In Plato’s “Allegory of a Cave”‚ he depicts an area where prisoners live chained in a cave. All they see are shadows casted on the wall and these shadows shape the prisoner’s reality. One of the prisoners then escapes the cave. Initially‚ he is blinded by the sun and the reality of the new world. He can now see beyond the shadows. Over time‚ he recognizes that his life has been controlled by others and now knows the truth. Nonetheless‚ “Allegory of the Cave” can be perceived in several different
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Katterina Horton LA 10 Mrs. Rutha 6th October‚ 2014 Metamorphosis Alternate ending As he lay there on the floor in his empty room on his crippled‚ fragile‚ insect molded body‚ he heard the sound of the front door slam and the family vehicle speed out of the driveway. Gregor leaped up in a panicked‚ stunned state and stood in perfect stillness on his hind legs. A gleaming‚ bright ray of sunlight caught his eye through the crack of his door. Gregor slowly guided his way toward his door in agonizing
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Metamorphosis is an illustrious short story‚ which manifests Kafka’s complex character‚ his beliefs‚ and real-life dilemmas. It highlights the existentialist credo by elucidating the quandaries faced by an individual in the face of absurdity. Kafka critiques the impersonal and materialistic society around us‚ which mitigates individualism‚ restricts freedom‚ and engenders alienation. A whirlwind of redundancy and absurdity pose Gregor with an identity crisis. Initially‚ his individuality is tethered
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The last paragraph of Kafka’s reading metamorphosis discreetly suggests that the family’s emotions aren’t as they read‚ but they will travel to the edge to find a successful prospect to lead for the future. The opening sentence reads “then the three of them altogether left the flat‚” pg. 241 this section of the sentence has a deeper meaning than the Samsa’s just taking off from their home and going to the park as the sentence follows up . As I read this opening sentence the word “flat” stands out
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caring anymore about physical attraction. After all stages‚ the boy will ultimately come to loving beauty itself and all beautiful things. This gradual climb to the final vision is similar to the climb out of the cave in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave." In the "Allegory of the Cave‚" the chained down prisoners are limited with their perception on reality. At first‚ they can only see moving shadows on the wall in front of them. Once released‚ the prisoners’ sense of reality is changed as they can
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“The Allegory of the Cave” The Allegory of the Cave can be broken down in many ways. It basically states that people are chained to the wall in a cave and they have nothing to look at but the shadows of one another. This is all that they know of that exists; no one has ever been outside the cave. We have to look real hard for the hidden messages or what the author is trying to allude to in this story. I think the main point of this story is the author trying to give us an example of how or the
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Homer demonstrates Life’s journey in several different situations. These situations are lead by actions that reveals an example of karma and how people don’t always get what they want. An allegory implies that even when a reward is as precious as Penelope‚ people do not always get what they want. An allegory also illustrates how when advices are ignored and continuously do wrongdoings‚ punishments occur. The suitors get frustrated and causes these actions because they want nothing else other than
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reason‚ people that do not follow all this guideline and societies code are often left out and alienated from the rest. The actions of rejection‚ even the slightest ones‚ can leave people with serious and deep psychological damage. In the book “The Metamorphosis” Gregor was set apart by his own family because of the disgust they felt towards his appearance when he turned into a bug. This led to gregor’s feelings of solitude and the neglection from his family‚ later on being one of the causes of his death
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The movie The Matrix has many similar themes and differences to “The Allegory of the Cave”. The Matrix is about a man named Neo‚ he believes that he’s a normal man with a normal life but then he is contacted by a man named Morpheus. Morpheus exposes Neo to the truth that his world‚ where he is just regular Tom Anderson is made up. The Matrix‚ was created by sentient machines that subdue the human population‚ while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Neo is reluctant
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Allegory of the Cave Summary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents an enthralling concept that holds strong to this day. In the allegory three main ideas are illustrated : that we have been conditioned to a definite reality since birth‚ we scorn being brought into the ‘light’ of knowledge‚ and that we (as a society) reject anything that contradicts the notions of our preconceived reality. Clever Plato took these ideas and weaved them into an intriguing story of prisoners trapped in an underground
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