Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast shadows before them. These shadows are then interpreted as
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“life” was not real‚ that a super computer was programming his thoughts‚ and experiences. All the humans were in this huge machine with their brains connected to a bunch of wires‚ and their thoughts were being inputted by the computer. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ there is a similar situation. In his description of the prisoners of the cave‚ the prisoners were chained down‚ and only able to look a wall. There was a fire behind them and shadows from other walking by were played out on the wall
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave World History Honors In reading the philosophical works of Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ I have come to the conclusion that he is trying to inform about education. In the writing‚ to me‚ the cave symbolizes that they basically have a daily routine with no variables. Another way of putting that is they live in the dark. The chains represent that they are bound by their own beliefs. The shadows represent a state of paranoia because they always feel like someone is
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Why am I here and how does the allegory of cave inform my answer? It’s quite challenging to relate an allegory to our lives. But if we think carefully and list those objects and their corresponded symbols: prisoners represent imperfect human‚ the shadow represents illusion of the truth‚ prison represents limitations that hold us back from getting close to the truth…etc‚ I start to understand that I myself could be the prisoner who lives comfortably in his narrow worldview and have difficulties taking
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In “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ there are people living in an underground den that have been there for their entire lives. There is a fire behind them and they can only see what is in front of them which are only shadows of objects. The people think that this is as real as it gets because they do not know any better. One man was taken outside of the cave. In the light‚ he saw real objects. He learns the truth that things are much more real than he previously thought. Then‚ he tries
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According to how Plato depicts prisoners‚ I think I am a prisoner. To begin I can say that Plato through his allegory illustrates how we are all prisoners in this world. He does that by comparing our lack of knowledge of what is real and what is not to his prisoners who knew nothing except the shadows of reality‚ and who believed what they saw as real. For example‚ at the beginning when Plato depicts the kind of prisoners he is talking about‚ Glaucon responds by saying that it is a strange
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Miller suffered through accusations of possibly believing in communism; as a result‚ he wrote a play called The Crucible‚ in which he used the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to explain the communist hysteria during the 1950s. Arthur Miller develops an allegory in The Crucible by comparing the Salem Witch Trials to McCarthyism by using ringleaders‚ persecuted couples‚ and hypocrisy in the government or legal system. Certainly‚ Miller creates a parallel using ringleaders such as Senator Joseph McCarthy
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of breaking out of the allegory in a cave‚ because once enlightenment was evident in the headache that is also known as Mathematics‚ one begins to understand how this headache of a process enlightens one to think logically and more cognitively in the revolutionized modern society; therefore‚ if an individual person connects the concept of “An Allegoric Cave” with the perception of reality‚ that individual will be able to find all truths in a world of perpetual lies. Allegory of the Cave starts off
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In the novel‚ ‘Of mice and Men’‚ John Steinbeck uses allegory to represent different themes and messages. An allegory is a story‚ poem or a picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. While reading Steinbeck’s book I noticed different metaphors such as the usage of animals and Curley’s wife. Throughout the whole book the reader can notice many animals mentioned such as rabbits‚ mice‚ the puppy and the old dog. Curley’s wife is also a sort of symbol. She represents the way in which
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Allegory of the Cave is a dialog between Socrates and Gloucon in The Republic written by Plato. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ Socrates depicts a long‚ dark cave with a small opening that allows a small amount of light to enter. Inside the cave there group of prisoners‚ who have been in the cave for their entire lives. The prisoners legs and necks are chained to the cave floor so they are unable to move and can only look forward at the cave wall. At the back of the cave there is a fire that they are
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