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    force you to clean your sleeping area‚ like the cell bars‚ the toilet bowl‚ make your bed‚ and fold the seat and table against the wall. Secondly when you are done cleaning your cell area then the second morning whistle blows‚ which means that all prisoners have to exit their cells when the warden or lieutenant say to. When they say to exit your cell then the inmates are counted. The inmates are counted thirteen times a day and sometimes even more. After you have finished all of these‚ you work all

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    of life” (Goffman‚ 1961:11). In other words‚ a total institution is a place where the residents live in isolation from society. This essay will draw into South African prisons as a total institution‚ how it governs and shapes the social life of prisoners. Institutions guide what we do and our social guidance that governs the behaviour of communities together with societies. An example of institutions would be open and closed institutions. “An open institution is defined as a system in exchange of

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    of the cave‚ it allows one to go in depth and be able to see a visual interpretation of the divided line of which Plato describes earlier in the text. The allegory begins with four prisoners chained in the bottom of a cave since birth‚ unable to move and only able to look at the wall ahead of them. Behind the prisoners is a long entryway in which there is a raging fire. From time to time people come forth and hold statues

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    Spoon- The whole idea of the labor camp is to destroy the idea that everyone is different in the camp. The guard’s ultimate goal is to make all the prisoners feel equal‚ no matter what their rank was before entering the camp. This uniform idea of having everyone the same is why Ivan feels so unique. He always keeps the spoon in his boot after every meal without anyone knowing. b. Alyoshka- This character

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    Allegory of the Cave and Fahrenheit 451 Comparison Montag – Chained Prisoner Montag is represented as a chained prisoner because he is part of the society. The society is represented as the other prisoners. The chained prisoners can only look one way and can’t move his body. This is reflected on Montag’s society by how they all think the same way. Clarisse – Freed Prisoner Clarisse is the one who is the rebel of the group of prisoners. She tries to go out and learn about the things. “I’m seventeen

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    Allegory of the Cave Plato’s Allegory of the Cave brings about many question compared to Christianity. He depicts a group of prisoners in a cave chained and unable to move. The only thing they can see is shadows cast upon the wall by their guards. The rationalism in this is very confusing but based on Christianity many of us are prisoners of the world we live in and are kept here by the others around us and are unable to see the truth of the word of Christ because of all the illusions

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    the fire and the prisoners there is a wall meant for objects to pass. Because of their limited vision (lack of movement)‚ those men can only see their own shadow and the shadow of different sculptures that pass over the wall‚ which are carried by other men they can’t see. One of those prisoners is released and starts walking around the cave. He is very confused by what he sees but finally he realizes that the shadows are just a representation of what is really there. The prisoner is forced to go out

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    the patrol come across the Japanese prisoner. At the start of the play‚ Bamforth obviously dislikes the Japanese. When the patrol first captures the Japanese prisoner‚ Bamforth is the only one (apart from Mitchem and Johnstone) who is willing to kill the prisoner. Bamforth says BAMFORTH: "It’s only the same as carving up a pig." He would be ready‚ standing up Bayonet in hand‚ feeling for the right spot to enter the bayonet into the prisoners body. This quote shows that when

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    “Allegory of The Cave” by Plato‚ a prisoner gets out of the cave that he has been imprisoned in his whole life and see’s the real world as it really is. I went through a similar situation when I decided to move out on my own and left my “cave” into the real world. “Behold! Human beings living in an underground den‚ which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood” (page 1). The prisoner in the allegory of the cave has been

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    Plato’s piece of writing. For example‚ the chain holding the prisoners up where they can only look in on“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a story that formats like a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. Plato writes about Socrates describing a cave with prisoners that have been there since birth. The prisoners had their legs and necks chained behind a wall‚ where they could only see what was in front of them. Behind the prisoners‚ there’s an opening to the outside world. Also‚ there is a fire

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