Shawshank Redemption” portray the effects of prison life including the rising and the falling of certain prisoners‚ along with the friendships and connections made. Along with the film and the novella‚ “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather and “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato share similarities with King’s novella. Each prison has its leaders and its followers‚ but Red seems to be one of its leaders‚ soon to follow—Andy Dufresne. In the beginning of the film‚ the new prisoners are being brought in by a small
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The Matrix‚ directed by The Wachoski Brothers‚ and the “Allegory of the Cave‚” written by Plato‚ portray how Neo and the prisoner both experience what is known as the real world‚ in their particular story. The two main characters evolve and change‚ as the stories progress. They are transitioned into places they would never imagine themselves going to and living in. The Matrix is a modern adaptation of “Allegory of the Cave” because Neo and the prisoner in the beginning are oblivious to their surroundings
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Plato and Niccolo Machiavelli magnificent ideologies for leaders of the world. First Plato’s dialogue Allegory of the Cave described what would happen if prisoners were chained to a wall and could only see the shadows before them. The shadows were visuals on the wall from the fire blazing behind them. Plato stated a quote about what would happen if those prisoners were to be released out of the cave? His reasoning for this was to produce what the human natures method is of gaining knowledge. Then
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In "Allegory of the Cave"‚ Plato in all ways sets up in description the truth as being a higher plane of enlightenment than is achieved by the normal man. By describing it as the "light" and the alternative to truth as a form of "captivity"‚ he sets up the prisoners below as being chained to their weak ideals. In a demeaning tone he speaks of how the chained men have contests among themselves to pick out quickly what they believe to be reality‚ but which is only a shadow‚ as is everything they see
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Allegory of the Cave/Truman Show Limited Knowledge‚ truth (or revelation)‚ reality‚ and idealism are some of the common themes expressed in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the film “The Truman Show.” The differences can be found in the way Plato allows some of the prisoners to remain unknowing‚ by giving them an almost fear-like stance involving the truth of their world‚ and how to free themselves. Another is that the “false” world is created on different premises‚ either to create a safe an
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What does Socrates mean when he says that “an unexamined life is no life for a human being to live?”. As I read Plato’s Apology‚ Euthyphro and The Allegory of the Cave‚ I could sense two things about unexamined life. First‚ unexamined life means someone who lives in self-reflection such as sin‚ guilty‚ and self-examination. According to Socrates‚ for living life‚ the most important one is that should be analyzed and explore the mind itself. One of an important thing‚ self-reflection of our inner
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people. Some people give the straight forward answer saying that they have always wanted to go to a certain place in the view of their own personal interests‚ but there is a deeper definition as to why that individual is at that school. Plato’s allegory of the cave shows two different stages of education and how they are still present today. Now the question changes and is asked towards me‚ why am I at Concordia college? I first heard of Concordia through one of my baseball coaches who told
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helped Athens thrive however‚ there were many individuals who disagreed with the ideas of democracy. Throughout Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and the Crito‚ many different ideas of free speech surfaced and soon these different texts became very important artifacts relating to free speech. Although Aristophanes and Plato both value free speech within a democratic society‚ they both propose different arguments in support of its exercise both having different things to say
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allegorical epic was written by Dante Alighieri who was born in Florence‚ Italy in 1265‚ to a moderately wealthy family that had a history of involvement in the remarkably complex Florentine politics. Dante Alighieri included much of his personal life and his own views of the politics of the late thirteenth-century Florence as he was writing The Divine Comedy. As a result‚ The Divine Comedy is somewhat of an autobiographical work of Dante Alighieri’s own life. In the Inferno‚ Dante is lead through Hell by
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Plato believe that knowledge gained through sense is just an opinion or perception that one may have. I agree‚ in order to understand someone or something‚ such as facts‚ information‚ or skills‚ which these all are developed through experience or education by perceiving‚ discovering and learning. Pluto described a prisoner being stuck and living inside of a dark cave. He was completely oblivious to the outside world and could only identify
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