Escaping reality

of absolute truth and develops themes of ‘truth’ and ‘reality’. To begin with, why did Plato used prisoners in chains as characters? Pluto similitude us as the prisoners who are imprisoned in the cave. The dark cave appears as a virtual prison where we incarcerate ourselves. We, the prisoners are locked up with chains, which prevent us

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Now, I open with this because Einstein is trying to explain how reality is something that will always happen to some extent, but he’s also telling us how it is not a set-in-stone concept and how it can change and bend to either non existence or a new form. Reality is an imperfect idea. So, what then is reality? According to the accumulated definitions from the movies “Inception” and “The Matrix”, and Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Reality has the power to make someone feel on top of the world or as low as a dump. Everyone, at one point, has wanted to escape their reality simply just by thinking about living a different life or imagining their life was better than it really was by going out and blowing off steam. People shut out the world as a way to escape from dealing with the problems they have to face. Hubert Selby, who wrote Requiem For a Dream, and Louise Erdrich writer of The RoundHouse both wrote about how the characters

Does illusion and reality overlap because of some aspects of the truth in an illusion? Or is illusion entirely deceptive? One things for sure, there is a thin line between illusion and reality. Reasoning is essential for searching for knowledge and the truth, revealing the actuality of the reality one is living in. In The Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show, both illustrates the process of the main protagonists escaping their perception of reality to find the truth. Furthermore, The Allegory

them as the real object is concealed from them. These men are ignorant of the real world because they have no idea that there is something other than the reality shown in front of them, so they easily accept the truth in front of them. However, once a caveman escaped from the false reality, he would discover that there is in fact, the true reality that has been concealed from him, and this discovery makes him awed and he becomes excited to return to the cave to tell the other prisoners of this information

Fiction isn’t real. So why do people link it to their own lives? Fictional stories are the best way to depict universal themes that connect ideas like justice and courage; these ideas are presented in real life and allow the audience to learn about themselves through the characters. An idea that is present in fictional stories to which the audience relates to, is justice. In The Odyssey, Helios demands for justice to prevail for his cattle. In the text it states, '"Father Zeus, and you other everlasting

fire. Therefore, in reality the shadows that are seen by the prisoners are just an illusion. However, due to the lack of knowledge the prisoners believe these shadows are real. They assume this is the reality in their world.

Reality and Illusion Human life consists of different experiences that affect a person and their contacts. Society always expects something from an individual. The influences of society on personal decisions indicate that people need to exercise controls to avoid drifting from their realities. Human beings conceal truths in their lives to maintain a positive image in society. The desire to achieve influential status forces people to resort to unrealistic means of survival. Although an individual

Illusion vs. Reality A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams uses the constant battle between illusion and reality as a theme throughout his play A Streetcar Named Desire. Many use illusion to escape the reality they are living in. This theme is present in all of his characters in different ways. Each character is shown to live their life in either the way of illusion or reality. Harold Mitchell, also known as Mitch buys into Blanches illusions. He is overtaken by her charm, but in the

MANIPULATED PERCEPTION Generalising, all of our physical senses are stored as subconscious memories – the people, objects (even apparitions and the supernatural), etc. which may appear in our dreams are comprised of our knowledge of the external reality. Memory fragments are ubiquitous in all forms of cognitive processing – stored memories enable the brain to construct mental content. As a result, an individual’s perception will vary according to the memories and knowledge accumulated by the physical