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    we call reality is actually a mere shadow play on the wall‚ projected from behind our backs by persons carrying statues of humans and animals and carved likenesses of other ordinary objects before a fire that is behind them." (Rice‚ pp. 79) This allegory is attempting to simplify the ideas of forms and the reality of what is perceived as real. The prisoners in the cave are those people who have not achieved a philosophical understanding of forms‚ so they remain affixed by the shadows. The shadows

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    Avatar Allegory By: Brian L. H. Alderson Don’t you think that the movie Avatar is very similar to how the pilgrims treated the native Americans? The movie Avatar is an allegory to how pilgrims treated the native Americans because of what took place and where it happened. When the movie opened up into its exposition‚ it mentioned the planet Pandora‚ which was inhabited by these natives called the Na’vi who use bows and arrows which seemed just like how the native Americans were when the pilgrims

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    Plato Allegory of the Cave

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    Compare the film ‘the matrix’ with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads

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    Lion For Lambs Analysis

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    that the protestors were in fact supporting terrorism. Contrary to the majority opinion‚ Lion for Lambs is composed of three individual storylines‚ hoping to expose the truth of America’s current political stance but just fallin short to allow space for the liberal judgement of the audience . American politicians’ penchant to control mass media is not a shocking revelation. Jasper Irving‚ a Senator in Lions for Lambs is no exception. When “the future of the Republican Party” calls on TV journalist

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    What Plato is trying to teach with The Allegory of the cave is that things that we learn through the senses are not always the truth and people are too close-minded to try to see things in a different light. In Plato’s theory the cave represents that people believe that only things you can see or hear are true or real. The cave shows how these people are trapped in there misunderstanding of reality. The Shadows represent the mistruths presented as reality in the world. The game represents that people

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    Thus‚ it is understandable that the witch trials in the Massachusetts area would become such hysteria. Though many historians have attributed the cause of the Salem Witch Trials to economic instability between the thriving seaports and the languishing agriculture and the political struggle between the highly patriarchal society and the independent women who started to defy the status quo of women‚ these are not the most compelling cause of the Salem Witch Trials. Through the system of the trials

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    publishings of the novel. In the preface‚ Wilde states the importance of beauty and art but then contradicts himself by saying “All art is quite useless.” However‚ it has been suggested that the story is actually an allegory critiquing the loose morality of aestheticism. To put it briefly‚ an allegory is a story

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    and gripping story‚ through the detailed descriptions of punishments‚ settings and characters‚ the poem ultimately serves an allegorical purpose by depicting one man’s desperate journey from confusion and depression to salvation. In essence‚ an allegory is a story with both a literal and symbolic meaning. While Dante tries to escape hell‚ Alighieri basically

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    Daniela Y January 11‚ 2015 E3-15 The Male Dominant Image In his play The Lion and the Jewel‚ Soyinka expresses his opinions about society through his characters‚ as many authors do in their writing. One of the characters‚ Baroka‚ frequently seeks to take more wives despite his age and subjects his current wives to humiliating tasks such as plucking his armpit hairs and tickling

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    Plato's Cave Allegory

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    Plato’s cave allegory was an exceptional way of thinking in the time of about 400 B.C. Since this concept was so ahead of Plato’s time‚ the cave allegory broadened horizons for many people living an average life. This story opened up minds and intrigued almost every person to think about more than just their everyday experiences and to bring into perspective the knowledge that can be obtained in their massive world. This allegory has been used to create a masterful variety of entertainment in the

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