out of the cave. He is not happy to see the real world, yet upset because he is being taken