Compare And Contrast Ishmael And The Weldt

Because people only live once, they desire a happy and successful life, in other words, a “good life.” To complete this goal of a good life, a majority of society will do nearly everything possible to be comfortable and be happy. The extremes, which people go to in order to achieve what they think is necessary, are merely shadows, or illusions of reality that are believed to lead people to a good life. However, according to the prominent Greek philosopher, Plato, the good life is one in which individuals are not entirely comfortable and happy. The good life is one in which they are finding the ultimate truth and becoming open-minded, sometimes forcing them to oppose the norms of society, and escape the shadows. Though it is hard to do, people who abandon the “cave” of false reality and misinterpretation will live a true good life. The people who have escaped the cave have enlightened themselves by thinking
In Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, The Truman Show by Peter Weir, and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, characters are depicted as ones attempting to escape this synthetic life inside of the cave. Through diction and action, the authors of these stories portray the good life as one dedicated to truly finding enlightenment in society. In Ishmael, David Quinn uses questioning and the denial of truth to find a good life of enlightenment. He uses a story about the Holocaust to emphasize the importance of enlightenment, which will lead people to a good life. “A story in which the Aryan race and the people of Germany in particular had been deprived of their rightful place in the world, bound, spat upon, raped, and ground into the dirt under the heels of the mongrel races, Communists and Jews. A story, in which, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Aryan race would burst its bonds, wreak vengeance on its oppressors, purify mankind of its defilements, and assume its rightful place as the