Allegory of the Cave By Plato Socrates: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den‚ which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood‚ and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move‚ and can only see before them‚ being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance‚ and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will
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children are taught in a variety different styles. Some live within a singular uniform from the day they are born while others explore and connect all corners of the world in their lessons. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” discuss the influence that some of these various teaching methods have on an individual. Freire’s work names and describes two specific approaches which are referred to as the banking method and the problem-posing method. Similarly‚
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In The Hobbit‚ Bilbo helped his friends out of multiple sticky situations. His self-interest could’ve gotten the better of him at any time; he truly earned his status as a hero. When the dwarves and Bilbo were creeping through Mirkwood‚ they strayed off the path against warnings from Gandalf and Beorn. They were separated from each other‚ and Bilbo despaired over the fate of his friends. He dozed off‚ and when he came to his senses‚ he was nearly smothered in spider silk. He eventually killed the
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In Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ hidden symbols and allegories can be found throughout the play. The playwright uses words and phrases to emphasize their meaning‚ and possibly suggest different ones. The Scottish Play is rich with repetition and underlying meanings‚ as seen with several examples. As Macbeth learns in the play‚ murder causes repercussions beyond the conscious mind‚ and the blood spilled is at his own expense. Shakespeare uses the word blood to symbolize the permanent guilt felt
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HooooookThe Allegory of the Cave is an essay written by Plato. Plato was once a student of Socrates and many of his writings‚ including this piece‚ contains discussions and dialogues Socrates held between his students and Plato transferring his words into writings. Plato describes the idea to what it means to become enlightened and what it will take to reach enlightenment. In order to achieve enlightenment according to Plato‚ one must pull themselves up from the material world and climb up the ladder
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Upon reading the Allegory of the Cave‚ one can see that Plato is arguing the importance of defining the theory of what is really being seen versus illusions that we see and think are reality. In this play‚ prisoners are chained by their feet and necks so that they can not move their bodies or their heads‚ forcing them to look straight ahead at a stone wall. A fire is burning behind them and people are walking with sculptures across a platform in front of the fire‚ creating projected images onto
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The Hobbit: Chapter Seven-- Queer Lodgings 1. Why did Bilbo pinch the eagle? PG___ Bilbo was quite frightened while riding on the eagle’s back and no doubt was simply hanging on too tightly thus inadvertently pinching the eagle. 2. What announcement caused the dwarves to moan and Bilbo to weep? PG___ Gandalf‚the wizard‚ announced that he would no longer be able to accompany the party of adventurers on their journey. 3. According to Gandalf what are two possibilities explaining the
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Everyone has had to step out of their comfort zone sometime in their lives. It could possibly be another side to them‚ or they were simply forced to because they have terrible friends‚ if these people were friends at all. In The Hobbit the character Bilbo Baggins has left his wonderfully boring side and took on a much more lively and adventurous Tookish side in several situations. Bilbo’s Tookish side has been shown when the dwarves first made an appearance at his home‚ when he goes after the dwarves
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In the novel‚ The Hobbit‚ they are making a treacherous journey to a new terrain called the Misty Mountains. Bilbo and the dwarves could say there destination is unknown or ¨wild.¨ That is kind of what I felt the first day I attended middle school. There was many different things I had to do like learn my surroundings‚ cope with the new terrain‚ and had to tough it out. The first day of middle school was pretty rough because I didn’t know many people there. I knew none of the teachers and what
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A Deeper Look into the Cave True reality is not obvious to most of us. We mistake what we see and hear to be reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ in which prisoners sit in a cave chained down‚ and are forced to watch images of vessels‚ statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone cast on the wall in front of them. They have no other option but to accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images
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