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    People’s perception on reality is not always true. Those are mistaken for ideas they believe is reality. This is what Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” was based on. According to the text‚ the prisoners are sitting in a cave‚ chained from their legs to their neck so they cannot move. The prisoners are watching images cast on the wall with fire blazing above and behind them. They cannot grasp true reality‚ which are shadows intentionally made by men. They were forced to have one idea; and if anyone tried

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    Thoughts on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The allegory of the cave that appears in Book VII of Plato’s Republic is a well-known text for good reason: it is a brilliant allegory on the nature of the human condition in its relationship to knowledge‚ and it forces the careful reader to reflect on Plato’s implications about different kinds of knowledge. For the Greek philosopher Plato‚ the true reality exists in the world of ideas‚ a world that is invisible

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    western philosophy. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is taken from his work‚ The Republic. He uses the metaphorical situation where people are chained so their movements are restricted in a cave. They have never seen anything but the shadows of people projected on the wall. For these prisoners shadow is a reality; for us‚ their perspective on nature is very narrow. The shadow represented only one side of the picture‚ a false idea about reality. Plato communicates the allegory with the objective of education

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    Breaking Free of the Cave “The Republic”‚ Plato’s longest work‚ has many views about philosophy and characters within and there is one character that truly stands out and entices you to read on until the very end; that was Socrates. Socrates was a mentor and a friend of Plato’s and in Plato’s eyes‚ he was a great and wise Philosopher that was a martyr for philosophy. Within “The Republic”‚ Plato has written a symbolic account about one of Socrates’ teachings of education or the enlightenment

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    representation. Initially‚ I will talk about what Socrates considers reality and what he considers not reality and why art and poetry are only a representation. Next‚ I will discuss how The Allegory of Cave relates to this definition of reality‚ diving into the significance of light in this essay‚ and then relating this allegory back to representation. Thirdly‚ I will discuss what the theory of forms is and how it applies

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    Unit 2 Plato’s “Allegory” Assignment Your Name Here Kaplan University HU250 – 08 In the book The Republic‚ Plato through “the Allegory of the cave” makes a difference between illusion as a truth and the truth as a reality. In that scenario‚ Plato used the cave‚ the flame‚ the shadow‚ the sun and the return to the old “world” to demonstrate: That knowledge comes from what we see and hear in the nature‚ it uses the cave as the hotbed of misunderstanding. He believes that the shadow seen in the wall

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    In the dialogue‚ Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave‚ in which some people are kept. These people have been in the cave since their childhood‚ and each of them is held and chained‚ so they can’t move their legs and necks. They forced to look at a wall in front of them‚ and behind them there is a fire. Also‚ there are another people behind

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    story “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are limited in their similarities. Even though the similarities are few‚ what is similar provides a big punch because of the deeper meaning in these works. One major thing the stories have in common is that both stories are allegories. An allegory is a work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning‚ typically being moral or religious based. The flock from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the remaining prisoners from “The Myth of the Cave” have many similarities

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    Heart of Darkness Essay Light and dark imagery is one element most commonly used in literature‚ and has held specific symbolic meanings for hundreds of years. Simply stated‚ light generally symbolizes good‚ while darkness symbolizes the complete opposite‚ evil. More specifically‚ Conrad uses detailed imagery of light and dark to show that white men can in fact be more savage than the natives. While the contrast of light and dark‚ white and black‚ and good and evil is a common theme in his novel

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    The immortality and blindness to a dark continent Joseph Conrad’s s novel “Heart of Darkness” portrays an image of Africa that is dark and inhuman. Not only does he describe the actual‚ physical continent of Africa as “so hopeless and so dark‚ so impenetrable to human thought‚ so pitiless to human weakness”‚ (Conrad 2180) as though the continent could neither breed nor support any true human life. Conrad lived through a time when European colonies were scattered all over the world. This phenomenon

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