Essay On The Truman Show
Jim Carrey was the perfect actor to fit the goofy yet serious role needed for The Truman Show. With his combination of being naïve yet witty reflected Ken Bain’s ideas of being trapped in your mind. The only way to break out of that mental cage is to gain some sort of knowledge. The same way Truman yielded knowledge I have received an education in math that has allowed me to escape my own mind.
Being that Truman was born on the show everything was normal to him. As Truman lived out his life, which seemed very real to him, there was no way to find out that it was all a lie, because he did not know any better. It was always Truman’s dream to explore the world, but the corporation that “adopted” him always flattened his dream without him realizing it was their fault. That is the sole reason the show was able to go on for as long as it …show more content…
did. Without the ability to expand his horizons and go new places it was impossible for Truman to escape his mental prison.
Bain’s ideas of our neurological set up is a direct metaphor to The Truman Show.
He stresses the idea of broadening your views and social levels, to truly look through situations as if you were someone else (Bain, 66). He feels so strongly about this to say that if you do not branch out you may not ever genuinely breach your mental wall. Bain goes even deeper when proclaiming students, and people in general, need to realize their failures and mistakes in order to learn from them and see things from other perspectives (Bain, 68 & 69).
Approaching my own mental barrier was an easy one for me. Education had set me free from myself junior year of high school. It hit me in the middle of my physics class, when the motion, circuit, and friction equations all made complete sense to me. All these equations we learned that year applied to everything we do in life. Whether it was brushing your teeth or throwing a ball, it is all physics. Knowing all of that really opened up my mind and that class became no longer school to me but something I wanted to learn. That year was the time I figured out that being an engineer is a high
possibility.
The three elements are all clear cut metaphors of each other. Without acquiring any sort of education or knowledge of other views, a person would not be able to bust thru the sealed doors of our minds sensory input. While reading and watching during this assignment I am honestly excited to go forth with this new style of liberal education. I can’t wait for it to really develop my way of thinking into a whole other level I could not even imagine.
Being that Truman was born on the show everything was normal to him. As Truman lived out his life, which seemed very real to him, there was no way to find out that it was all a lie, because he did not know any better. It was always Truman’s dream to explore the world, but the corporation that “adopted” him always flattened his dream without him realizing it was their fault. That is the sole reason the show was able to go on for as long as it …show more content…
did. Without the ability to expand his horizons and go new places it was impossible for Truman to escape his mental prison.
Bain’s ideas of our neurological set up is a direct metaphor to The Truman Show.
He stresses the idea of broadening your views and social levels, to truly look through situations as if you were someone else (Bain, 66). He feels so strongly about this to say that if you do not branch out you may not ever genuinely breach your mental wall. Bain goes even deeper when proclaiming students, and people in general, need to realize their failures and mistakes in order to learn from them and see things from other perspectives (Bain, 68 & 69).
Approaching my own mental barrier was an easy one for me. Education had set me free from myself junior year of high school. It hit me in the middle of my physics class, when the motion, circuit, and friction equations all made complete sense to me. All these equations we learned that year applied to everything we do in life. Whether it was brushing your teeth or throwing a ball, it is all physics. Knowing all of that really opened up my mind and that class became no longer school to me but something I wanted to learn. That year was the time I figured out that being an engineer is a high
possibility.
The three elements are all clear cut metaphors of each other. Without acquiring any sort of education or knowledge of other views, a person would not be able to bust thru the sealed doors of our minds sensory input. While reading and watching during this assignment I am honestly excited to go forth with this new style of liberal education. I can’t wait for it to really develop my way of thinking into a whole other level I could not even imagine.