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    The Soul of The World’s Home There comes a time in every individual’s life when they must choose to pursue their dream or “personal destiny” or ignore it until it fades away. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ the progantinst‚ Santiago‚ adopts the life of a shepherd so he has the opportunity to travel and leave his small home in Andalusia. Complacent with his way of life‚ Santiago unintentionally meets an old king who says Santiago must fulfill his personal destiny. Learning to speak the

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    According to the Plato’s allegory of cave‚ prisoners cannot move and see shadows reflected on the cave wall. However‚ the shadow the prisoners look at is not their real shadow. Instead‚ the shadow is created by puppeteers using fire behind the prisoners. Because the prisoners cannot move and look back to what is going on‚ they could see only the shadow itself and would believe what they look at is only true. In this case‚ Plato points out about nature education that people are living without knowing

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    Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave A Springboard For The Matrix Author: Dew Property of Dew’s Matrix Fan Page (http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/theater/9175) IMPORTANT: For those of who are writing Matrix papers for school and wish to use my site as a source remember that all the articles on this site are copyrighted. This means that you MUST list Dew’s Matrix Fan Page (http://thereisnospoon.moviefever.com or http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/theater/9175) as a source and site all references

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    were more than two and a half centuries apart‚ yet they had many factors that overlapped. Miller explains the McCarthy trials through The Crucible by teaching people’s fears‚ faults‚ and politics‚ making the text both a metaphor to the trials and an allegory. Both The Crucible and the McCarthy trials have many parallels. In both instances there was a climate filled with fear. As mentioned in the Background page of the test‚ since

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    In The Alchemist‚ Santiago is a young shepherd from a small town and has a dream about a treasure. He sells all his sheep and went in search of the treasure. Santiago is determined‚ courageous and curious to learn new things. As he follows his dream‚ he experiences a lot of difficulties‚ but also he learns a lot. If Santiago doesn’t possess these traits‚ he would never be able to fulfill his dream. Determination is one of the strongest traits that Santiago possesses. As a result‚ his parents

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    Allegory Melat Kiros Pd.7 1/15/2011 The American Revolution Allegory…Sequel! Yes‚ I’m sure you remember the 13 children from the original story but we’re now in the future and these kids are all grown up! They knew it would be extremely hectic if they had more than one child with their spouse so they all had just one. 13 only child’s with 12 other cousins. Pretty smart if you think about it. Anyway‚ these cousins all grew up with each other. No doubt about it they knew everything about

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    In particular‚ Plato’s Allegory of the Cave can be interpreted to be talking about the educational system. In this allegory‚ three prisoners sit staring a wall‚ in which they see shadows from puppeteers in the background. One day‚ one* of the prisoners is freed and forced to go outside to the real world. At first everything

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    Among all of the themes established in The Alchemist‚ the most relevant theme to the novel is the idea of one’s own personal legend. The story revolves around Santiago‚ striving to achieve his personal legend. He meets new people‚ faces hardships‚ and learns new things about himself and his personal legend on his journey. Santiago has many things that appear while he is on his journey. These things that appear help him to achieve his personal legend and they teach him new‚ valuable lessons about

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    In the story of “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ written by Plato found in his book The Republic. To sum it up‚ “The Allegory of the Cave” is about prisoners who are locked in a cave and who are forced to watch the shadows of everything that is happening outside of the cave. Surprisingly one prisoner is freed and dragged out the cave against their will. Eyes are difficult to adjust to the very bright light outside the cave. Once they adjust he sees life is more than just dark shadows‚ there are colors

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     pain‚ etc.‚ whether the threat is real or imagined. It has the capability to prevent people from pursuing their dreams. This is seen in the case of the crystal merchant‚ Santiago‚ and the camel driver. These characters are all from the story‚ The Alchemist. Some of my personal experience will also used to justify. There are many examples that argue that fear is a challenge to those who wish to fulfill their dreams in the story. The crystal merchant from Tangier is a victim of fear. He only wishes

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