In Plato’s "Allegory of the cave" the believed perception of reality is portrayed through images of shadows on a wall‚ in a cave‚ where the only existence of reality is what is seen in front of one’s eyes. In today’s present-day the shadows still exist and are depicted in a different form of media through television‚ computers‚ movies‚ and ones personal cell phone. All which are a big part of our daily life. We all have a choice to accept the realities given to us and believe in the shadows created
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Plato’s parable. Why can’t they move their legs or necks to take a look around? What is the only thing they are capable of seeing? What is their only source of light? 14. What do these prisoners trapped in the cavern believe is real? 15. How do the prisoners react when they first see sunlight? 16. Why will the prisoner need time to adjust to the world outside the cave? 17. According to Plato‚ how would the people in the cave react to an escapee who tried to explain the truth to them‚ or who came down
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The ideas of Plato’s Allegory of the cave and The Truman show describe different views of life. In the Plato’s allegory‚ every person is a prisoner. they live in a world of shadows. what they think is true is not real.the Prisoners believe that their lives in the cave are what is real.The prisoner who escaped first comes back to explain to the other prisoners about the real world. They cannot believe him because they have never seen anything but the cave. Truman and Plato’s work are similar and they
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perceptions of reality. Focusing specifically on The Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix‚ there are many similarities between the questionable perceptions described in each story. In The Allegory of the Cave‚ Socrates paints a picture of a group of prisoners that have been confined to a dark
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When the freed prisoner was pulled “...suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?” The hero‚ or the freed prisoner‚ would have transformed with the knowledge that the special world exists. Thus‚ the freed prisoner not being able to adjust to home‚ or the ordinary world. Socrates believed that the journey to the special world
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from turning around their heads.” (¶ 1) When the prisoners are in the darkness‚ this symbolizes their ignorance and lack knowledge. Although there is always a way that leads to gaining knowledge‚ there are obstacles that prevent the prisoners from pursuing knowledge. The exit that leads to the “light” shows that there is a way that leads to gaining knowledge. The “legs and necks” being bound demonstrates the obstacles that are preventing the prisoners from pursuing knowledge which limits them to be
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Allegory of the Cave. In the cave there are men chained up facing the end of the cave. They can’t turn their heads either side and behind them are puppeteers statue like in front of the fire. Shadows are made by this and are pictured in front of the prisoners. They speak about the shadows as we do of our world. They call the shadows different names that we would call dogs‚ man‚ and horses. After a man breaks from his chain and turns around‚ bothered by the light of the fire can’t seem to tell what the
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attitudes as the punishments was overboard and inhumane. The prison of Bang Kwang was horrific and unpleasant. Fellow outlines the prison as claustrophobic due to a large number of prisoners being locked up together in a small cell. As there were too many people in a cell‚ ‘it stank of wounds and sweats’. Every morning prisoners were taken outside for five minutes to have a quick refreshing shower‚ however the water that was given was unclean and contaminated. ‘The water was filthy‚ siphoned from a nearby
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On March 24 1989‚a prisoner‚ john Stuart Gladwin who was in Fremantle Prison for armed robbery‚ was on sick parade at the Prison Hospital. At around 10 am a garbage truck paid its weekly visit to collect rubbish from the Hospital kitchen. The prisoners used a knife to overpower the driver and commandeered the truck. He’s driving the truck across the East Bank and rammed the metal gates in the south wall. On the fourth attempt He managed to break through by taking the gates partly off their hinges
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Intention - Direction to the Jury - Reasonable Doubt of Guilt - Criminal Appeal Act‚ 1907 (7 Edw. 7‚ c. 23)‚ s. 4. In a trial for murder the Crown must prove death as the result of a voluntary act of the prisoner and malice of the prisoner. When evidence of death and malice has been given‚ the prisoner is entitled to show by evidence or by examination of the circumstances adduced by the Crown that the act on his part which caused death was either unintentional or provoked. If the jury are either satisfied
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